19 May 2022 Financial new sources confirmed last week that Standard Chartered and Barclays have funded Adani Enterprises, the Adani Group subsidiary pursuing several new thermal coal mining projects, including the disastrous Carmichael mine in Australia. The US $250m...
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Vanguard’s farcical engagement with coal miners Adani, Whitehaven and New Hope exposed
12 May 2022 Global investment management firm Vanguard recently released its 2021 Investment Stewardship Report, where it discusses the supposed impact of its engagement with the companies in which it invests. Vanguard provides case studies on the Adani Group (p 36)...
Help GLAS make time to Stop Adani
10 May 2022 There are now 112 major companies that have ruled out providing any support to the climate-wrecking Adani Carmichael coal project. However, debt administration services provider GLAS is not one of them. With Adani’s Australian coal port, NQXT, currently...
Adani planning to self-fund coal port debt refinancing
22 March 2022 According to a note published on 14 March, Adani has indicated to the Moody’s ratings agency that it is failing to find an external source to refinance the US$500m of bonds maturing in December of this year, issued by its coal port North Queensland...
Will GLAS shatter its reputation on Adani’s coal port?
In November 2021, after a short and sharp public backlash, the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) became the 104th company to cut ties with Adani’s disastrous Carmichael coal project. For many years, BNYM was playing a specialised role as the security trustee for the debt...
Convex rules out insuring Adani’s mega mine and all new thermal coal production
4 February 2022 Earlier this week, UK and Bermuda-based Convex Insurance published a statement confirming it “will not insure the construction or operation of any new thermal coal mine and/or its dedicated infrastructure”. This commitment means Convex has ruled itself...
Coal port operator Adani Ports no longer part of UN’s Race to Zero
19 January 2022 Back in December, Market Forces drew attention to the fact that Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone’s (Adani Ports) removal from the Business Ambition for 1.5C campaign run by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) should also see it removed...
Convex’s first sustainability statement pointless without concrete action on coal and tar sands.
23 December 2021 With Adani’s insurance options both inside and outside the Lloyd’s of London market rapidly shrinking, one of the laggards still open to insuring the Adani Carmichael project is UK and Bermuda-based Convex Insurance. Last week, Convex Insurance...
Adani Ports removed from corporate climate campaign due to fossil fuel links
21 December 2021 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (Adani Ports) has once again had its greenwashing attempts thwarted due to its links to the Carmichael thermal coal mine and other fossil fuel projects, this time by being removed from the Business Ambition for...
Adani Ports kicked off MSCI indices due to Carmichael coal link
26 November 2021 Finance research and ratings company MSCI wrote to its clients on Tuesday informing them that Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (Adani Ports, also referred to as APSEZ) is about to be kicked off four MSCI climate indices, after its links to the...