8 April 2015 Three major French banks have announced they will not fund the mega coal mines proposed in the Galilee Basin, or associated infrastructure such as the new coal export terminals at Abbot Point. BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, and Credit Agricole have issued...
Australian Government operative leans on US banks for big coal
11 February 2015 Documents released today through Freedom of Information (FoI) reveal that the Former Howard Government Minister Nick Minchin, a self proclaimed climate change ‘sceptic’, has lobbied at least one of the banks in the United States who last year...
Societe Generale pulls out of Alpha Coal!
6 December 2014 French bank Societe Generale has withdrawn from the Alpha Coal project after months of sustained campaigning by local groups in France. A short statement was released on the bank's website and the bank tweeted the announcement: Societe Generale's...
India rejects Galilee Basin coal
9 November 2014 Polling has revealed strong opposition from within India to the plans of GVK and Adani to import coal from their proposed Queensland mega-mines. The poll, conducted by Indian market research company AZ Research for Market Forces, found that 69% of...
Divestment Day live Oct 2014!
On the 17th and 18th of October, hundreds of Australians will be turning out to close their accounts in protest of the big banks' role in funding dirty coal and gas projects. We'll be tracking events around Australia right here on the live blog so stay tuned! Share on...
The incredible shrinking coal industry
Market Forces in the media Originally published in RenewEconomy, 13 October 2014 A lot has changed in the last few years. Just a few years ago, with prices of both thermal and coking coal through the roof, it was cigars and caviar time for an industry who were...
Going begging for GVK coal
15 September 2014 Market Forces took pity this morning on GVK, who need to find $560 million by tomorrow as part of their deal to own the Alpha Coal Project, a massive thermal coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin. GVK bought Alpha from Hancock Coal in 2011 for $1.2...
Funding Abbot Point coal port is a $236 billion divestment risk to banks
If Australia's big banks fund new coal projects in the Great Barrier Reef, it could cost them a big pile of cash. Almost a quarter of a trillion dollars, in fact. A new survey by The Australia Institute for Market Forces found that 11% of customers of the "big four"...
Making your finances fossil free
4 June 2014 Are your personal finances helping to damage the climate? Chances are they are, without you even knowing it. Do you have a bank deposit? Are you a member of a super fund? Do you own shares? If so, your money is probably being used to finance the companies...
What I did on my “holiday”: European banks won’t fund Abbot Point
27 May 2014 I’m on my way back to Australia and taking stock after a whirlwind tour of France, Germany and the UK, where three major banks were targeted and called on to not fund the Abbot Point coal port expansion in the Great Barrier Reef. I can’t deny that the last...