AusNet: no commitment on the Task Force

AusNet own and operate the Victorian electricity transmission network, which is mainly powered by brown coal in the Latrobe Valley. Since Australia needs to keep 95% of its coal in the ground to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of holding global warming well below two degrees, this means the company’s … Read More

FAR directors change their opinion about climate risk

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FAR, an Australian oil and gas exploration company that operates mainly in Senegal, finally accepted the importance of climate change as a business risk at their annual general meeting (AGM) today. This was in sharp contrast to last year’s AGM where the topic was not mentioned until question time, and … Read More

Oil Search assets – eroded under 2 degrees

11 May 2018 At the Oil Search annual general meeting today chairman Richard Lee assured shareholders that Oil Search’s assets were safe under 2 degrees of global warming. Speaking about the company’s 2017 Climate Change Resilience Report he explained ‘the analysis concluded the PNG assets, the proposed expansion in PNG … Read More

Caltex proves fossil fuels are incompatible with 2 degrees

Caltex CEO Julian Segal made a perfect case for ditching the company’s fossil fuel-reliant business model yesterday at the company’s Annual General Meeting when he said: “If we were to put a target to reduce emissions by 50%, that would mean closing the refinery at Lytton”. See the clip here: … Read More

Big institutions back Rio Tinto resolution

2 May 2018 A resolution calling on Rio Tinto to publish the payments that it makes to groups lobbying on energy and climate policy, and to review whether such memberships are consistent with Rio’s stated support for emissions reductions, featured prominently at the company’s annual general meeting today.  The resolution … Read More

CommBank getting out of coal

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15 November 2017Commonwealth Bank’s Chair Catherine Livingstone has used today’s annual general meeting in Sydney to indicate the bank intends to get out of the coal industry. Under pressure after Commonwealth Bank has continued its role as Australia’s biggest fossil fuel lender, and having failed to produce a policy that contains … Read More

#StopAdani Corporate Villains tour of Melbourne, 1 Nov

We are at an important stage of the #StopAdani Campaign. A crucial period where Adani is racing against the clock to reach financial close and convince the Australian Government to fund its climate destruction. We are learning more and more about Adani’s shady business dealings, and it’s time to shed … Read More

Stop Adani – National Day of Action and November 1 Tour

10 October 2017 On Saturday concerned citizens around Australia turned out in their thousands to spell it out for the Federal and Queensland governments: the community is strongly against Adani’s Carmichael dirty Galilee Basin coal plans. Market Forces campaigners Matt and Pablo were at the Melbourne event, where over two … Read More