[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text]Â 25 October 2018 Shareholder demands for climate risk disclosure reached a record high in Australia today, as 40% of Whitehaven Coal's investors supported a...
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QBE’s support for fossil fuels costing its customers and our climate
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QBE customers leaving insurer due to fossil fuel support
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text _order="0"] Market Forces has compiled videos of QBE customers from all over Australia calling on the insurer to end its investment in and insuring of coal, oil and...
Whitehaven next in frame for investor pressure on climate
Market Forces in the media Op-ed by Julien Vincent, executive director Market Forces Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, 19 October 2018 Next week investors will get the opportunity to vote on whether an ASX100 company that is custodian of their money should align its...
Aurizon doesn’t want to become ‘public enemy number one’
18 October 2018 Aurizon’s relationship with Indian coal mining giant Adani dominated question time at its annual general meeting in Brisbane today. Last month, Adani proposed a shorter rail line that would link its proposed Carmichael mega mine in the Galilee Basin to...
Northern Territory traditional owners challenge Origin Energy’s board on fracking consent
17 October 2018 Traditional owners travelled all the way from the Northern Territory for Origin Energy’s annual general meeting (AGM) today in Sydney to challenge the company that wants to frack their land. Since the Northern Territory scrapped its fracking ban in...
Canberra protestors at the Korean Embassy warn Korean investors not to back Adani’s disastrous coal export plans
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World first legal case alleges REST breached duties over climate risk
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text _order="0"]Remember Mark McVeigh, the 23 year old taking his super fund to court over climate change risk? Well Mark has just taken his action to the next level....
AGL reaffirms closing Liddell coal-fired power station by 2022
26 September 2018 Today energy giant AGL faced angry community representatives and shareholders at its annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne. Most of question time was taken up by the Western Port community voicing their concerns over Crib Point, with the board...
WIN! Standard Chartered rules out new coal…. everywhere!
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text]25 September 2018 Standard Chartered bank today updated its policy on lending to power generation, ruling out new coal power plants anywhere in the world. It...