13 August 2018 A shareholder resolution has been lodged with Whitehaven Coal, calling on the company to disclose the risks it faces from climate change and align its strategy with a scenario that holds global warming to less than two degrees. The resolution was signed...
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It’s about time super funds came clean on climate
By Julien Vincent, Executive director, Market Forces Sydney Morning Herald/Age, 2 August 2018.  2 August 2018 Transparency has never been superannuation industry’s strong suit. Despite super being one of the biggest investments Australians make over their lifetimes,...
Support Mark’s super legal battle over climate change
Meet Mark, an ordinary 23 year old from Brisbane who is taking an extraordinary action that could have a big climate impact... Mark won’t be able to access his super for nearly 40 years. That’s a long time for the impacts of climate change to hit hard. So Mark needs...
Adani: No customers, no finance, but still a threat
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Adani scrapes the bottom of the barrel to refinance Abbot Point
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CommBank and NAB fund massive new LNG terminal despite 2°C commitments
8 June 2018 Last week we released our Banks 2° Scorecard 2018, an updated account of how the actions of Australia’s big four banks are tracking (or not) to their stated support of the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2°C, compared with...
Banks 2° Scorecard 2018 update
Macquarie commits to climate risk disclosure
In less than a year Macquarie has moved from not knowing what the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was, to committing to adopt all of the Task Force’s recommendations. Yesterday Macquarie published this in its climate change report: “In the...
Risks all round from Adani’s Abbot Point sale plans
23 May 2018. Adani's plans to sell down their stake in the Abbot Point coal export terminal, with the aid of investment bank Rothschild, are a win for the Carmichael mega mine project and a clear threat to the campaign to stop it, say environmental finance advocates...
AECOM out! Adani loses last major engineering partner
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