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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...
Suncorp’s Climate Change Action Plan: plenty of detail but where are the outcomes?
27 April 2018 Suncorp, a major Australian financial services company and general insurer, today released its Climate Change Action Plan. As expectations mount from investors and regulators that companies disclose the risks they face from climate change and efforts to...
Suncorp to divest from fossil fuels?
21 September 2017 At Suncorp's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Brisbane today, company chair Ziggy Switkowski made the quite unexpected commitment to reduce the company's fossil fuel exposure to an 'immaterial' amount over the next two years. The revelation came in...
QBE supporting Adani!
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HCF becomes Australia’s first health fund to divest fossil fuels!
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Pressure forces Medibank to consider divestment
10 November 2016 Shareholders and health professionals flooded Medibank with question about their fossil fuel investments and preparedness for climate change at their annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday in Melbourne, prompting the Chairwoman to commit to...
IAG: Leading On Climate But More To Be Done
22 October 2016 Exactly one year ago at their 2015 AGM, IAG’s executives seemed genuinely annoyed by questions related to climate change. This was despite the fact that natural disaster claims in 2014/15 were in excess of $1 billion. Clearly the steady increase in the...
Suncorp understands the importance of 2ºC, fails to commit to it.
22 September 2016 Creator of the award-winning Skeptical Science website John Cook and Associate Professor Kristen Lyons were among the shareholders attending the Suncorp AGM today in Brisbane, trying to find out why a company that is losing billions of dollars in...
IAG Commits To 2 Degrees
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