Australian oil and gas company Woodside is looking to issue an “unsecured 10-year and/or 30-year bond offering,” according to LSEG, which would provide the company with a new source of finance for its gas expansion plans. While the value of the bond issuance has not...
Breaking: CommBank formally walks away from climate wrecking clients
While ANZ, NAB and Westpac gear up to loan hundreds of millions more to one of Australia’s most notorious climate wreckers Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, made a huge announcement this morning, declaring it has made the decision to...
HESTA member submits legal request for information after fund’s ineffective efforts to push for change at Woodside
A HESTA member has today increased pressure on her super fund for failing to demand an end to Woodside’s climate-wrecking gas expansion plans. Long-term HESTA member, multidisciplinary artist and musician Tash Parker has submitted a legal request for information to...
Macquarie’s oil and gas lending brings its net zero commitments under fire
Macquarie, Australia’s fifth largest bank, faced questioning from Market Forces over inconsistencies between its oil and gas investments and its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 at its 2024 Annual General Meeting in Sydney. As a Net Zero Banking Alliance...
Could major super funds already divested from Whitehaven Coal start getting back in?
Our new analysis has found that some of Australia’s largest super funds could re-invest their members’ retirement savings in Whitehaven Coal, after having already excluded this climate wrecker through policy.
International banks no longer involved with Santos’ Barossa gas project
News just broke that BNP Paribas and The Export-Import Bank of Korea, two major international banks, are no longer involved in the financing of Santos’ Barossa gas project. Tell Australian, Japanese, and other international banks to cut ties with Santos. It was...
NAB responds to shareholder warning on fossil fuel funding
NAB’s update is welcome progress but still falls short of alignment with the bank’s climate commitments.
APA Group: don’t light the fuse on the Beetaloo carbon bomb
APA Group is Australia’s largest gas pipeline operator. The company is planning to construct several pipelines to support extensive fracking in the Beetaloo Basin by Empire Energy and Tamboran Resources.
Adaro’s climate destruction journey
A recap of the mounting pressures and reputational risks linked with Adaro’s controversial coal activities In 2023, Adaro published a “decarbonization journey” that supposedly would carry the company towards a green transformation. Although it has recently...
ANZ rules out Papua LNG, leaves the door open to fund climate wrecking companies
This week ANZ announced that it would no longer provide direct financing to new or expanded oil and gas fields, new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plants, and won’t bank any oil and gas company not already on their books. The announcement means that all big four...