By Will van de Pol, Chief Executive Officer, Market Forces, clean energy finance advocacy organisation. What’s your New Year’s resolution? The Commonwealth Bank has made a groundbreaking resolution to stop funding coal, oil and gas companies without genuine plans...
Opinion
Opinion: Gas is burning our climate faster, and Australia’s part of the problem
By Professor Lesley Hughes, climate scientist Earth is on track to experience the hottest year on record. It comes on the heels of another record-breaking 365 days of scorching temperatures, raging fires, floods and storms wreaking mayhem in all...
Asia’s corporate giants face climate responsibility perfect storm
OPINION | Dr Sachiko Suzuki, Asia Climate and Energy Analyst at Market Forces Dr Suzuki is a sustainable finance expert and has previously worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), posted in South East Asia. Companies in Asia have been getting away...
Global investors want more climate action from Japan’s megabanks
OPINION | Will van de Pol, CEO at Market Forces Japan's big banks have a big problem. Like climate change, it will get much worse unless it is addressed quickly. The megabanks are lagging behind when it comes to playing their part in the critical transition to clean...
Days of reckoning on the future of gas
OPINION | Axel Dalman, Head of Research at Market Forces The oil and gas industry had a critical opportunity at this week’s Australian Energy Producers conference, held in Perth, to exchange ideas on how to meet the existential threat posed to their business by the...
Opinion: Woodside’s oil and gas investor firestorm
By Will van de Pol, CEO, Market Forces Australia’s largest oil and gas company Woodside is under fire and the company’s Chair, Richard Goyder is in damage control ahead of crucial votes by investors at the annual general meeting (AGM) this week. Mr Goyder is up for...
Southeast asian banks must dump Indonesian coal
Profusion of standards has allowed companies to obscure potential financial impact
Japan should lead the way on disclosure of climate risk
Profusion of standards has allowed companies to obscure potential financial impact
Banks and regulators must smell the smoke: Coal is not a transition fuel
OPINION | Binbin Mariana, Energy Finance Campaigner at Market Forces in Jakarta, Indonesia. A former banker, Ms Mariana believes financial institutions have a duty to prevent the climate crisis. Indonesia is at a crossroads on climate change. Extreme disasters are...
Coal and media need to wake up and smell the smoke
By Antony Balmain, Media and Communications Manager, Market Forces Sometimes it seems as if I am living in a parallel universe. This week, Whitehaven Coal, one of Australia’s largest coal miners, announced record profits and forecast growth plans completely...