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...
AGL shareholder statement on Liddell power station
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Media Release: Shareholders move to force Commbank to manage climate risk
28 August 2017 Shareholders have lodged a first-of-its-kind resolution with Commonwealth Bank that would embed climate change risk management into its constitution. It comes a month after shareholders began court proceedings against the bank over its failure to...
Media release: Commbank to face new shareholder resolution after climate policy fail
Environmental finance group Market Forces will lodge a new shareholder resolution against Commonwealth Bank after its climate change position statement released today fell well short of its publicly-made 2 degree commitments. “Commonwealth Bank is not even pretending...
Shareholders put climate front and centre
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Dr. Anne Poelina and Micklo Corpus defend country at Buru’s AGM
Outside the Buru Energy Annual General Meeting (AGM) 20-30 people gathered in support of Traditional Custodians Micklo Corpus Yawuru and Dr Anne Poelina, a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. Noongar Elder Uncle Ben Taylor,...
FAR: ‘two degrees is laughable in the extreme’
FAR is an Australian owned oil and gas company which operates in Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Australia and Senegal, a country already facing severe impacts from climate change. Currently the executive bonuses of FAR are tied to how much oil and gas they find. CEO Catherine...
Sundance: Not aware of any risks from climate change
25 May 2017 Sundance Energy, the company that had its annual general meeting in Adelaide today, has had a tough run lately. US Secretary of State and former CEO of Exxon Mobil Mr. Tillerson sued them because he alleged that his $5 million property was in danger due to...
Shareholder win! Oil Search commits to climate risk disclosure
19 May 2017 After months of pressure from shareholders, Oil Search confirmed at their AGM today that the company would commit to conduct and release an analysis of how it performs in a scenario where global warming is contained to 2 degrees and 1.5 degrees. The...
Revealed: AMP exposed to Adani Abbot Point
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