Lending to coal ports

Australia’s largest contribution to global warming comes from our role as the world’s biggest coal exporter. We also have the dubious honour of hosting the world’s largest coal port at Newcastle, while other major coal export terminals – including Abbot Point, Gladstone, Hay Point, and Port Kembla – dot our eastern coastline.

Due to the hundreds of millions of tonnes of dirty coal we ship off to be burned overseas each year, Australia is highly culpable for the growing climate emergency, and so too are the banks that finance these projects.