ヨーロッパ第3位の銀行である Crédit Agricole（クレディ・アグリコル）は、先週 TotalEnergies（トタルエナジーズ ）に対して大きな打撃を与え、トタルエナジーズが提案しているパプア液化天然ガスプロジェクト（パプア LNG）への資金提供をしないと宣言しました。...
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TotalEnergies’ bankers deliver major blow to Papua LNG carbon bomb
Crédit Agricole, Europe’s third largest bank, has delivered a major blow to TotalEnergies this week, declaring it will not finance Total’s proposed Papua Liquefied Natural Gas project (Papua LNG). Despite being the financial advisor to the project, and one of...
Japan should lead the way on disclosure of climate risk
Profusion of standards has allowed companies to obscure potential financial impact
Will the funders of Santos’ Barossa project live up to their human rights commitments?
29 January 2023 Australia’s second biggest gas company, Santos, is able to proceed with its $5.7 billion offshore Barossa gas project, following a Federal Court decision earlier this month. Barossa is located in the Timor Sea north of Darwin and the Tiwi...
2023 Coal Season Wrap up
The year 2023 saw the Australian coal industry become increasingly financially ostracised. As the rest of the world transitions away from the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal miners have to look further afield for funding which once came easily. Our movement has put...
Emergency Leaders and shareholders call on big four banks to end finance for new fossil fuels
Thursday 14 December: Emergency Leaders have joined hundreds of shareholders calling on the big four Australian banks to end finance for new and expanded fossil fuel projects. The calls by Emergency Leaders for Climate Action come as Westpac faces a resolution...
Major coal producer New Hope shuts out shareholders calling for wind down
MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 23 November: Shareholders of New Hope Group are appalled at being shut out of the coal company’s annual general meeting (AGM) and being prevented from asking about how the miner will wind down production in line with global climate goals. More...
Big four banks make strides, but action still dangerously slow in a climate emergency
16 November 2023 All big four Australian banks have now released updated fossil fuel finance restrictions this year that have, to varying degrees, moved the dial on what they can’t finance going forward. But, like everything with the banks – the devil is in the...
NAB commits to future fossil finance restrictions, business as usual for next two years
10 November 2023 Yesterday NAB announced that from 1 October 2025 it will require the majority of fossil fuel companies to have Paris-aligned transition plans in place in order to provide additional lending. From that deadline, to get a corporate or project...
HESTA fails to address key concerns raised in open letter signed by more than 500 members
HESTA has finally responded to an open letter delivered in September, calling on the fund to publicly divest from Woodside. Yet HESTA’s response has completely failed to address members’ concerns while letting climate wrecker Woodside off the hook for continuing to...