In November 2021, after a short and sharp public backlash, the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) became the 104th company to cut ties with Adani’s disastrous Carmichael coal project. For many years, BNYM was playing a specialised role as the security trustee for the debt...
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Convex rules out insuring Adani’s mega mine and all new thermal coal production
4 February 2022 Earlier this week, UK and Bermuda-based Convex Insurance published a statement confirming it “will not insure the construction or operation of any new thermal coal mine and/or its dedicated infrastructure”. This commitment means Convex has ruled itself...
Dirty dollars – how the fossil fuel industry funds major political parties
1 February 2022 Australia was heavily criticised amid the United Nation's COP26 climate summit last year, as it reportedly joined or ‘hid behind’ others such as Saudi Arabia and Russia in opposing key commitments and negotiating text. Its last minute commitment to net...
Coal port operator Adani Ports no longer part of UN’s Race to Zero
19 January 2022 Back in December, Market Forces drew attention to the fact that Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone’s (Adani Ports) removal from the Business Ambition for 1.5C campaign run by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) should also see it removed...
Repeat offenders NAB, ANZ and Westpac bankrolling “bet against the Paris Agreement”
NAB, ANZ and Westpac are among 18 global banks that have loaned1 to a gas processing facility that paves the way for a carbon bomb at the scale of 15 coal power stations. The banks—including Japanese megabanks Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC, UK’s HSBC and Standard Chartered,...
Net Zero Australian banks fund $3.5bn carbon bomb
18 January 2022 NAB, ANZ and Westpac are among 18 global banks that have trashed any net zero commitments they have by lending1 US$3.49 billion to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for its purchase of a 49% stake in the Pluto LNG Train 2 gas processing facility,...
Convex’s first sustainability statement pointless without concrete action on coal and tar sands.
23 December 2021 With Adani’s insurance options both inside and outside the Lloyd’s of London market rapidly shrinking, one of the laggards still open to insuring the Adani Carmichael project is UK and Bermuda-based Convex Insurance. Last week, Convex Insurance...
Adani Ports removed from corporate climate campaign due to fossil fuel links
21 December 2021 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (Adani Ports) has once again had its greenwashing attempts thwarted due to its links to the Carmichael thermal coal mine and other fossil fuel projects, this time by being removed from the Business Ambition for...
Spread the word about NAB’s dirty fossil fuel funding
17 December 2021 Call out NAB: share these social media posts! Post a message on NAB’s social media! NAB shareholders are today gathering at the company’s virtual annual general meeting (AGM), where they’ll hold the bank to account for all manner of issues, key among...
Tell NAB: net-zero by 2050 = no new fossil fuels
17 December 2021 Post a message on NAB’s social media! Call out NAB: share these social media videos! NAB shareholders are today gathering at the company’s virtual annual general meeting (AGM), where they’ll hold the bank to account for all manner of issues, key among...