Thursday 18 December: Security Leaders have joined shareholders calling on ANZ to uphold its climate commitments by ceasing finance for coal, oil and gas expansion, which undermines the safety of all Australians. The calls by the Australian Security Leaders Climate...
Emergency Leaders, shareholders warn Westpac: meet climate pledges
Emergency Leaders have joined shareholders warning Westpac has a duty to meet its climate commitments by ending finance for companies expanding coal, oil and gas, fuelling worsening bushfires, floods and deadly heatwaves. The warning from Emergency Leaders for Climate...
NGOs submit first formal Equator Principles complaint against MUFG and potential financiers of the Papua LNG project
Port Moresby/Melbourne/Tokyo/Paris/London. Wednesday 10 December - Today, six organisations have submitted the first formal complaint to the Equator Principles detailing urgent concerns about the potential climate, biodiversity and human rights impacts of the proposed...
NGOら、パプアLNG事業の潜在的な資金提供者であるMUFGに対し世界初のエクエーター原則に基づく異議申立を提出
2025年12月10日 環境法・地域権利センター(CELCOR, PNG)ジュビリー・オーストラリアアジア債務・開発人民運動(APMDD)JACSESMarket ForcesReclaim Finance 本日、6つの団体が、パプアニューギニアで計画されているパプアLNG事業について、その潜在的な気候・生物多様性・人権への影響に関する重大な懸念を示す、初の正式な「エクエーター原則」に関する異議申立を提出した。同プロジェクトは TotalEnergies が主導し、共同事業者として...
Top Australian super funds invest $33 billion in fossil fuel expansion
New Market Forces analysis finds that Australia’s top 30 superannuation funds have more than $33 billion invested in companies expanding fossil fuels globally, in their default or largest investment options, based on latest disclosures. The research shows that these...
Climate-related shareholder proposals have achieved results.
By Sachiko Suzuki, Asia Climate and Energy Analyst, Market Forces. Cover image: LNG-related facilities in which Japan’s INPEX and JERA have stake, are concentrated in Darwin, Australia. (Image credit: Paula Martinez / Market Forces) According to the Japan...
Australia’s big banks face big climate decisions
By Will van de Pol, Chief Executive, Market Forces AS LIBERAL MEMBERS squabble after formally rejecting the scientific and economic imperative to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, a division is also starting to open up among the nation’s largest banks....
Scientists, Health Experts, Securityholders and NT communities put APA on notice over Beetaloo gas expansion
At APA Group’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Sydney, community leaders from the Northern Territory, climate scientists, doctors, and securityholders united to deliver one message the board could not ignore: You can’t claim climate action or Paris-alignment while building...
Big four banks fund major fossil fuel firms $43 billion in 10 years
Wednesday 12 November: New analysis by Market Forces finds that in the decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted to rein in climate change, Australia’s big four banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, and Westpac – have provided AU$43.4 billion to the world’s major...
Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power
By Binbin Mariana, Senior Asia Energy Finance Campaigner, Market Forces, a clean energy finance advocacy organisation working across Asia and Australia. Southeast Asia’s biggest banks have made public commitments to sustainability and phasing out financing for coal,...
