2 March 2020 Market Forces has written to corporate watchdog ASIC to raise concerns about fossil fuel producers' climate risk disclosures, or lack thereof. Like other financial regulators, ASIC has been stepping up its scrutiny of companies' disclosure and management...
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Media release: Malaysian banks prop up dying coal industry, despite central bank calls to manage climate risk
New analysis uncovers Malaysian banks’ risky and dirty multi-billion-dollar coal finance 20 February 2020 Malaysian banks are the target of an international climate campaign on their proposed funding to a new Indonesian coal power station after new data revealed CIMB,...
The Siemens fiasco should scare off Adani’s other European supporters
20 February 2020 The pressure on Siemens, the German multinational which last month destroyed its reputation over a $30 million contract, offers a cautionary tale about how dangerous business as usual can become if you haven’t noticed that the world around you has...
Media release: QBE shareholders to call on QBE to stop fueling climate crisis
For immediate release, 17 February 2020 Market Forces has announced it will lodge a shareholder resolution calling on global insurer QBE to get its underwriting and investment activities in line with keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees. The resolution coincides...
Rockwell Automation 64th company to rule out Adani
17 February 2020 US-based multinational Rockwell Automation has become the 64th major company to rule out work on the climate-wrecking Adani Carmichael coal project. In response to a letter from the Stop Adani Alliance sent on 13 February, Rockwell CEO Blake Moret...
BlackRock has a mountain to climb if it wants the moral high ground on Adani
7 February 2020 After Siemens' annual general meeting in Munich became a parade of criticism and rebuke over the company's decision to work on the Adani Carmichael coal mine, BlackRock decided to weigh in to the issue. The Financial Times reports that BlackRock...
Siemens AGM dominated by Adani criticism
6 February 2020 With hundreds of protestors chanting outside and an over-the-top security presence inside, Siemens annual general meeting (AGM) in Munich yesterday was dominated by stern criticism, by both institutional investors and ordinary Germans, of Siemens'...
Australia’s major political parties, brought to you by fossil fuels!
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Op-ed: HSBC lags as finance cleans up Asian energy
HSBC lags as finance cleans up on Asian energy Op-ed by Munira Chowdhury, Analyst, Market Forces Published in Asia Times, 22 January 2020 Last week marked a significant milestone in the financial sector’s ever-increasing rejection of coal, as the world’s largest fund...
Fact Check: Siemens’ attempt to justify the unjustifiable
21 January 2020 Last week Siemens confirmed it intends to go ahead and do signalling work for Adani’s climate-wrecking Carmichael coal project rail line. Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser attempted to justify this unjustifiable decision with a public statement full of nonsense,...