Thursday 28 August: Two community organisations, Amnesty International Australia and the Centre for Non-Violence, have ended their relationship with healthcare and community sector super fund HESTA over its fossil fuel investments. A third social change organisation,...
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Liquefied natural gas industry guzzles 13 times gas used by Australian manufacturers
Tuesday 19 August: New Market Forces analysis finds the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, including exports, uses 13 times more gas than is consumed by Australian manufacturing. The research reveals that just 10 industrial facilities account for approximately more...
Macquarie receives shareholder revolt on climate at 2025 AGM
2025 AGM result: 35.2% in favour of climate resolution The first ever climate-related shareholder resolution at Macquarie, filed by Market Forces, received significant support from shareholders with a huge 35% of shareholder votes in favour. The resolution called on...
Macquarie under fire on climate from shareholders, customers and scientists
Thursday 24 July: Customers, investors and climate scientists have joined more than 180 shareholders and Market Forces, calling on the AU$85 billion bank and financial services company, Macquarie Group, to disclose the full extent of its financing for coal, oil and...
AustralianSuper re-invests in Whitehaven, claims thermal coal is “important” in energy transition
AustralianSuper is the largest super fund in Australia, managing $367 billion in retirement savings on behalf of more than 3.5 million members. Unfortunately AustralianSuper is now the second-largest shareholder in Whitehaven Coal, which has the biggest coal expansion...
Pipeline to Nowhere: APA Group’s dangerous bet on Beetaloo fracking
New Analysis: Fracking Beetaloo equals over 235 years of polluting gas power
Thursday 3 July: New Market Forces analysis reveals fracking the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin would produce more than nine times the entire gas demand forecast for Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) for the next 25 years. The report - Pipeline to...
Empire Energy’s gas fracking fantasies
Will the Empire strike out? Empire Energy (which just changed its name to Beetaloo Energy Australia, but will be referred to as Empire Energy throughout this article) has come under fire over the viability of its dangerous fracking operations in the Northern...
Japan’s top investors have a duty to back a clean energy future
Sachiko Suzuki is Asia climate and energy analyst for Market Forces. Japan faces another scorching summer, but the country's biggest investment companies are stalling the shift to clean energy with the risk of making global warming-fueled disasters worse by pouring...
Exposed: Japan’s five largest investors delay clean energy transition
Wednesday 11 June: A new report by Market Forces has revealed that Japan’s five largest institutional investors — including Mizuho Financial Group/Dai-ichi Life, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nomura Holdings, and Nippon Life Insurance...