20 November 2019 In response to shareholder questioning at Seven Group Holdings' annual general meeting in Sydney today, Director Terry Davis confirmed the company has no exit plan for its oil and gas businesses. With ownership stakes in a range of businesses and...
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Super funds failing to engage with New Hope on climate risk
19 November 2019 Investor claims of climate risk engagement were again called into question at today's New Hope AGM. As a pure play coal producer with plans to open up a massive new mine, there could hardly be a better example of a company facing climate change risk....
Insurance “red zones” spread across Australia. Insurers making it worse
19 November 2019 The number of households whose insurance premiums have become unaffordable is rising at an alarming rate across Australia. This is because of more extreme weather events and rising sea levels, which are linked directly to global warming....
Senex: company statements on the Paris Agreement are hollow
18 November 2019 Senex, an Australian oil and gas company, states in its annual report that the company “recognises and accepts the science of climate change and fully supports the objectives of limiting global temperate rise as agreed by governments in the 2015 Paris...
Prairie Mining directors still failing to meet legal obligations
November 18, 2019 Last year, Prairie Mining Ltd chair Ian Middlemas was singled out by the Guardian as a director that may be struggling to understand his legal obligation to consider the risks that climate change poses to the business. Middlemas' statements at...
Shareholder revolt sees LNG Limited’s Chairman ousted
15 November 2019 LNG Limited shareholders are clearly fed up with the company’s terrible financial performance in recent years, with the company's share price now sitting at less than 5% of its 2015 peak. Huge protest votes were cast by LNG Limited shareholders...
NAB climate commitments too little, too late
15 November 2019 NAB's sustainability report, released today, signaled an end to the bank's involvement in thermal coal mining, but places its exit far later than what is needed to help meet the Paris Agreement climate goals. The commitment to be out of thermal coal...
Too little, too late: NAB’s new climate policy an exercise in greenwash
15 November 2019: NAB’s Sustainability Report, released today, is little more than greenwash and a recipe for climate catastrophe, says environmental finance group Market Forces. In particular, its central announcement to exit thermal coal mining by 2035 is a...
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Medibank claims fossil fuel divestment, but hasn’t finished the job
14 November 2019 What a difference a few years makes. Back in 2016, when the climate crisis was first raised by shareholders at the Medibank annual general meeting (AGM), the company seemed to have given no consideration to the impacts that fossil fuel pollution and...