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...
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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...
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Your email has been sent to HSBC, telling the bank to rule out supporting coal in Bangladesh. You can share our twitter and facebook posts to help alert more people to the coal pipeline in Bangladesh and the banks funding it. Choked by CoalIn May 2018, HSBC put out a...
Whitebark Energy: “No question” about oil and gas demand increasing
11 November 2019 Whitebark Energy's shortcomings on climate risk disclosure and management were top of the agenda for shareholders attending the oil and gas company's AGM in Perth today. Whitebark Energy owns oil and gas exploration and production assets in Canada and...
Cooper Energy following 4°C global warming path
7 November 2019 In response to questioning at the company's annual general meeting today, Cooper Energy confirmed it has "set its future operations against" a 4°C global warming scenario. Cooper's 2019 Sustainability Report stated the company is developing scenarios...
How many years has Central Petroleum got left?
7 November 2019 Oil and gas producer and explorer Central Petroleum was today challenged over its token efforts to understand and respond to climate change risks. Central Petroleum listed climate change, and particularly potential carbon pricing, as a principal risk...