[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text _order="0"]10 September 2018 If you've been following our work closely over the last couple of years, you'll know we've put a lot of effort into forcing companies to...
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Investing in the Dark
Australia’s largest companies are making painfully slow progress towards climate risk disclosure, demonstrating a need for increased action from investors and regulators. Since March, while companies’ reporting on climate risk governance has significantly...
The power of finance to slow new coal plants
Market Forces in the media By Julien Vincent, executive director Op-ed in the Asia Times, August 29, 2018 So far, 2018 has seen seven banks dominant in Southeast Asia either release or update their policies related to coal, the single-biggest source of greenhouse-gas...
Japanese bank policies rule out one third of overseas coal plant finance
Market Forces in the media RenewEconomy, 28 August 2018 Bernadette Maheandiran, Market Forces Legal Analyst In a major shift from some of the world’s largest funders of coal power, new policies should rule out financial support to a third of the coal-fired power...
Bloomberg News: These three coal plants might not get Japan funds under new rules
Market Forces in the media By Chisaki Watanabe, Bloomberg News August 28, 2018 Asia, Africa projects fall short of guidelines: Market Forces Japanese banks have committed to funding less coal generation Three coal-fired power plants under consideration in Vietnam,...
Media release: New Japanese bank policies rule out a third of overseas coal plant finance
28 August 2018: New coal policies should rule out providing financial support to close to a third of the coal-fired power stations (by capacity) currently under consideration by Japan’s three major commercial banks, according to a new analysis released today by...
Ad urging Standard Chartered to stop funding dirty coal published across Asia
23 August 2018 Today, with the help of community donors and partner organisations, Market Forces published a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times Asia, urging Standard Chartered Bank to stop funding new coal-fired power plants. Click here to email Standard...
QBE to review climate risk of investments and underwriting
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Whitehaven Coal told: get aligned with 2 degrees!
13 August 2018 A shareholder resolution has been lodged with Whitehaven Coal, calling on the company to disclose the risks it faces from climate change and align its strategy with a scenario that holds global warming to less than two degrees. The resolution was signed...
Take action: What is your super fund doing to manage climate risk?
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text _order="0"]You may have already heard about Mark McVeigh, a 23 year old Brisbane ecologist who is suing one of Australia’s biggest super funds, REST, over the fund’s...