Market Forces is supporting shareholders to call on companies to demonstrate how they will ‘wind up’ (bring about an end to) coal, oil and gas production over time, protecting money from being wasted on new projects, and supporting workers as the economy rapidly moves on from fossil fuels to meet the Paris Agreement.
These calls are being put forward in formal shareholder proposals to be voted on at the upcoming annual general meetings of four major pure play fuel producers: Whitehaven Coal, New Hope Group, Beach Energy, and Cooper Energy. Investors should be making the same demands of all coal, oil and gas producers.
The companies facing these calls have no place in a decarbonised economy. Their business models rely on digging up and selling more dirty coal, oil and gas, when we know fossil fuel production must rapidly decline in order to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of holding warming to 1.5°C.
By failing to plan for and manage this necessary decline, these companies risk burning cash on projects that cannot go ahead if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This exposes workers and investors to the economic and social shocks of abrupt project closures.
Investors must realise their moral and financial imperatives to take this opportunity to call on coal, oil and gas companies to wind up their operations in a manner consistent with the Paris climate goals, while protecting and supporting workers through the transition to a net-zero carbon economy.
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