10 May 2018 Acting AMP chief executive Mike Wilkins today dismissed deep concern over incoming chairman David Murray’s controversial views on climate change at the financial services company’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne. Wilkins affirmed his backing...
QBE faces massive shareholder pressure at AGM
[cs_element_section _id="1"][cs_element_row _id="2"][cs_element_column _id="3"] Australia’s biggest insurer and fossil fuel underwriter QBE Insurance admits it needs to manage climate change risks much better but rejects shareholder...
Fierce opposition to Narrabri gas project
[cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ]3 May 2018 Gomeroi traditional owners and farmers from Narrabri made it very clear today at Santos’ annual general meeting (AGM) that they do not want...
Big institutions back Rio Tinto resolution
2 May 2018 A resolution calling on Rio Tinto to publish the payments that it makes to groups lobbying on energy and climate policy, and to review whether such memberships are consistent with Rio’s stated support for emissions reductions, featured prominently at the...
Woodside say they have “no stranded assets”
19 April 2018 "We don’t believe that we have stranded assets," said Woodside chairman Michael Chaney when asked about the oil and gas company’s new Scarborough gas field at today’s AGM. Watch the response here: This directly contradicts the findings of UK think tank...
Adani unravels and major institutions dump coal. This was 2017.
[cs_element_section _id="1"][cs_element_row _id="2"][cs_element_column _id="3"]In the nearly five years since Market Forces began, there has not been a more successful and fast-changing year as 2017. Let's take a look at the year that...
Shareholder Action 2017
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ANZ doesn’t intend for coal exposure to increase
19 December 2017 Climate change was a popular topic at ANZ’s annual general meeting (AGM) today in Sydney. Even before the meeting started, shareholders were greeted by Santa and some elves, who were handing out fliers highlighting ANZ’s fossil fuel lending. Inside...
Orica CEO on below 2 degree warming: “it doesn’t seem that the world is heading that way”
15 December 2017 The Annual General Meeting of Orica, one of the world’s largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems for mining, was held this morning in Melbourne. The ASX50 company, which is heavily reliant on the coal, oil and gas industries,...
NAB confirms thermal coal ban at AGM
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