Woodside has made a habit out of dismissing shareholders’ concerns about climate change over the years, and today’s annual general meeting (AGM) was no different. On top of pressure from major investors like Aware Super and HESTA, the company faced a barrage of...
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Gomeroi Traditional Owners vow to continue fighting Santos to protect Country
Santos continued to face heat over its oil and gas expansion plans at its 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Shareholders were greeted with a protest outside the AGM in support of a safe climate and Gomeroi Traditional Owners, who...
ANZ, NAB and Westpac still have no clear plan to stop financing fossil fuel expansion
ANZ, NAB and Westpac all released their annual Climate Reports last month, with mostly disappointing results. The key takeaway is that the door is still open for fossil fuel companies to keep receiving more finance for their climate destroying expansion plans. Take...
CommBank’s climate progress scrutinised for inconsistencies
Pressure on ANZ, NAB and Westpac heading into AGMs
Adaro’s climate destruction journey
A recap of the mounting pressures and reputational risks linked with Adaro’s controversial coal activities In 2023, Adaro published a “decarbonization journey” that supposedly would carry the company towards a green transformation. Although it has recently...
Woodside suffers world record-breaking vote against climate plan, embarrassingly large vote against Chair
Shareholders have today expressed their contempt for Woodside’s repeated failure to heed their concerns by fiercely rejecting the company’s climate strategy. Beating its own world record vote against a climate plan in 2022, a staggering 58% of Woodside’s shareholders...
Opinion: Woodside’s oil and gas investor firestorm
By Will van de Pol, CEO, Market Forces Australia’s largest oil and gas company Woodside is under fire and the company’s Chair, Richard Goyder is in damage control ahead of crucial votes by investors at the annual general meeting (AGM) this week. Mr Goyder is up for...
Super funds are (so far) failing to vote for greater climate action this year
Some super funds have started disclosing how they voted at Santos’ annual general meeting (AGM) last week. The bad news is that several of these funds are wallowing in greenwash and failing to increase pressure on Santos to end its climate-wrecking oil and gas growth...
Tiwi, Gomeroi Traditional Owners and Market Forces demand Santos ends gas growth
MEDIA RELEASE Tiwi and Gomeroi Traditional Owners have joined with Market Forces to demand that Santos end its gas growth plans, which raise major human rights concerns and threaten the safety of all Australians due to massive climate emissions. On the eve of...
Big coalition of civil society organisations put AustralianSuper on notice
Today, AustralianSuper received a strong message from a big coalition of climate, environment and other civil society organisations, urging the fund to live up to its climate commitments and push for an end to Woodside’s reckless oil and gas expansion plans. The...