Thursday 5 November 2020: NAB’s full year results presentation released today reveals the bank is “expected” to exit thermal coal mining by 2030, five years earlier than its inadequate official commitment to exit by 2035. NAB’s announcement last year that it...
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ANZ to exit thermal coal by 2030. Though funding continues for fossil fuel expansion.
29 October 2020 Today ANZ released new and updated coal policies as part of its full year results, promising to exit thermal coal by 2030 and immediately stop funding new thermal coal mines and coal-fired power stations. This means no major Australian bank or insurer...
Westpac sets thermal coal exit date, re-commits to Paris alignment
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...
Westpac and HSBC violate their coal policies to fund Adani Carmichael
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HSBC’s cynical coal policy leaves Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia open for business
Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 2.0 HSBC’s coal power policy, released at its April 2018 AGM, boldly states it will not finance new coal-fired power plants, with some exceptions. It will still finance projects in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia, with further limits on the...
CommBank: All talk, still no walk on fossil fuel finance
Brisbane, 7 November 2018 At today’s Commonwealth Bank annual general meeting (AGM), chairwoman Catherine Livingstone told shareholders she believed it was unlikely the bank would finance any new 'greenfield' fossil fuels proposals. Such projects include coal mines,...
Singapore banks need to warm up to renewable energy financing
Market Forces in the media By Julien Vincent, executive director Op-ed in the Business Times, 9 October 2018 THE launch in South Korea on Monday of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on avoiding runaway global warming hammered home some stark...
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...