10 December 2021 Washington H Soul Pattinson (WHSP) owns 40% of Australian thermal coal miner New Hope, and the two companies share a number of directors, including Chair Rob Millner. New Hope is pursuing the highly controversial New Acland Stage 3 coal mine in...
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Send some Christmas cheer to Deutsche Bank’s CEO!
7 December 2021 ‘Tis the season to be jolly… unless, like Deutsche Bank, you’re arranging funds for climate-wrecking coal companies. That’s why this Christmas we’re going to flood Deutsche Bank’s CEO with Christmas cards, to remind him that working with Whitehaven...
AustralianSuper members, this is your chance to make an impact at a global scale
2 December 2021 Meet Dylan, an AustralianSuper member who is taking action to ensure the super fund giant is doing all it can to properly manage the risks climate change poses to members’ retirement savings. Supported by the team at Equity Generation Lawyers, Dylan is...
2021 HESTA Annual Member Meeting: The fund avoids climate scrutiny at all costs
1 December 2021 Executives and board members of super fund HESTA failed to address members’ concerns about the fund’s investments in companies expanding oil and gas production at its annual member meeting yesterday evening. A group of members calling themselves the...
Super funds undermining climate commitments
29 November 2021 Our super funds have had a number of critical opportunities to force companies they invest in to step up on climate action over the past couple of months. Yet our new analysis finds they’ve been squandering these opportunities by voting against...
ANZ fails to rule out funding fossil fuel expansion amidst climate crisis
26 November 2021 ANZ, a bank purportedly committed to net-zero emissions by 2050, today released an updated climate policy that does nothing to prevent it from funding new climate-wrecking oil and gas projects and the companies pursuing them. The policy update comes...
The fight has just begun: Market Forces response to Scarborough-Pluto 2 final investment decision
22 November 2021 Reacting to Woodside and BHP’s announcement of final investment decision on the Scarborough offshore gas field and associated Pluto Train 2 LNG terminal, Market Forces Asset Management Campaigner Will van de Pol said, “the fight against the...
Two more insurers reject Adani’s coal project, while Convex attempts to censor criticism
22 November 2021 Two major London insurers, RSA Insurance Group and Conduit Re, have ruled out underwriting Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal project in Australia. In an email to Market Forces, RSA stated: "Our underwriters follow our Climate Change and Low Carbon...
New Hope Corporation doubles down on coal during farcical 2021 AGM
19 November 2021 Coal miner New Hope Corporation’s 2021 AGM descended into farce yesterday, with technology issues compounding upon the company’s evasive approach to shareholder accountability. Despite this, New Hope’s board still found time to double-down on...
Adani’s first coal train stopped in its tracks. Let’s make it permanent.
16 November 2021 A train carrying coal from Adani’s Carmichael mine is headed to Abbot Point/NQXT port so it can be exported to India and used to pollute people’s lungs a quarter of the way around the world while fueling the climate crisis. We know because it was...