26 October 2018 Stanmore Coal are a pure play coal company with several thermal and coking coal mining operations across Queensland. They made headlines in 2015 when they picked up a mothballed mine from Vale and Sumitomo for just $1. In 2016, we published that...
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South32 ‘getting out of coal’ by investing millions into it
25 October 2018 For a global mining group, South32 has been ahead of its peers not only in their willingness to accept climate science but also in publicly disclosing the risks the business faces. The company even set an emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050...
Investors want Whitehaven Coal to disclose climate risk – but not avoid it
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text]Â 25 October 2018 Shareholder demands for climate risk disclosure reached a record high in Australia today, as 40% of Whitehaven Coal's investors supported a...
Paris climate goals not on the menu at Treasury Wines
18 October 2018 Wildfires tore through the Napa Valley in October 2017, devastating the Californian wine industry. As the hills went up in flames, the estates owned and operated by Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) miraculously survived with only minor damage. The fires,...
Canberra protestors at the Korean Embassy warn Korean investors not to back Adani’s disastrous coal export plans
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][x_custom_headline level="h2" looks_like="h3" accent="false"][/x_custom_headline][cs_text]10 October 2018 Today, Canberrans turned out at the Korean Embassy to warn potential...
Media release: Korean Adani interest revealed in Freedom of Information request
Friday 5 October, 2018: A document released through Freedom of Information has revealed Korea responding positively to efforts by the Australian Government to promote Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal project. The document, sent from Seoul to Canberra in November...
Magellan can’t see risks to its own business
Magellan Financial Group's (MFG) deputy investment officer Dominico Giuliano recently made statements in the media about the need for accurate climate risk disclosure. At its annual general meeting (AGM) today, however, the company seemed to think that climate change...
AGL reaffirms closing Liddell coal-fired power station by 2022
26 September 2018 Today energy giant AGL faced angry community representatives and shareholders at its annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne. Most of question time was taken up by the Western Port community voicing their concerns over Crib Point, with the board...
WIN! Standard Chartered rules out new coal…. everywhere!
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text]25 September 2018 Standard Chartered bank today updated its policy on lending to power generation, ruling out new coal power plants anywhere in the world. It...
Media Release: Standard Chartered offers leadership on coal and climate change in key energy markets
Tuesday 25 September, 2018:Â Responding to the news that Standard Chartered has ruled out finance for "any new coal-fired power plant projects, including expansions, in any location", Market Forces Executive Director Julien Vincent said: "This is what leadership on...