3 May 2016 After an incredible response to our crowdfunding campaign, Bulga residents Aneemaree and Rob McLaughlin and Judith Leslie are now preparing to take their fight up to Rio Tinto at the company's annual general meeting (AGM) in Brisbane on Thursday. The...
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Media Release: New campaign targets QBEs climate hypocrisy
Monday 2nd May, 2016 As QBE prepares for its Sydney AGM in Sydney on Wednesday, Market Forces has today launched a new campaign calling on the insurance company to stop ‘making climate change possible.’ Activists this morning visited the company’s headquarters in...
Climate change: made possible by QBE
Activists this morning gave QBE’s headquarters a colourful new rebranding, illustrating how the insurance company was making climate change possible through its underwriting of major fossil fuel projects.
Help us get these local heroes to the Rio Tinto AGM
21 April 2016 Meet Rob and Annemaree McLaughlin. They’re from Bulga, a small town in the Hunter Valley that has for years had to live with Rio Tinto’s massive Mt Thorley Warkworth coal mine. Despite all we know about the damage coal is causing to the environment,...
Media Release: Australia’s biggest super fund rejects fossil fuels
Melbourne, Friday 15 April 2016 Market Forces is today welcoming the announcement by AustralianSuper – Australia’s largest super fund – to create a new sustainable investment option which excludes companies with fossil fuel reserves. However, the financial activist...
Media Release: Peabody bankruptcy a cautionary tale for Australian investors
Melbourne, Wednesday 13 April 2016 Today’s long-expected bankruptcy announcement by Peabody should serve a cautionary tale to Australian investors still holding fossil fuel stocks, according to financial activist group Market Forces. “Australian investors who held...
How could the Future Fund finance Carmichael coal?
This briefing originally appeared on RenewEconomy, 30 March 2016 Could Australia's sovereign wealth fund be the key source of finance that enables Adani’s Carmichael mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin? News has emerged that India's Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley,...
A shocking reminder of the health impacts of coal
11 March 2016 It's a shocking story that's slowly emerging. Up to 1,000 current and former Queensland coal mine workers could be affected by pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, and it's possible that authorities and coal mining companies have tried to cover up the...
Time to tell Australia’s insurers to ditch coal
28 January 2016 Around the world, pressure is building on the insurance industry to divest from fossil fuels, while back home we are ramping up our campaign to stop Australia's major insurers shooting themselves in the foot by investing in climate change's drivers. In...
Our achievements and highlights of 2015
2015 was a monumental year for campaigning to get finance and investment away from fossil fuels. Check out some of our wins and highlights of the year! [cs_section style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "][cs_row style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; "...