20 November 2017 At last week's New Hope annual general meeting, protesters from Lock the Gate, Great Sandy Strait Saviours and the Oakey Coal Action Alliance met shareholders out the front to point out that company money was being wasted on public relations and legal...
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Shareholders concerned about LNG Limited’s attitude
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1"][cs_element_row _id="2"][cs_element_column _id="3"][cs_text _order="0" class="cs-ta-left"]17 November 2017 Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. does not regard climate change as a material risk to business. As the globe begins a...
Seven Group Holdings assert they have no significant environmental liabilities
16 November 2017 This morning at Seven Group Holdings (SGH) annual general meeting in Sydney, Chairman Kerry Matthew Stokes reaffirmed that the company does not consider ‘climate risk’ as a material business risk. This is despite the company's massive exposure to the...
Media release: Commbank confirms coal exit
Chairperson Catherine Livingstone will use today’s AGM to confirm Commonwealth Bank’s exit from investment in coal. In a statement submitted to the ASX and soon to be delivered at the AGM, Ms Livingstone says “our coal funding is comparatively small and has been...
Senex not aware of the TCFD
15 November 2017 Today shareholders asked Senex about whether it has plans to transition to lower carbon emitting activities in line with the two degree Paris climate commitments. In short, the answer was no. Senex Energy is an Australian energy company listed on the...
NAB boosts renewables, but fails to limit fossil fuel funding
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Medibank divestment driven by health impacts of climate change
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1"][cs_element_row _id="2"][cs_element_column _id="3"][cs_text _order="0"]13 November 2017Australia's biggest health insurer today announced it will divest from fossil fuels due to the negative health impacts of climate change.This...
Media Release: Climate change spurs Medibank fossil fuel divestment
Monday 13 November, 2017: Medibank’s announcement it will divest tens of millions of dollars from fossil fuels due to the ‘health effects of climate change’ has been welcomed by environmental finance group Market Forces. The decision came today in an ASX statement in...
Cooper Energy: receiving funding from ANZ
At the Cooper Energy annual general meeting board members asserted they were conscious of environmental impacts, however they were unable to give specific details about their plans as they weren't yet formulated. Managing Director, David Maxwell, also announced a...
Karoon Gas: “Targets in terms of our GHG emissions will be meaningless”
9 November 2017 This morning at the Annual General Meeting of Karoon Gas in Melbourne, Chairman David Klingner expressed that setting targets in terms of Karoon's GHG emissions will be meaningless. This is completely contradictory to the company's commitment to...