MUFG, Japan's largest bank and the world’s top LNG financier from 2021 to 2023, has brazenly stepped into the role of financial advisor for the controversial Papua LNG project. This venture, led by Total Energies, ExxonMobil, Santos, and ENEOS (JX Nippon), has already...
Scientists call on ANZ to listen to science and stop banking new fossil fuels
Thursday 19 December: Climate change scientists have backed hundreds of shareholders demanding ANZ and all big four Australian banks meet their climate commitments by ending finance for companies developing new and expanded fossil fuel projects. The calls by...
Farmers join shareholders to demand NAB ends finance for new fossil fuels
Wednesday 18 December: Farmers across Australia have joined hundreds of shareholders calling on NAB and all big four Australian banks to end finance for companies expanding coal, oil and gas production. The calls by farmers come as NAB - which calls itself the...
UniSuper exits gas pipeline company APA Group
UniSuper, Australia’s fourth largest superannuation fund, has dumped its remaining shares in APA Group. Until recently, UniSuper was APA’s largest shareholder, owning 10% of the company. The fund sold $500 million worth of APA shares in October this year, before...
ANZ, NAB and Westpac still have no clear plan to stop financing fossil fuel expansion
ANZ, NAB and Westpac all released their annual Climate Reports last month, with mostly disappointing results. The key takeaway is that the door is still open for fossil fuel companies to keep receiving more finance for their climate destroying expansion plans. Take...
Opinion: Gas is burning our climate faster, and Australia’s part of the problem
By Professor Lesley Hughes, climate scientist Earth is on track to experience the hottest year on record. It comes on the heels of another record-breaking 365 days of scorching temperatures, raging fires, floods and storms wreaking mayhem in all...
APA under pressure for enabling fracking in the Northern Territory at 2024 AGM
At APA’s annual general meeting last week 12.35% of shareholders voted in favour of a resolution calling on APA to disclose: how it plans to manage emissions from new gas infrastructure, including potential Beetaloo basin pipelines, and how they are compatible...
17,000 strong against APA unlocking the Beetaloo gas basin
Over 17,000 community members, including Traditional Owners, scientists, and healthcare professionals have called on APA not to light the fuse on the Beetaloo carbon bomb. Will UniSuper do the same? APA Group is Australia’s largest gas pipeline operator. The company...
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund invests $1 billion in big coal and gas
Thursday 24 October: New Market Forces analysis reveals that the Future Fund has more than $1 billion invested in three of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel expanding companies, Woodside Energy, Santos and Whitehaven Coal. The analysis finds the Future Fund is a top 10...
Traditional Owners, health leaders: 17,000 demand APA stop backing fracking
MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 24 October: Traditional Owners, leading doctors and scientists have joined over 17,000 people, environment and human rights organisations, to sign a letter calling on APA Group to end its plans to build a pipeline enabling dangerous gas...