[cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ]Monday 3 December 2018 All over the world, the damage humans are doing to our climate is increasingly evident. Heat records are being smashed, droughts are taking...
IAG still won’t commit to divest from coal
26 October 2018 “We are feeling the effects of climate change already: we see it in our own industry’s data, which tells us an inescapable truth.” That was CEO Peter Harmer today at Insurance Australia Group (IAG’s) annual general meeting (AGM). His company used the...
QBE’s support for fossil fuels costing its customers and our climate
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QBE customers leaving insurer due to fossil fuel support
[cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ] Market Forces has compiled videos of QBE customers from all over Australia calling on the insurer to end its investment in and insuring of coal, oil and...
QBE to review climate risk of investments and underwriting
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Suncorp’s Climate Change Action Plan: plenty of detail but where are the outcomes?
27 April 2018 Suncorp, a major Australian financial services company and general insurer, today released its Climate Change Action Plan. As expectations mount from investors and regulators that companies disclose the risks they face from climate change and efforts to...
IAG: Federal Government is deaf on climate change
20 October 2017 In a week dominated by the Federal Government’s capitulation to the coal lobby in its latest instalment of energy policy failure, it was an opportune time for Australia’s largest general insurer – IAG – to call out the need for tougher action on...
Suncorp to divest from fossil fuels?
21 September 2017 At Suncorp's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Brisbane today, company chair Ziggy Switkowski made the quite unexpected commitment to reduce the company's fossil fuel exposure to an 'immaterial' amount over the next two years. The revelation came in...
QBE supporting Adani!
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Media Release: HCF Becomes First Health Insurer to Dump Fossil Fuels
Melbourne, 10 February 2017 Finance campaign group Market Forces is welcoming the announcement that private health fund HCF will divest from all fossil fuels in the first quarter of this year. Representing over 680,000 Australians and responsible for $2 billion of...