18 September, 2017 News this morning has highlighted the utter lunacy of the current state of the energy ‘debate’ in Australia, with Trevor St Baker, Chairman of Delta Electricity, calling on the government to pressure banks to keep lending to dirty power stations like the ones he owns. We need … Read More
Two degrees scorecard update
In December 2015, the Paris climate talks saw 195 nations agree to limit global warming to well below 2°C, compared with pre-industrial levels. In the lead up to Paris, ANZ, CommBank, NAB and Westpac all publicly championed the two degree limit, committing to support the transition to a low carbon … Read More
Big 4 STILL financing fossil fuel expansion
On 22 June 2017, some 18 months after committing to support the aims of the Paris Agreement, Australia’s big four banks all contributed to a deal to finance more oil and gas exploration and production. Clearly, ANZ, CommBank, NAB and Westpac are yet to come to terms with exactly what … Read More
CommBank’s climate fail
Commonwealth Bank has been given FAIL grades in all four categories of a new study into international banks’ fossil fuel lending policies. With no publicly disclosed policies to restrict coal mining, coal power, LNG exports or extreme oil, Commonwealth Bank found itself at the bottom of a pile of 37 … Read More
Media Release: Australia’s banks’ $10 billion fossil fuel funding flouts climate pledges
Australia’s banks’ $10 billion fossil fuel funding flouts climate pledges MONDAY 6 MARCH, 2017: New analysis by finance group Market Forces reveals Australia’s ‘big four’ provided almost $10 billion in finance to fossil fuels across the planet in 2016 – three and a half times the amount invested in clean … Read More
Big banks loaned $10 billion to fossil fuels in 2016
6 March 2017 2016 was the first full year after the Paris agreement was signed, and since Australia’s big banks all committed to support the goal of holding global warming to well below 2ºC. So, how exactly did the banks go about backing up their 2°C commitments last year? Well, … Read More
Shareholders revolt over ANZ’s climate destruction
Update: 10 am, Saturday 17 December In news breaking this morning, ANZ’s CEO Shayne Elliott told media after the AGM that ANZ’s coal mining exposure was shrinking and he didn’t see a reversal of that trend, effectively ruling out funding for the Adani Carmichael project! Massive! @ANZ_AU CEO Shayne Elliott … Read More
Media release: NAB’s climate change position makes new fossil fuel projects impossible to fund
Melbourne, 14 November 2016 NAB’s climate change position announced today sets it apart from the major banks, but the real proof will be in its future lending decisions, according to environmental finance campaigners Market Forces. The bank’s “Dig Deeper” sustainability report[1], released today, adopts important new language committing NAB to … Read More
Whitehaven: A lot to hide this AGM
28 October 2016 Yesterday Whitehaven Coal held their Annual General Meeting in Sydney. They obviously had a lot to hide. While most AGMs are filmed and broadcast, Whitehaven decided to record only the audio, and cut off recording completely before question time. To bring you up to speed Whitehaven is the company that, … Read More
Divestment Day Live!
On Friday 7th and Saturday 8th October, over 1000 Australians joined us for Divestment Day activities at 13 locations around the country. With hundreds of customers closing their accounts in protest of the banks’ dirty fossil fuel investments, and public demonstrations of community strength, the message to the banks was loud … Read More
