Thursday 19 September 2019 At today's AGM in Sydney, over 30% of shareholders, worth more than AU$3.8bn, voted against management and in support of a resolution calling on the company to reduce emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. Response...
Media Release: Rio Tinto to face shareholder resolution as BHP sets Paris-aligned ‘scope 3’ emission reduction goals
Rio Tinto Pilbara expansion. Cape Lambert and Dampier and Rail. Thursday 12 September, 2019: Following BHPs confirmation that the public goals it will release next year for its “Scope 3” greenhouse gas emissions will be aligned with the Paris Agreement, externally...
Media release: Whitehaven Coal calls 185 countries’ bluff
Whitehaven Coal's Werris Creek mine 15 August 2019 Whitehaven Coal, Australia’s biggest pure-play coal miner, has once again trumpeted coal demand projections based on a scenario that would see the utter failure of the Paris Agreement. “Whitehaven Coal’s plans to...
Media release: AGL management rejects climate resolution
8 August 2019 AGL plans to operate its dirty Loy Yang coal power station until 2048 - Credit: Environment Victoria AGL’s management today advised shareholders to reject a resolution calling on the company, Australia’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, to reduce...
Media release: Commbank out of thermal coal by 2030
New fossil fuel projects must prove carbon compliance Wednesday 7 August 2019 In today’s commitment, made in the bank’s new Environmental and Social Framework, to exit thermal coal by 2030, Commonwealth Bank has issued a stark warning to industry and policy-makers...
General Electric chooses to ignore clean energy transition
Credit: Pexel Photos 10 May 2019 Yesterday in New York at General Electric's (GE) annual general meeting, (AGM) shareholders called out their CEO, H. Lawrence Culp Jr., for GE’s role in constructing new coal-fired power stations around the world, jeopardizing its own...
Santos challenged over its plans to frack the Northern Territory
2 May 2019 Shareholders and board members arriving at Santos’ annual general meeting (AGM) in Adelaide this morning were greeted by a large crowd highlighting Santos’ flagrant disregard for Indigenous land rights and a safe climate. The company plans to open up...
Dulux Group unable to paint a clear picture on climate risk disclosure
20 December 2018. Shareholders were left without concrete answers to important climate questions at the Dulux Group annual general meeting in Melbourne today.
NAB hauled over the coals at its 2018 AGM
NAB was forced to lay bare its contradictory climate and environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies highlighting the vast discrepancy between what the bank says, and what it does during question-time at its annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne.
Washington H. Soul Pattinson flies the coal flag and tells concerned shareholders to “sell their shares”
7 December 2018 "We continue to believe in the long term need and demand for coal" the CEO of Washington H. Soul Pattinson (WHSP), Todd Barlow told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Sydney today. It quickly became clear that climate change...