9 May 2019 The vast majority of Rio Tinto's investors - which includes just about every super fund in Australia - today failed to ensure the company acts to manage down its exposure to climate change risk. A Market Forces-coordinated shareholder resolution was put to...
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Did your super fund vote for climate action?
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id="1" ][cs_element_row _id="2" ][cs_element_column _id="3" ][cs_text _order="0"]You may have seen our recent research revealing that the vast majority of Australia's biggest super funds are regularly voting against climate action at...
ANZ finance the purchase of Rio’s last coal mine
5 April 2018 ANZ has contributed to a US$1.7 billion (AU$2.2 b) deal to finance the purchase of Rio Tinto's last coal asset by Indonesian coal miner Adaro Energy and private equity manager EMR Capital. The deal comes despite ANZ's repeated claims that the...
Shareholders put climate front and centre
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2017 AGM: Rio Tinto ignore community and climate concerns
4 May 2017 Rio Tinto has been taken to task over its slow response to investors' climate concerns. At the company's London annual general meeting last year, shareholders passed a resolution calling on the company to disclose their strategy for dealing with the risks...
Media release: Crowdfunding campaign sends Bulga locals to confront mining giant Rio Tinto at its AGM
4 MAY 2016 Three local residents from the historic town of Bulga in the New South Wales Hunter Valley are set to bring their campaign opposing Rio Tinto’s coal mine expansion at Mt Thorley Warkworth directly to the company’s AGM in Brisbane on Thursday. This follows a...
Bulga to Brisbane update: Thanks and final preparations
3 May 2016 After an incredible response to our crowdfunding campaign, Bulga residents Aneemaree and Rob McLaughlin and Judith Leslie are now preparing to take their fight up to Rio Tinto at the company's annual general meeting (AGM) in Brisbane on Thursday. The...