26 October 2022 Whitehaven Coal faced backlash from big investors and community members both inside and outside its annual general meeting, held in Sydney today. Despite record coal prices and company profits, more than a fifth of Whitehaven’s shareholders demanded the company stop expanding and start managing down coal mining … Read More
“How Shareholders Can Promote Corporate Decarbonisation” – address to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
On 27 June 2022, Market Forces Executive Director Julien Vincent made an address to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan with a speech titled “How Shareholders Can Promote Corporate Decarbonisation”. A recording of the press conference and Julien’s introductory speech can be found below: From the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of … Read More
Shareholders demand coal wind down plan from Whitehaven
Media release: 25 August 2022 – For Immediate Release Market Forces and Whitehaven Coal shareholders have filed a resolution, calling on one of Australia’s largest coal miners to wind down its production in line with global climate goals. The resolution points out the glaring inconsistency between Whitehaven’s public declarations of … Read More
14.5% of shareholders tell Woodside to start winding down production
19 May 2022 Responding to the shareholder vote on the Market Forces-coordinated shareholder resolution at Woodside’s AGM in Perth today, Market Forces Asset Management Campaigner Will van de Pol said: “Today 49% of Woodside’s shareholders rejected the company’s utterly inadequate approach to climate change, the largest vote against any Say … Read More
Investors give QBE a free pass despite hypocrisy on climate
6 May 2022 A shareholder resolution calling on QBE to align its oil and gas underwriting and investment with the goals of the Paris Agreement achieved 19.8% support at QBE Insurance’s AGM yesterday. As has been the case for several years now, the AGM was dominated by questions regarding QBE’s … Read More
Investor demands for Santos to wind down oil and gas production increase to 15%
3 May 2022 15% of Santos’ shareholders today defied the company’s board, demanding Santos drop its rampant oil and gas expansion plans and instead manage down production in line with a net zero emissions by 2050 pathway. This is an increase on the 13% support received for a similar resolution … Read More
Corporate Japan faces record number of climate shareholder resolutions
TOKYO, Japan, 13 April 2022 Market Forces, Kiko Network, 350.org Japan, Friends of the Earth Japan, Rainforest Action Network Corporate Japan will this year face a record-high number of climate-focused shareholder resolutions. Today, shareholders announced four climate resolutions targeting SMBC Group, Mitsubishi Corporation, and TEPCO and Chubu Electric, over their … Read More
Santos’ oil and gas portfolio would halve in value under the IEA’s net zero by 2050 scenario
30 March 2022 Buried on page 40 of Santos’ new Climate Change Report is a damning chart, showing the value of the company’s oil and gas portfolio would drop by around half under the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 scenario. Santos projects this fall could be offset by … Read More
QBE supports Paris and net zero with words, undermines them with actions
For immediate release: 18 February 2022 QBE’s willingness to underwrite new oil and gas projects will see it once again face a shareholder resolution, coordinated by Market Forces and co-filed with Australian Ethical, an investor managing over $6.5 billion as of September 2021. The resolution calls on QBE to align … Read More
Woodside’s climate ‘plan’ full of hot air
17 February 2022 Reacting to Woodside’s Climate Report released today, Market Forces Asset Management Campaigner Will van de Pol said, “Woodside’s three point ‘plan’ to address its gargantuan scope 3 emissions profile amounts to nothing more than more hot air.” “Investors must see through the greenwash and demand the company … Read More