by Will van de Pol | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Feature, News
11 October 2023 Today, Commonwealth Bank faced questions from shareholders over the remaining gaps in its climate policy. This year, Market Forces, along with hundreds of shareholders decided not to file a resolution on climate-related risk at the CommBank AGM. This...
by Vishad Sharma | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog, Feature, Fossil Fuels, Gas, News, Shareholder action at AGMs, Woodside
28 April 2023 Company directors under fire Nearly 35% of Woodside Energy’s shareholders voted against board member Ian Macfarlane’s re-election at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Perth today. Investors also voted significantly against the re-election of...
by msurowiec | Oct 26, 2022 | Actions, Blog, Coal, Feature, News, Shareholder action at AGMs, Whitehaven Coal
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...
by Matt Tomkins | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog, Feature, Japan, News, Shareholder action at AGMs
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...
by Matt Tomkins | Aug 25, 2022 | Media releases, News, Whitehaven Coal
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...
