18 October 2017 Shareholders today grilled Aurizon over its plans to build a railway that would open up the Galilee Basin to coal mining. The coal haulage company currently has a financing bid before the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), rivalling...
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Bluescope Steel – still a long way to go on climate risk
11 October 2017 Major energy user Bluescope Steel made the right noises about limiting emissions at the company's annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne today, but failed to commit to strong climate action. Despite clear evidence that a global transition away from...
Big banks still supporting Whitehaven’s dirty coal operations
Whitehaven Coal's Maules Creek mine was recently upgraded to the EPA's highest environmental risk category, making it one of NSW's three dirtiest mines. The company is also planning to expand its Vickery coal mine, which the local community is resisting due to grave...
Putting climate and human rights centre stage
Around Australia, shareholders are acting to make companies take climate change and human rights seriously. Super fund members like you can help their cause by telling your fund to vote your retirement savings in favour of resolutions that protect people and planet....
Suncorp to divest from fossil fuels?
21 September 2017 At Suncorp's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Brisbane today, company chair Ziggy Switkowski made the quite unexpected commitment to reduce the company's fossil fuel exposure to an 'immaterial' amount over the next two years. The revelation came in...
Media Release: Shareholders move to force Commbank to manage climate risk
28 August 2017 Shareholders have lodged a first-of-its-kind resolution with Commonwealth Bank that would embed climate change risk management into its constitution. It comes a month after shareholders began court proceedings against the bank over its failure to...
Media release: Origin Energy faces three shareholder resolutions
23 August 2017 Coordinated by environmental finance group Market Forces, shareholders in Origin Energy have filed a series of resolutions with the oil and gas major. View ASX announcement. The three resolutions, to be heard at Origin’s October AGM, call for greater...
Analysis: Commbank’s 2017 climate policy update
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...
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...