Woodside has made a habit out of dismissing shareholders’ concerns about climate change over the years, and today’s annual general meeting (AGM) was no different. On top of pressure from major investors like Aware Super and HESTA, the company faced a barrage of...
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Top super funds greenwashing by backing gas expansion
Monday 2 December: New Market Forces analysis reveals most top Australian super funds are greenwashing and failing to use their influence to drive greater climate action at major gas companies. The analysis of the top 30 super funds’ voting disclosures finds that only...
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund invests $1 billion in big coal and gas
Thursday 24 October: New Market Forces analysis reveals that the Future Fund has more than $1 billion invested in three of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel expanding companies, Woodside Energy, Santos and Whitehaven Coal. The analysis finds the Future Fund is a top 10...
HESTA member submits legal request for information after fund’s ineffective efforts to push for change at Woodside
A HESTA member has today increased pressure on her super fund for failing to demand an end to Woodside’s climate-wrecking gas expansion plans. Long-term HESTA member, multidisciplinary artist and musician Tash Parker has submitted a legal request for information to...
Super funds invest $39 billion in fossil fuel growth
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 28 May: A new Market Forces report reveals Australia’s top 30 super funds have more than $39 billion invested in companies globally with the biggest fossil fuel expansion plans. Investments in this group of 190 companies - dubbed The Climate...
Opinion: Woodside’s oil and gas investor firestorm
By Will van de Pol, CEO, Market Forces Australia’s largest oil and gas company Woodside is under fire and the company’s Chair, Richard Goyder is in damage control ahead of crucial votes by investors at the annual general meeting (AGM) this week. Mr Goyder is up for...
New Analysis: Australia’s biggest super fund backs top fossil gas producer
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 12 September, 2023: New analysis by Market Forces reveals Australia’s biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, is one of the top five shareholders in the country’s largest oil and gas company, Woodside, increasing to 85 million shares in 2022. The...
Woodside pushing ahead with Trion oil field, another project out of line with Paris climate goals
20 June 2023 Climate wrecking oil and gas company Woodside has today made the decision to proceed with a new offshore oil field, once again demonstrating a complete disregard for investor demands to align with global climate goals. Woodside today made the final...
Westpac sees climate impacts, increases fossil fuel exposure
Westpac, which has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 and the goals of the Paris Agreement, revealed an 11% increase in FY22 of its overall exposure to fossil fuels, with the increases attributed to customers in the coal rail transportation, LNG terminal, and oil...
ANZ missing its own climate mark
ANZ, which claims to be committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 and the goals of the Paris Agreement, today revealed significant increases in the emissions intensity of its power generation portfolio and its overall oil and gas exposure. In FY22, ANZ increased...