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A new Australian Conservation Foundation report says the nation's big four banks can't finance Galilee Basin coal projects while meeting their obligations under the Equator Principles.

There are lessons for companies and investors in ANU's decision to divest from seven businesses, and the fall-out from it.

As a major super fund divests from AGL due to its coal exposure, investors say Minerals Council criticisms of ethical funds miss the point.

AMP Capital says its new restrictions on investing in coal and coal-to-liquids companies will have limited practical effect, but show that investors are alert to massive adjustments taking place in the energy sector.

Institutional investors are ignoring a 'bucket of risks' linked to coal mining, says Ben Caldecott of Oxford University's stranded assets program.

Former climate change minister Greg Combet today urged institutional investors to take a stand against companies that try to avoid action on climate change.

Over the next few weeks, banks and fund managers will face increasing scrutiny of their investments in the fossil fuel sector.

• ERF cuts pointless without penalties: Grattan Institute
  
• Low-carbon investment dollars will 'sit on the sidelines'
  
• Seek efficiency gains from existing homes: Master Builders
  
• Carbon price 'costly and ineffective': Refrigerants industry
  
• Farm-based abatement projects won't be the cheapest: NFF

Activist Bill McKibben had some useful messages for institutional investors at a Sydney meeting, according to the Investor Group on Climate Change, while Greens Leader Christine Milne says it's time for the Future Fund to exit fossil fuels.

Australian and international investor groups have demanded that oil and gas companies demonstrate that they are effectively controlling fugitive methane emissions, and they want intensive gas users to exert pressure as well.