Shareholder resolutions filed today with three banks criticise their loans to companies such as Woodside and Whitehaven Coal, and say their TCFD disclosures are inadequate.
A resolution requiring BP to align its business strategy with the Paris Agreement – co-filed by global investors including VicSuper – has received more than 99% support at the company's annual general meeting.
A shareholder who lost her home in a bushfire questioned the QBE board at Friday's annual general meeting, and Rio Tinto has told its AGM that a climate resolution is unacceptable.
The Boral AGM held yesterday confirms the need for environmental executives to fully prepare board members for increasingly sophisticated questions from shareholders on carbon emissions and sustainability.
An alliance of energy generators and consumers today warned that the NEG faces a now-or-never moment, and investors cautioned that serious flaws in the scheme must be fixed.
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.
The local division of activist group 350.org says Australian universities should follow Stanford University's lead, after it yesterday announced it would not invest in the coal industry.