Reports
YouGov: Strong opposition to bank financing of coal in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore
A survey by YouGov has found that over 80% of people in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are concerned about climate change and strong opposition to bank financing of coal
Santos: A Risk Financiers Can’t Afford
Market Forces’ analysis finds Santos, Australia’s second-largest oil and gas company, faces a set of serious strategic, reputational, regulatory, and climate-related financial risks that banks and institutional investors cannot afford to overlook.
The Fossil Fuel Expansion Index
Market Forces has identified a global list of 200 companies with the biggest coal, oil and gas expansion plans. We call this group of companies the Fossil Fuel Expansion Index. Find out how Australian superannuation funds are propping up these companies, the world’s most unforgivable climate polluters.
Fossil fuel blocklist: The companies Australia’s big four banks can no longer touch
Market Forces has developed the first ever Fossil Fuel Company Blocklist for Australian banks: 23 fossil fuel customers of the big four banks whose business models are currently incompatible with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and must be ineligible for any new or renewed finance.
Australia's Gas Guzzlers
The manufacturing sector is Australia’s third-largest consumer of planet-heating methane gas. Replacing gas use with clean solutions will lead to significant emissions reductions and mitigate ongoing risks. This transition also presents a considerable opportunity for Australia to emerge as a green energy superpower in a world increasingly focused on low-carbon solutions.
Pipeline to Nowhere: APA Group's dangerous bet on Beetaloo fracking
APA Group (APA) plans to build gas pipelines for Beetaloo Energy Australia (formerly Empire Energy) and Tamboran Resources, enabling what could be Australia’s biggest ever fracking development in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin. Market Forces' new analysis reveals Australia does not need the gas from Beetaloo fracking for domestic gas power generation needs.
Exposed: Japan’s five largest investors delay clean energy transition
Market Forces’ latest analysis reveals that Japan’s five biggest institutional investors hold US$40.6 billion in companies with the world’s biggest fossil fuel expansion plans as measured by exposure to the Fossil Fuel Expansion Index (FFEI). These investments are increasing climate-related financial risk for economies in Asia.
YouGov: Australians want banks to stop funding fracking
A survey by YouGov has found there is significant opposition to gas fracking in Australia across all states and territories, age groups and regions (rural, provincial and metropolitan).
The Dirty Ten: Banks in Australia still backing fossil fuels
New Market Forces analysis finds 10 retail banks in Australia committed AU $74.4 billion in finance to fossil fuel companies around the world in 2023. The new report also finds that an overwhelming majority of Australian retail banks – 85 out of 103 – do not lend any money to coal, oil and gas.
Japan’s Trading Houses: Losing the Renewable Energy Race
Trading houses, known as “sogo shosha” in Japanese, are large, diversified trading companies that play a crucial role in Japan’s economy. These companies play a major role in expanding gas infrastructure, including liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals and gas power plants, around the world, exacerbating energy insecurity particularly in Asia by increasing the region’s dependence on gas.
Backdowns and broken promises: The super funds failing to bring gas companies into line on climate
Our new analysis reveals that most of Australia’s top 30 super funds failed to vote for greater climate action this year.
Expensive LNG Expansion: How foreign gas interests are a climate disaster for Bangladesh
Bangladesh is facing an energy crisis, having suffered repeated blackouts caused by an increasing over-reliance on expensive and polluting fossil gas imports.
Rather than decreasing dependence on volatile international fossil fuel markets, and prioritising clean domestic renewable energy, Bangladesh is being pushed by foreign interests to double down on liquefied natural gas (LNG).
What kind of future is the Future Fund really investing in?
Market Forces’ new analysis finds that Australia’s sovereign wealth fund is a top 10 shareholder in three of Australia’s worst climate wreckers – Woodside Energy, Santos and Whitehaven Coal – with more than $1 billion worth of shares in these companies combined.
Banking Climate Failure
The broken climate promises of Australia's big four banks.
Could major super funds already divested from Whitehaven Coal start getting back in?
Our new analysis has found that some of Australia’s largest super funds could re-invest their members’ retirement savings in Whitehaven Coal, after having already excluded this climate wrecker through policy.
The Climate Wreckers Index
Out of the tens of thousands of companies our superannuation funds could invest in, Market Forces has identified a global list of 190 companies doing most of the climate wrecking by expanding the coal, oil and gas industries.
Hot air: How pumped-up active ownership claims are failing our climate
Market Forces’ latest analysis shows there is no correlation between investor support for directors at major fossil fuel developers and those companies’ climate performance.
Do you pay more tax than the big fossil fuel companies?
Investor Disconnect on Climate Risk
Executives reveal mismatch between reality of climate risks and corporate reputation
The Great Superannuation Greenwash
How Australia’s largest super funds are using members’ retirement savings to vote against climate action
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