Wednesday 20 May: More than 160 shareholders have joined with Market Forces to demand Macquarie Group explains how increasing its fossil fuel lending, slashing its green energy investments and watering down its climate strategy is consistent with its commitment to the...
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We’re all paying the price of banks and pension funds fuelling climate disasters
By Kyle Robertson, Head of Research, Market Forces. People across Asia and Australia are experiencing another scorching season of deadly and terrifying wildfires, heatwaves and floods. The world has just endured the three hottest years on record according to the World...
Macquarie closes third dirty fracking deal in less than a year
Macquarie is a critical financial backer of what could be Australia’s next biggest gas development in the heart of Australia’s Northern Territory, the Beetaloo Basin. This directly contradicts the bank’s green credentials and violates its commitments to the goals of...
Macquarie receives shareholder revolt on climate at 2025 AGM
2025 AGM result: 35.2% in favour of climate resolution The first ever climate-related shareholder resolution at Macquarie, filed by Market Forces, received significant support from shareholders with a huge 35% of shareholder votes in favour. The resolution called on...
Macquarie under fire on climate from shareholders, customers and scientists
Thursday 24 July: Customers, investors and climate scientists have joined more than 180 shareholders and Market Forces, calling on the AU$85 billion bank and financial services company, Macquarie Group, to disclose the full extent of its financing for coal, oil and...
Empire Energy’s gas fracking fantasies
Will the Empire strike out? Empire Energy (which just changed its name to Beetaloo Energy Australia, but will be referred to as Empire Energy throughout this article) has come under fire over the viability of its dangerous fracking operations in the Northern...
Macquarie faces first ever climate-focused shareholder resolution
Wednesday 21 May: More than 180 shareholders have joined with Market Forces to call on Macquarie Group to disclose the full extent of its financing for fossil fuels and outline how the global financial services company will ensure alignment with its climate...
Macquarie’s slow progress leaves room for gas expansion
25 July 2019 Macquarie Group’s annual general meeting today saw the company face community and shareholder backlash over its advisory role on the huge Rio Grande liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the United States. While Macquarie has made some good progress on...
Macquarie Chairman “not aware” of TCFD’s climate risk disclosure recommendations
At today's annual general meeting in in Melbourne, Macquarie Group Chairman Peter Warne made the startling admission that he "was not familiar" with the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD). While the TCFD...
Climate change denial goes mainstream at Macquarie AGM
28 July 2016 “There are two sides to this debate.” These were the remarks of the Macquarie Group Chairman Peter Warne, after their AGM descended into somewhat of a farce earlier today, as shareholders asked tough questions of a bank that is fast becoming a significant...