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Community leaders from the Northern Territory, climate scientists, doctors and shareholders joined forces against fracking at APA’s annual general meeting.

Australia's big four banks provided $43.4 billion to the world’s biggest coal, oil and gas companies in the last decade. 💰

The due date for cutting off finance has well and truly passed. Our Blocklist report outlines exactly which companies should have their funds cut off.

Our Indonesian team ramped up the heat on Harita and the banks funding its coal-powered nickel production.

Watch this space in 2026. 👀

Two community organisations revealed they had dropped #HESTA as their default super fund, following HESTA's refusal to engage more effectively as a shareholder in major oil and gas companies, to push for an end to their expansion plans.

Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) joined a growing number of banks refusing finance for the planned #PapuaLNG project! 🎉

This oil and gas development led by #TotalEnergies could impact 12,700 Indigenous people and increase pressure on incredibly endangered species.

The fossil fuel industry churns out a lot of spin, but what do Australians actually want?
✅ More #RenewableEnergy
❌ Not more gas

Shareholders dealt #Macquarie the biggest vote against a bank on climate grounds in Australia’s history!

Macquarie is a key source of funding for the Beetaloo fracking development in the Northern Territory — which doctors, communities and farmers are all calling to be halted.

Japanese bank SMBC's mascot is an otter — an animal under threat from climate change. 🦦

On #WorldOtterDay, people came together across Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands and the US to call on #SMBC to stop financing polluting gas.

Mitsubishi withdrew from a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and associated gas power plant in Bangladesh! 🎉

Bangladesh has some of the worst air quality on Earth, and the people living there deserve cheap, clean energy — not decades of gas pollution.

Major Australian banks #CommBank and #NAB adopted policies ruling out new finance for most coal, oil, and gas companies pursuing fossil fuel expansion plans — great progress. 👏

International accounting standards must be enforced consistently at the national level. If not, investors will not receive complete or comparable information to enable them to make informed decisions.

Read the report: carbontracker.org/reports/asse...
#AssetRetirementObligations #decommissioning

As the energy transition gathers pace, more regulatory scrutiny is urgently needed to improve transparency about how oil and gas companies report decommissioning and clean up liabilities in their accounts.

Oil and gas companies in Australia disclosed just 19% of critical information about decommissioning costs for oil and gas infrastructure according to new @carbontracker.bsky.social research.

Westpac has quietly skyrocketed to become Australia’s second biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion — putting Australians in the firing line of more deadly bushfires, cyclones and floods while branding itself as a climate champion.

Take action 🔥 marketforces.org.au/westpac