30 June 2022 | News, Press release
We’ve received a tip-off that Lockton, a US-based insurance broker, has been appointed to arrange insurance coverage for Adani’s climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine and rail line. Market Forces followed up with a letter to Lockton putting this information to the...
4 May 2022 | News, Press release
Nearly 12% of shareholders vote for Market Forces / Friends Provident Foundation resolutionResolution called on bank to match ‘net zero by 2050’ rhetoric with action and end the bank’s misaligned financing of fossil fuelsBank’s own climate resolution faced a...
28 April 2022 | News, Press release, Uncategorized
Market Forces volunteers unfurl a huge Standard Chartered – Here For Fossil Fuels’ banner in front of the bank’s London HQ on 19th April 2022. Photo credit: Pete Speller for Market Forces New Market Forces analysis shows the scale of bank’s fossil fuel financing...
19 April 2022 | News, Press release, Uncategorized
Worldwide ‘Day of Action’ sees protests against bank in London, Jakarta and KalimantanHuge “Standard Chartered – Here For Fossil Fuels” banner unfurled in front of bank’s central London HQShareholder resolution coordinated by Market Forces and Friends Provident...
31 March 2022 | News, Press release
Activists protest outside GLAS headquarters in London Debt services company latest target of global campaign against Adani mega-coal mine in Queensland, AustraliaGLAS’ competitors ruling out working with controversial mine ownerProtesters highlighting the resistance...
29 March 2022 | News, Press release
Competing proposals over the future of Standard Chartered’s climate action plansNo further update on last year’s climate policy, as rival banks leave Standard Chartered isolated on climateInvestors face a choice between a plan aligned with net zero, or a plan...
22 March 2022 | News, Press release
Market Forces van outside the central Glasgow branch of Barclays during COP26, November 2021. Photo credit: Market Forces Barclays climate policy – released today with its Notice of AGM – is self-defeating as it allows expansion of the fossil fuel...
2 March 2022 | News, Press release
Market Forces stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, who have been subjected to a brutal and illegal invasion perpetrated by the Russian military. We are also appalled that governments and financial institutions are invested in Russian companies –...
17 February 2022 | News, Press release
A protester outside a Standard Chartered office in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2021. Photo credit: 350.org New briefing shows Standard Chartered’s fossil fuel policy applies to only around half of bank’s 2020 fossil fuel financingStandard Chartered still willing to...
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