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Has Lockton put ethics aside to back Adani’s disastrous coal mine?

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...

Standard Chartered AGM – shareholders rebel against management on climate change

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...

ANALYSIS: Standard Chartered funds fossil fuel projects in 2021 that will emit five times the entire UK’s annual emissions

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...

Standard Chartered Bank hit with protests on opposite sides of the world as AGM vote on ending fossil fuel expansion finance approaches

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...

London-based financial services company GLAS latest to risk shattering its reputation on Adani’s coal project

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...

Net zero vs zero ambition – the choice at Standard Chartered AGM

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...
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  • Has Lockton put ethics aside to back Adani’s disastrous coal mine?
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  • ANALYSIS: Standard Chartered funds fossil fuel projects in 2021 that will emit five times the entire UK’s annual emissions
  • Standard Chartered Bank hit with protests on opposite sides of the world as AGM vote on ending fossil fuel expansion finance approaches
  • London-based financial services company GLAS latest to risk shattering its reputation on Adani’s coal project

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