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Adani’s telling meltdown over Westpac’s new climate policy

Posted May 3, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: Adani, Australia, climate, coal, divestment, Energy, India, mining

The angry denunciation of Westpac’s new climate policy – which rules out funding for new mines in the Galilee Basin – serves only to underscore how crucial support from at least one major Australian bank was to Adani’s push to win finance for its beleaguered Carmichael coal project.

2015: The year the coal industry woke up from a nightmare … and found it was real

Posted December 17, 2015 by Bob Burton
Tags: China, coal, divestment, stranded assets

This time last year the global coal industry was telling investors that, despite the tough times of 2014, things would be better in 2015. The opposite has proven to be the case.

Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: Funds worth $1 trillion divest from fossil fuels

Posted December 2, 2015 by Laura
Tags: divestment

More than 100 institutions controlling $US800 billion ($1.09 trillion) in funds worldwide have opted to make new divestments of at least some of their fossil fuel assets in the 10 weeks running up to the Paris climate summit, according to campaign groups 350.org and Divest-Invest.

CoalWire 99, August 20, 2015

Posted August 19, 2015 by Bob Burton
Tags: Australia, CCS, China, coal moratorium, Colombia, divestment, Galilee Basin, Germany, India, Indonesia, metallurgical coal, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, US, Vietnam

Pacific nation calls for coal moratorium; Islamic leaders back divestment; protest shuts German mine; China to idle coal plants.

CoalWire 92, June 18, 2015

Posted June 17, 2015 by Bob Burton
Tags: Adani, air pollution, Arch Coal, Australia, BHP Billiton, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Catholic Church, CCS, Central Kalimantan, China, coal shipping, Corruption, divestment, Europe, Evraz, Galilee Basin, Haju mine, India, IndoMet coal project, Indonesia, International Energy Agency, J-Power, Japan, just transition, Kosovo, Linc Energy, metallurgical coal, Montenegro, Mozambique, New Zealand, Osaka Gas, Pakistan, Peabody Energy, Peterhead, Philippines, PM2.5 pollution, Pope, Queensland, Russia, Serbia, Shanghai Electric, Shell, Standard Chartered, T4, Thar, UK, Ukraine, Vietnam, Vinod Adani, Zambia

Indonesia’s Coal-Trafficking Problem; New Air Pollution Study; Employees Sue US coal Companies For Not Divesting.

Tag: divestment

Adani’s telling meltdown over Westpac’s new climate policy

2015: The year the coal industry woke up from a nightmare … and found it was real

Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: Funds worth $1 trillion divest from fossil fuels

CoalWire 99, August 20, 2015

CoalWire 92, June 18, 2015