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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Butler

Australia’s big four banks face shareholder ire over funding fossil fuels

Market Forces lodged shareholder resolutions with Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, NAB and Westpac aimed at stopping them from financing new fossil fuel projects or the expansion of existing ones.
Market Forces has lodged shareholder resolutions with Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, NAB and Westpac aimed at stopping them from financing new fossil fuel projects or the expansion of existing ones. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Executives at Australia’s big four banks will face anger over funding fossil fuels this annual meeting season, with shareholder activists renewing efforts to force them to account for investments that increase global heating.

At their annual meeting on Wednesday, shareholders at Australia’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth, will consider a resolution lodged by activist group Market Forces that was aimed at stopping it from financing new fossil fuel projects or the expansion of existing ones.

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