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5th March 2025
Investor Bulletin: Update on Shell’s 2025 LNG Outlook
Shell’s latest LNG Outlook increases its forecast for LNG demand growth. The distance between Shell’s LNG demand projection and its net zero target has never been greater.
Read More27th February 2025
Investor Bulletin: What Japan’s new Strategic Energy Plan means for J-POWER
J-POWER will need to take proactive steps to improve the strength of its own transition plan.
Read More27th February 2025
Editorial: BP’s chance for real capital discipline
BP faces growing investor pressure for capital discipline. Being prudent with new investments can align with net-zero goals.
Read More26th February 2025
Investor Bulletin: Woodside’s 2024 Annual Report and Climate Update
Despite chronic share price underperformance and a majority rejection of its climate plan, Woodside is not changing course.
Read More19th February 2025
Investor Bulletin: Countdown to the release of Shell’s 2025 LNG Outlook
All eyes will be on Shell’s latest LNG Outlook when it’s released next week, as the company faces growing scrutiny around its LNG growth strategy.
Read More21st January 2025
Editorial: Putting Shell's LNG strategy under scrutiny
Investors need clarity on how Shell plans to navigate these profound changes in energy markets.
Read More13th January 2025
Investor Bulletin: Shell’s lobbying disclosures make incremental improvements, but step-change is needed
Following investor pressure Shell has increased disclosure of its lobbying in emerging markets. However, Shell is still omitting emerging markets it sees as key growth drivers for its LNG business.
Read More7th January 2025
Editorial: Confront the science – Time for investors to reset climate change expectations
In light of recent scientific, political and corporate developments, the climate finance and governance community needs to take stock, recalibrate, and plan for a step change.
Read More15th November 2024
Investor Bulletin: IEA's 2024 World Energy Outlook
The IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook flips the industry narrative that more fossil fuels are needed for energy security - saying a faster energy transition is crucial for delivering a stable energy supply.
Read More22nd October 2024
Editorial: Placing climate governance front and centre is key to success
As the global energy transition gathers pace and temperature records tumble, acting to mitigate climate risk has become inseparable from good governance.
Read More21st October 2024
Newsletter: science-based stewardship - October 2024
As we navigate the implications of 1.5°C overshoot, the investment community must be alive to the reality that global temperature rise induced physical risks to infrastructure investments will not regress to the mean, but steadily worsen over time.
Read More18th October 2024
Webinar: Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) & climate ‘policy chill’
ACCR, together with Fair Finance International and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), hosted a webinar for institutional investors to learn more about ISDS.
Read More16th October 2024
Investor Bulletin: Understanding BHP’s methane problem
New data suggests that Queensland’s Bowen Basin is Australia’s top methane-emitting hotspot. The region is home to major coal and gas fields - including BHP’s metallurgical coal mines.
Read More9th October 2024
ACCR Annual Review FY23/24
Spanning our AGM activities, company engagements and research, and featuring testimonials from key collaborators, ACCR's Annual Review for FY23/24 shows how we use shareholder rights to protect long-term value and deliver real-world emissions reductions.
Read More3rd October 2024
Webinar: Analysing BHP's 2024 Climate Transition Action Plan
While BHP’s disclosures have improved, its 2024 CTAP falls short on ambition and does not have a capital allocation strategy that matches the scale of the decarbonisation challenge. As a result, ACCR will be voting against this CTAP.
Read More1st October 2024
Investor Bulletin: Chill factor – How does investor-state dispute settlement affect climate policy?
Described as “litigation terrorism” and “the wild wild west of international law”, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is a potent legal tool used by some companies to disrupt positive climate policy settings.
Read More26th September 2024
Investor Bulletin: BHP’s 2024 Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP)
While BHP's 2024 CTAP provides improved disclosures on scope 3, it falls short on ambition and does not have a capital allocation strategy to match the scale of the challenge.
Read More19th August 2024
ACCR Presentation on challenges and opportunities in the NEM transition and implications for AGL
Webinar to explore the challenges facing the Australian energy transition.
Read More9th August 2024
Investor Bulletin: Woodside diversifies into ammonia, but is it decarbonisation?
Woodside’s acquisition of an ammonia project in Texas, USA, is a welcome departure from deploying shareholder capital to long-duration, low-margin and high-emissions oil and gas projects. But this “new energy” investment won’t reduce Woodside’s oil and gas emissions.
Read More1st August 2024
Investor Bulletin: Rio Tinto’s anti-climate advocacy prompts ACCR to disengage from policy collaboration
While ACCR welcomes constructive company engagement, we will not participate in engagements that could rightly be perceived as greenwashing
Read More9th July 2024
Newsletter: science-based stewardship - July 2024
Fossil fuel companies that are actively developing new oil, gas and coal projects and delaying the global transition by lobbying to lock-in demand for their products, are materially increasing the medium to long-term risk profile for all investors.
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