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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.

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27th 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.

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27th 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.

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26th 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.

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19th 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.

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21st 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.

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13th 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.

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7th 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.

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15th 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.

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22nd 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.

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21st 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.

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18th 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.

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16th 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.

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9th 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.

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3rd 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.

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1st 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.

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26th 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.

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19th 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.

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9th 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.

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1st 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

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9th 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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