{"id":30127,"date":"2013-05-02T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/2013\/05\/02\/big-4-australian-banks-are-financing-destruction-great-barrier-reef\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:35:26","slug":"big-4-australian-banks-are-financing-destruction-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/big-4-australian-banks-are-financing-destruction-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"The &quot;Big 4&quot; Australian Banks are Financing the Destruction of the Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released today by <strong>Market Forces<\/strong> and <strong>350.org Australia<\/strong> shows how Australia\u2019s \u2018big four\u2019 banks, supported by international investors, are literally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketforces.org.au\/banks.html\"><strong><em>Financing Reef Destruction<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report makes it clear that the \u2018big four\u2019 Australian banks \u2013 ANZ, Commonwealth, NAB and Westpac \u2013 play a critical role in enabling major fossil fuel projects. Combined, these banks lent $3.8 billion to coal ports and LNG terminals in the Great Barrier Reef Word Heritage Area since January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef literally sits in the way of the fossil fuel industry and its massive expansion plans. Of the many new coal terminals planned just one port, Abbot Point, near Mackay, could increase almost nine-fold in capacity to become by far the biggest coal export port ever in the world.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/12114\/financing_the_destruction_of_the_reef.png\" \/>\n<p>350.org Australia and Market Forces are calling on customers of those banks to tell them to stop financing reef destruction or they will pull out their funds and go elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Bill McKibben, coming to Australia in June for a <a href=\"http:\/\/maths.350.org\/australia\">\u201cGlobal Warming: Do the Maths\u201d tour<\/a>, said \u201cWhen you do the maths on avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, there simply isn\u2019t enough room in the carbon budget for new fossil fuel projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to wind down the fossil fuel era with great haste if we\u2019re going to keep the planet from overheating,\u201d McKibben said. \u201cThis report provides Australians with the information they need to make hard decisions about where their money is invested and if it\u2019s helping or destroying the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released today by <strong>Market Forces<\/strong> and <strong>350.org Australia<\/strong> shows how Australia\u2019s \u2018big four\u2019 banks, supported by international investors, are literally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketforces.org.au\/banks.html\"><strong><em>Financing Reef Destruction<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report makes it clear that the \u2018big four\u2019 Australian banks \u2013 ANZ, Commonwealth, NAB and Westpac \u2013 play a critical role in enabling major fossil fuel projects. Combined, these banks lent $3.8 billion to coal ports and LNG terminals in the Great Barrier Reef Word Heritage Area since January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef literally sits in the way of the fossil fuel industry and its massive expansion plans. Of the many new coal terminals planned just one port, Abbot Point, near Mackay, could increase almost nine-fold in capacity to become by far the biggest coal export port ever in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/12114\/financing_the_destruction_of_the_reef.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>350.org Australia and Market Forces are calling on customers of those banks to tell them to stop financing reef destruction or they will pull out their funds and go elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Bill McKibben, coming to Australia in June for a <a href=\"http:\/\/maths.350.org\/australia\">\u201cGlobal Warming: Do the Maths\u201d tour<\/a>, said \u201cWhen you do the maths on avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, there simply isn\u2019t enough room in the carbon budget for new fossil fuel projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to wind down the fossil fuel era with great haste if we\u2019re going to keep the planet from overheating,\u201d McKibben said. \u201cThis report provides Australians with the information they need to make hard decisions about where their money is invested and if it\u2019s helping or destroying the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;Big 4&quot; Australian Banks are Financing the Destruction of the Great Barrier Reef | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/big-4-australian-banks-are-financing-destruction-great-barrier-reef\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ja_JP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &quot;Big 4&quot; Australian Banks are Financing the Destruction of the Great Barrier Reef | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new report released today by Market Forces and 350.org Australia shows how Australia\u2019s \u2018big four\u2019 banks, supported by international investors, are literally Financing Reef Destruction. 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