11-08-2017 06:31 via theguardian.com

New CBA case a warning: Step up on climate change, or we’ll see you in court | John Hewson

Despite the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and popular support for action, governments and financiers are failing to act. This will have to change John Hewson is a professor at ANU and a former Liberal leaderIn a global first, Australian mum-and-dad shareholders Guy and Kim Abrahams have launched a case against the Commonwealth Bank, arguing that the bank has breached the law by not disclosing the risks climate change poses to its business.Buying their shares over 20 years ago, Guy and
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