Bank on our future


The Bank on our Future campaign is a people-powered movement that can stop the flow of money to oil and gas corporations that will trample land rights and wreck our climate.
CommBank, Macquarie and NAB banks end oil & gas lending

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Australian banks are fuelling climate chaos. Only a people-powered movement can stop the flow of money to oil and gas corporations that will trample land rights and wreck our climate.

People power wins
We’ve done it before, we can do it again. Across the world over $14 trillion has been divested from fossil fuels, and here in Australia the big 4 all refused to finance Adani’s coal mine in Queensland because everyday people worked together to shift corporations. Sign up now to join this powerful movement and take action with others. We don’t need more oil and gas. Companies like Santos, Woodside, Origin and Empire have disastrous plans to drill for oil and gas when the world is moving away from fossil fuels and communities are saying NO to fracking fields. Read about the oil and gas fields that threaten our climate.

Australian banks have invested billions into polluting oil and gas fields, while claiming to be climate champions.
• Commbank: Australia’s largest retail bank has funnelled $7 billion towards fossil fuels since 2016.
• Macquarie: Macquarie is a major shareholder of NT fracker Empire Energy and loans billions to oil and gas every year.
• NAB: NAB recently updated their oil and gas lending policy, but it’s full of loopholes. They still lend to oil and gas companies and infrastructure.

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Campaign Details

Group Leading this Campaign: 350.org Australia

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Who this Campaign is Targeting: Commbank, Macquarie and NAB banks

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Campaign Ran From: 2022 to 2024

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Outcome Evidence: As reported in an August 2023 Australian Financial Review article: Commonwealth Bank updated their loan rules in 2023: "customers that derive 15 per cent or more of their revenue from the sale of oil, gas or metallurgical coal must produce a transition plan, audited by a third party, to get a new loan after 2025... Kelly Albion, campaigns director at 350 Australia, said the change meant some of its clients – including Santos, Glencore and Beach Energy – would not be eligible for finance from 2025... But Market Forces said CBA had failed to rule out lending to new liquefied natural gas processing plants, and had left the door open to providing corporate finance to some fossil fuel companies until the end of 2024." (Ascertained March 2024.)

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