Climate Justice

CURRENT CASE: Supporting Traditional Owners to challenge the notorious McArthur River Mine Garawa elder Jack Green and Gudanji woman and native title rightsholder Josie Davey Green are challenging the NT government’s support for Glencore’s notorious McArthur River zinc lead mine. CURRENT CASE: First Nations leaders sue Commonwealth over climate change First Nations leaders from remote […]
Challenge the notorious McArthur River Mine, sue Commonwealth over climate change, and force CommBank to disclose climate risk.

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CURRENT CASE: Supporting Traditional Owners to challenge the notorious McArthur River Mine
Garawa elder Jack Green and Gudanji woman and native title rightsholder Josie Davey Green are challenging the NT government’s support for Glencore’s notorious McArthur River zinc lead mine.

CURRENT CASE: First Nations leaders sue Commonwealth over climate change
First Nations leaders from remote islands in Guda Maluyligal in the Torres Strait are taking the Australian Government to court for failing to prevent climate change.

PAST CASE: Mum and Dad shareholders force CommBank to disclose climate risk
Mum-and-dad shareholders backed in by the Grata Community and the legal team at Environmental Justice Australia to took on CommBank over their failure to consider the risks of climate change to their shareholdings. This…

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Campaign Details

Group Leading this Campaign: Grata Fund

Who this Campaign is Targeting: Glencore, the Commonwealth, Commbank

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Campaign Ran From: 2023 to 2025

Campaign Outcome: ,

Outcome Evidence: The Grata Fund supports a number of diferent Climate Justice cases. In 2020 they supported mum and data shareholders to force the Commonwealth Bank to disclose climate risk in its annual report. They also supported two Traditional Owners, Garawa elder Jack Green and Gudanji woman and native title rightsholder Josie Davey Green as they launched a judical review of the NT government’s decision to reduce the amount of money Glencore needs to put aside to clean up the site, this was ultimately unsuccessful. They are currently supporting First Nations leaders from remote islands in Guda Maluyligal in the Torres Strait who are taking the Australian Government to court for failing to protect them from climate change. (Ascertained May 2024.)

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