Will Australia Choose Coal or Climate?: Scientific American
Environment • December 2010 • Views: 747
SYDNEY — Earlier this month, as Sydney’s financial district hummed during the early-morning rush hour, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner outside of ANZ Bank that read, “ANZ Polluting Your World.”
It sought to saddle the bank with a bad reputation for financing large coal-fired power projects, and put the nearby Reserve Bank of Australia on notice that public investment in projects that expand coal’s role in the economy is just as unacceptable.