Australia’s super funds manage trillions of dollars giving them tremendous power to rapidly drive forward the climate transition at the pace and scale required. The future we fund is the future we create.
Australian Retirement Trust (ART, a merger of QSuper and SunSuper) is one of the largest funds in Australia with shares in the biggest fossil fuel polluters. As owners of these companies, ART has the power to influence the make-up of company boards and corporate strategy. ART could use their voting power to force the companies they invest in to move away from coal, oil and gas.
ART has a net zero by 2050 target but no clear plan to reach this critical goal. It’s time for ART to show us its plan for real climate action. As a member of ART, you have the power to push the fund to set strong climate targets and use its superpowers for a future powered by the wind and sun.
Sign the petition to the Australian Retirement Trust:
As members of the Australian Retirement Trust we call on our superannuation fund to show integrity in becoming the climate leader it claims to be.
The Australian Retirement Trust should:
- Adopt science-based 2025 and 2030 emission reduction targets for the entire portfolio and disclose its plan to reach net-zero emissions
- Adopt, and make publicly available, a best practice policy to push companies it invests in to cut emissions in line with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees
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Scale up investment in climate solutions to drive Australia’s transformation to a renewable powered future that’s good for the climate, nature and our communities
Members speaking up puts real pressure on ART to clean up its investments. We've seen this working in recent years with companies like AGL and BHP announcing real plans to cut their emissions in response to pressure from retirement funds.
Latest Supporters
Australia is now a third world country based on its reliance on the price of its resources according to a 2023 Harvard Uni study. Our resources are an asset so why rush in as they’ll be worth more when harnessing of on&offshore gas improves. The best investment around atm is a win win for everyone, ie new technology converting plastic waste into ethylene using solar power! ref to “Plastic Waste Solution” recent article Adelaide Uni researchers!
The time for change has past. You are our doom
I have no super or retirement fund, nevertheless,, I disapprove. 🌈🧡🦇
Divest the polluting companies. Invest in renewables. Protect our precious environment; there is no Planet B.
Peoples voices have the power to change outcomes
I was horrified to learn that ART was investing in the fossil fuel industry. PLEASE invest my money to help save the planet, not destroy it.
Fossil fuels are destroying the biosphere. Their day is over and the same for fossil fuel companies destroying our grandchildren’s future for profit.
Renewables are more profitable! 🙌❤️Protect all countries from inevitable death by curtailing fossil fuel companies.. Fossil fuel companies and supportive superannuation companies are greedily marching towards genocide of our whole planet’s populations. Stop funding the death of our world .
You’re going to lose people if you don’t change the way you do things
We need clean air and a living ecological planet more than fossil fuels