'Go after the money': Goldman environmental prize winner honoured for urging banks to divest from coal

Julien Vincent's Market Forces organisation started with a spare laptop and a spare bedroom before raising the ire of the former Coalition government Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe laptop was second-hand, but Julien Vincent had a spare room and a very, very big idea: could he start a movement to convince Australia's biggest financial institutions to stop investing the billions of dollars that sustained the fossil fuel industry?"There wasn't much to lose really," says Vincent. "But yes, I was nervous early on because of the significance of the people we were taking on. The banks and the fossil fuel industry ... they'll be as cold and ruthless as they can be." Continue reading...