Commercial Whaling Back on the Cards – What Role Does Australia Have?
The end to large-scale industrial whaling was realized in 1986 and is seen as one of the few great victories of the environmental movement.
But commercial whaling could be set for a comeback after closed-door negotiations between 12 key countries including Japan and Australia resulted […]
The Economist calls it “The Inconvenient Truth about the oceans”. It’s The End of the Line, a riveting major documentary that investigates the overfishing crisis facing our oceans. This fascinating documentary will soon be showing in Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Newcastle and Sydney.
The End of the Line documents the massive demand for bluefin tuna that could […]
On Friday, Kevin Rudd announced over half a billion dollars in funding for the NSW coal industry. Today, he announced an emissions reduction target and an emissions trading scheme that will have virtually no impact on reducing emissions and will give billions in handouts to the big polluters. This is a climate action plan that […]
People in the Greenpeace office in Sydney are still in shock that Australian PM Kevin Rudd has just announced an atrocious emissions target of 5% by 2020. Staff and volunteers put their heads up over the partitions, mouths agape, when the news went around.
This is one of those moments that puts a very powerful spotlight […]
I’ve been a banner bearer in lots of marches back home and always thought the task was a breeze. That is, until I had to hold the lead banner for our delegation at the Global Day of Action on climate change with Steven, my counterpart from the USA. The temperature was minus zero, we couldn’t […]
As Australian government delegates do nothing in Poznan, our unsupported renewables industry starts to close down back home. Last night, ABC-TV’s 7.30 Report program revealed that hundreds of Australian wind industry employees are about to be sacked, thanks to government inaction on renewables target promises. And there’s a bitter irony. In the same town as […]
Paul Winn, our climate and forests campaigner, is in Poznan to talk about the Greenpeace Forests for Climate proposal.
The world’s forests are more than just carbon sticks and a market offset approach won’t do much to ensure real emissions reductions to help avert catastrophic climate change. Greenpeace proposes a solution that addresses the need to […]
There are still pirates out there, whether they be in a country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) or on the high seas, but they aren’t the swashbuckling kind you see in movies. Today’s pirates aren’t after gold; most are after the Pacific’s treasure – tuna stocks … which are perilously depleting.
Greenpeace International has released an […]