When Labor was elected in 2007, Kevin Rudd described climate change as the great moral challenge of our generation.
A year down the track, Rudd’s market-based Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is struggling to get through Senate with the support of either the Greens or the Coalition.
So what happened in between? In an essay published last […]
Not one, not two, but THREE good news stories on the whales front today!!!
1. An end to whaling in Iceland?
If elected at next month’s elections, Iceland’s Socialist/Green Coalition, who are leading in the polls ahead of a vote on 25 April, have said that they will end whaling in early 2010! The outgoing government sneakily […]
This is a first-hand report from Kim Nguyen, who is cycling to Copenhagen this year to raise awareness about climate change in the lead-up to the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the Danish capital in December. He is currently in China, having already cycled from Brisbane.
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Today the big bad news, again, is the failure of the Australian Government to do something decisive on climate change. The Melbourne Age reports that ‘State emission cuts ‘futile’ and would aid polluters’.
Our CEO, Steve Shallhorn writes in the Sydney Morning Herald, where he asks ‘Why is the Federal Government failing to live up to […]
Later this year in Copenhagen, Denmark, governments will seek to finalise a framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. It is our collective last chance to put in place global policies to reduce emissions, to have a roughly 50/50 chance of avoiding runaway climate change.
The International Alliance of Research Universities organised a […]
The news yesterday that the proposed coal mine at Konin, Poland has been suspended is a huge relief to all of us at Greenpeace. The mine became the focal point of our international coal campaign as Poland hosted the United Nations Climate Change meeting last December. We took our Climate Rescue Station to the site, […]
Keith is a small town near South Australia’s border with Victoria and the first stop in the SA leg of a tour by North American farmers Moe Parr and Ross Murray. They are touring canola-growing regions in rural Australia to talk to farmers about their experiences with genetically engineered (GE) crops.
After adjusting to driving […]
From the Capitol Climate Action with 300 people in Washington, to the 2500 strong protest marking the first sitting day of Australian Parliament, to the action overnight in Brussels; people across the world are saying “enough we demand a better world.”
Around the world people are facing their fears of a changing climate and taking arms […]
I’m in Perth at the moment. It’s week 3 of being on the road with Moe Parr and Ross Murray, two farmers from North America here to share their experiences of genetically engineered (GE) crops with Australian farmers.
We kicked off at Yarrawonga, on the banks of the Murray River before we travelled to Melbourne and […]
‘The hand speaks
The hand of a government man…
All I want is to breathe…
…and the heat goes on…(goes on) and the heat goes on’
‘Born under punches’, Talking Heads, 1980
The news today that the coal industry is lobbying Parliament again raises the grave but tedious question, when will Australia’s Coal Mafia give in to climate science and/or […]
Throughout its history, Greenpeace has depended on the passion, vision and courage of its volunteers. Our work relies on the people who care so deeply and share such a strong love of this beautiful planet that they are willing to put themselves on the frontline of environmental issues the world over.
It is with great sadness […]
Our society faces the collision of two tectonic plates. The Global Financial Mess (GFM) is resulting in growing job losses around the world and the global financial system, despite massive public bailouts, is still teetering on the edge of further collapse. This has collided with the much deeper and more profound crisis of climate change. […]
These are the words of glaciologist Jason Box in this breathtaking video of meltwater flow into a glacier’s moulin in Greenland.
Dr Box and physicist Basil Singer are in Greenland to measure the rate at which this glacier is metling. A moulin is a shaft through which surface water, such as meltwater, enters a glacier. They […]