Breaking free from fossil fuels

  • Six reasons electric cars are transforming the automobile industry

    24 April 2018
    Greenpeace Australia Pacific

    Electric cars get plenty of lip service, but for all the talk, a lot of people still know relatively little about these eco-friendly vehicles. They are a surprisingly smooth ride, produce low levels of emissions and recharge themselves in traffic jams. Let's explore some more fun facts.

  • Tiny organisms, massive impact

    6 April 2018
    Greenpeace Australia Pacific

    The lifeforms in the ocean that don’t appear on conservation websites are microorganisms – the ‘unseen majority’...

  • Coal, Guns, and Secrecy: Why you need to know about Efic

    7 March 2018

    Large-scale, detrimental fossil-fuel projects (think Adani’s Carmichael coal mine) need one key thing in order to go ahead. Funding. But where does this funding come from? Well, in a lot of cases, it comes from banks.

  • 5 signs your food system is broken

    7 March 2018

    Food is fascinating. It sustains us, but it’s so much more than that. We use food as a way to celebrate, make friends and even make statements about who we are and what we stand for. Food production supports farming families. But the intensive production of some kinds of food is taking a heavy toll on our planet, our environment and ourselves. Here’s five ways the food system is broken, and how we can change it.

  • Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?

    24 November 2017

    “We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.” These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is just one sign that ensuring healthy oceans is fast becoming recognised as indivisible from tackling climate change.

  • What Happens here affects us all

    17 November 2017

    Climate change doesn’t discriminate and it knows no borders. Carbon emissions in Europe are causing sea levels to rise and submerging low-lying islands thousands of kilometres away. That’s why Pacific Island Represent has taken a detour from Bonn in Germany, to Oslo in Norway, to bear witness at the historic The People vs Arctic Oil trial.

  • Four Beautiful Places Threatened by Climate Change

    16 November 2017

    People v. Arctic Oil , our court case agains the Norwegian Government, is happening right now! Although the court case is focusing on oil drilling in the Arctic, it’s so important to realise that this legal battle will make waves all around the world. Why? Because when it comes to climate change ‘what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, it affects us all.’ Here are some of the most beautiful locations that are at risk;