Breaking free from fossil fuels

Let's accept it. Climate change is a reality and current and future generations are up against the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced.

If you’ve been reading newspapers, listening to the Abbott Government, or paying attention to mining companies lately - you’d be forgiven for thinking the Carmichael megamine project is ready to bring thousands of jobs and tens of billions of dollars to Australia. Sadly, you couldn't be further from the truth. Here's our coal industry fact check.

Since Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu and the Pacific in March, 75,000 people have been left in dire need of emergency shelter and other goods to restore their lives and homes.

Climate change is not a faraway nightmare. It’s real, it’s here, and it’s changing the way humans live. We’re seeing the effects all around us - polar ice melting, sea level rising and extreme weather events.

This Monday, Environment Minister Greg Hunt and Shadow Environment Minister Mark Butler will be on the panel of the ABC’s Q&A programme.

Scientists made it clear that we have an important choice to make - we can have the Reef, or we can have coal, but we can’t have both.

If you had a policy that delivered billions worth of investment in Australian industry, created tens of thousands of jobs, cut living costs for Australians and worked to build the infrastructure of the future all while fighting climate change - what would you do?

Over the last 15 years, Greenpeace India has had some important victories.

Official data from China shows coal use continuing to fall precipitously – bringing carbon dioxide emissions down with it.