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Landmark forest protection deal at risk from industry
Press release – 24 November, 2010A landmark US$1 billion deal between Indonesia and Norway – intended to halt deforestation and reduce carbon emissions – is in danger of being squandered.zoom Oil Palm Plantation in Borneo © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace Expansion plans show how palm oil, paper and pulp sectors intend to utilise the Indonesian…
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Minister Burke fails to protect iconic Southern Bluefin Tuna
Press release – 24 November, 2010Today, Australia’s Environment Minister failed to take the action needed to protect the iconic Southern Bluefin Tuna from overfishing.Minister Burke has decided not to class Southern Bluefin Tuna as a critically endangered species on Australia’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act List. Greenpeace’s spokesperson Genevieve Quirk said that “Minister…
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ANZ exposed by secret pollution deal
Press release – 21 November, 2010Greenpeace is condemning ANZ’s hypocrisy after revelations the bank tried to hide a $150 million loan to recommission a highly polluting power station in Western Australia. This came just two weeks after accepting a major international award for ‘climate change mitigation and environmental performance.’This weekend’s Financial Review revealed that the…
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NSW Labor plans for more dirty coal power stations put to the test
Press release – 15 November, 2010Land and Environment Court Papers will be filed today in the Land and Environment Court by the Hunter Community Environment Centre (HCEC) that will challenge the State government’s decision to rehabilitate one of the State’s oldest and dirtiest power stations – Munmorah.If Munmorah is allowed to be rehabilitated, rather than…
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Australia’s food security and economy assailed by dual threats
Press release – 28 October, 2010Two serious threats to Australia’s food security and economy are today highlighted with the looming threat to Australia’s largest export crop coinciding with the news Australia is now a net importer of food.Australia is poised to become the first country in the world to allow genetically engineered wheat crops, following…
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Greenpeace does a bank job
Press release – 21 October, 2010This morning at 8.15 am (EST) Greenpeace activists scaled ANZ’s Brisbane HQ at 324 Queen Street, hanging a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo: ‘ANZ: We pollute your world’”Despite boasting to customers of its plans to be carbon neutral, ANZ is the biggest financer of pollution in Australia,”…
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Greenpeace urges dirtiest bank to come clean
Press release – 21 October, 2010Greenpeace activists have ended today’s protest at ANZ after the company agreed to high level discussions on the future financing of polluting power.The climbers had been in place since 8.15 am (EST) this morning, having scaled ANZ’s Queensland HQ to hang a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo:…
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Greenpeace illuminates ANZ as Australia’s dirtiest bank
Press release – 20 October, 2010Last night (Tuesday) Greenpeace launched a new campaign to illuminate the role of ANZ as the biggest financier of polluting coal power in Australia.Greenpeace activists projected a new ANZ logo and tag line "We Pollute Your World" onto a cooling tower at Yallourn – one of Australia’s dirtiest coal power…
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PNG: Not ready for REDD
Press release – 18 October, 2010Nagoya, Monday 25 October 2010: Today, at the Convention of Biological Diversity being held in Japan, Greenpeace released a report explaining why the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is in no fit state to receive international funding for REDD – a global deal to stop deforestation and mitigate climate…
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New coal in Victoria poses first big test for Gillard Government
Press release – 15 September, 2010Sydney, September 15, 2010 – Greenpeace is calling on the new Gillard Government to live up to its election promises and block the construction of a new brown coal-fired power station.Plans have been released today by the Victorian Environmental Protection Agency for a 600-megawatt brown coal plant to be built…
