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WOW! HUGE BANKS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS
The world shifted slightly on its axis today, with three major announcements by some of planet Earth’s largest financial institutions. As world leaders gathered in France to tackle climate change, one of the world’s largest banks, ING, announced that they are finally going to drop coal by 2025. ING Bank is a Dutch finance giant…
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NAB rule out new thermal coal mines
National Australia Bank today issued their latest risk appetite statement which prohibits the funding of any new thermal coal mines.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Yesterday was International Human Rights Day and starts the one year lead up to the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Yesterday was International Human Rights Day and starts the one year lead up to the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of…
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World’s first human rights investigation into corporate responsibility for climate change intensifies
Press release – 10 December, 2017Manila, 11 December 2017 – The world’s first ever national inquiry into the responsibility of the fossil fuel industry for the human rights impacts resulting from climate change hits an important milestone in the Philippines today – one day after Human Rights Day. Companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips,…
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Happy World Antarctica Day
Antarctica holds 90% of the freshwater on the planet, is the biggest desert in the world, and is the only continent with no native human population. The encircling Antarctic Ocean not only provides life and living space for amazing, unique and iconic wildlife, but it also influences other oceans and wildlife thousands and thousands of…
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Greenpeace returning to the Antarctic to push for world’s largest ocean sanctuary
SYDNEY, December 1, 2017 – As a huge marine protected area in the Ross Sea comes into force on World Antarctica Day (Friday 1 December) this year, Greenpeace has announced an ambitious three-month Antarctic expedition. Between January and March 2018, the crew aboard Greenpeace’s iconic Arctic Sunrise vessel will undertake groundbreaking scientific research including a…
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Charities’ message to the NAIF board – keep your hands off taxpayers’ money
Press release – 30 November, 2017December 1, 2017: Board members of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) have been targeted by an alliance of not-for-profit groups in an attempt to prevent them from using more than a billion dollars in taxpayers’ money to help fund Adani’s Carmichael coal mine.Polling released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific…
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What Does Labor’s Victory in the Queensland Election Mean for Adani?
After a heated campaign, it looks like Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Party will win the Queensland state election, defeating the Liberal National Party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. | While there were many issues that moved people’s votes, one thing is clear: the future of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, and Labor’s promised veto of the proposed…
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Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?
“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…
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The People vs Arctic Oil: Historic climate trial ends
Oslo, Norway. Today is the last day in court where three environmental organisations have taken on the Norwegian government for opening up new areas in the Arctic to oil drilling. The plaintiffs have been arguing that drilling for new oil violates the Norwegian Constitution and contravenes the Paris Agreement. Winning the case could set a…
