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REPORT: Hero to Zero, uncovering the truth of corporate Australia’s climate action claims
The world is experiencing an unprecedented climate crisis. To stabilise global temperatures, and prevent the situation getting even worse, emissions must reach net zero as soon as possible.
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REPORT: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station
The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a…
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REPORT: Coal-faced, Exposing AGL as Australia’s biggest climate polluter
SYDNEY, 5 May 2021 - AGL, Australia's biggest energy company, is holding back efforts by Australian businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
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Don’t believe the hype: AGL demerger hides the coal truth
Last week, AGL, Australia’s biggest polluter revealed the outcome of its highly anticipated strategic review.
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Socialising the losses: Dirty Yallourn deal must not become coal closure template
The news that Energy Australia would close the Yallourn coal-burning power station in 2028, four years ahead of schedule, drew a chorus of golf claps from the environmental movement when announced last week. But it would have caused an uproar had the truth of the apparent dirty deal between the power company and the Victorian…
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Replacing Liddell with Renewables Cheaper and Less Polluting than Gas
Greenpeace launches the report: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station Report The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex. ||| New modelling undertaken…
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REPORT: Lethal Power, How coal is killing people in Australia
Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in…
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SUBMISSION: To the Independent Planning Commission: Santos’ Narrabri gas project risks farms, water, climate, and community.
The destructive Narrabri fossil gas drilling proposal by Santos is one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia. Greenpeace contributed to the following submission to the Independent Planning…
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REPORT: Recover & Prosper, Recharging the Australian Economy with Clean Energy
We're all feeling the effects of the COVID-19 health crisis and the economic hardship that it has brought about. Some of us are suffering more than others. The pandemic arrived at a time when Australia and our Pacific neighbours were already reeling from an unprecedented climate crisis.
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The government’s role in this year’s black summer
It was only three months ago when the Australian bushfire crisis came to a close after months of devastation. Since then, communities have been picking up the pieces left behind in this black summer’s wake. The New South Wales ‘Mega’ fire, which measures 1.5 million acres, burns on the outskirts of the small town of…