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Greenpeace response to Federal Budget
SYDNEY, Tuesday 11 May 2021 – In response to the Treasurer’s Federal Budget speech, the below comments are attributable to Dr Nikola Čašule, Head of Research & Investigations at Greenpeace Australia Pacific.“In this budget, the Coalition Government is putting on a show of taking action on the symptoms of climate change, without doing anything to…
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UN report reveals methane climate danger, while Fed Govt throws cash at gas
SYDNEY, May 7, 2021 – A major new UN report released today reveals the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from methane, while the Federal Government continues to throw millions at the gas industry in pursuit of a ‘gas led recovery’ which Greenpeace Australia Pacific warns is fuelling dangerous climate change. [1]The Global Methane…
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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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Taylor’s coal plan is fossil fuel ideology gone mad
MELBOURNE, 30 April 2021 – In response to Angus Taylor’s announcement that the Federal Government wants coal power stations to be paid for their capacity rather than their output, Greenpeace Australia pacific spokesperson Nelli Stevenson said that this is “fossil fuel ideology gone mad”.“Paying the drivers of the climate crisis to keep cranking out emissions…
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No thanks to Morrison on climate from Australia or the Pacific
MELBOURNE, 23 April 2021 – In response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments at the Biden Climate Summit overnight, please find the following statements from Greenpeace Australia Pacific below.MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Nelli Stevenson said: “Once again the Federal Coalition Government has made a mockery of Australia on the world stage when…
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Morrison’s flirting not the climate commitment we need
MELBOURNE, Tuesday 20 April 2021 – In response to Scott Morrison’s speech to the Business Council of Australia last night, Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Nelli Stevenson said:“Morrison’s continued flirting with net-zero by 2050 is simply not good enough. In order to protect Australians and our Pacific neighbours from the worsening impacts of climate change like…
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Civil society organisation urge Morrison to life climate ambition
As leading Australian non-profit and environmental organisations, we write to ask that you stand with our Pacific family at the upcoming Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by President Joe Biden on Earth Day, 22nd April.
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Biden Summit: Charities and churches call on Morrison to halve emissions by 2030
SYDNEY, April 15 2021 – More than 10 environmental and humanitarian organisations including Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Oxfam Australia, the Pacific Climate Action Network, The Pacific Conference of Churches, and the Edmund Rice Centre have used a full-page newspaper ad and open letter to urge Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to commit to halving emissions, ahead…
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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…