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Australia’s Transport-Driven Emissions Spike Demonstrates Need To Get Moving On Clean Cars
New Australian emissions data shows that climate pollution increased in 2021, with a faster transition to renewables and the electrification of transport key to course correcting, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said. Australia’s greenhouse gas pollution rose by 0.8 per cent - 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide - in 2021, largely attributed to transport and reliance…
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WA’s Clean Transition Picks Up The Pace With 80% By 2030 Emissions Reduction Target For State Utilities
The McGowan Government setting a strong emissions reduction target of 80% by 2030 for state government agencies is a welcome step in the state’s renewable energy transition, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. McGowan’s power move, which covers state owned utilities such as railways, vehicle fleets, hospitals and schools, follows Western Australia’s announcement last week that its…
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‘Anti-Competitive And Morally Repugnant’ Coal And Gas Companies To Blame As Enova Enters Into Voluntary Administration
News that Australia’s first community-owned electricity retailer Enova Energy has been forced into voluntary administration is a damning indictment of the greed of the coal and gas companies which are at the heart of the energy crisis that is hurting Australian households and businesses, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. Enova tied for first place in Greenpeace…
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AGL’s Unreliable Coal A Dirty Rat Eating Away At Household Wallets
News that AGL’s Loy Yang A coal-burning power station will be offline until September, on top of additional outages at its Bayswater and Liddell stations, shows the need for AGL to rapidly embrace renewable energy in order to reduce its climate pollution and help bring down prices for Australian households, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. AGL…
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The Gas Industry’s Greed Has Fuelled The Energy Crisis
The greed of the Australian gas industry and its desire to turn vast profits on the export market has manufactured an artificial “energy crisis” that is hurting Australians, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific.Today Energy Minister Chris Bowen will meet with state and territory counterparts to discuss solutions to the energy price spike, as coal and gas…
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Ding, Dong, AGL’s Demerger Is Dead – Now Ditch The Dud Leadership
Energy giant AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, has ditched its planned demerger, which Greenpeace Australia Pacific has labelled “one of the most bungled and misguided attempts at a corporate restructure in Australian history. Glenn Walker, senior campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said that the failure of AGL’s demerger is representative of the failure of vision…
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Labor Government’s 2030 Renewables Target Renders AGL’s Demerger A Dead Duck
Labor’s victory and the overwhelming vote for climate-focused candidates marks the death knell for AGL’s proposed demerger, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. The incoming government's Powering Australia policy [1] is to ensure renewables will make up 82 per cent of the National Electricity Market (NEM) by 2030, which closely aligns with AEMO’s industry-backed step change scenario…
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Climate Dinosaurs Declared Extinct At Federal Election
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has declared the Morrison Government’s decisive loss in the polls is “the only time you’ll ever see us celebrating an extinction event”, adding that Australians have voted for the climate in giving the Coalition the boot. Australian voters have named climate change as a top concern in pre-election polling and this has…
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Optus Says YES To 100% Renewable Energy
Telco giant Optus has today become the final major Australian telco to commit to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2025, putting the telecommunications industry back out in front of the corporate energy transition according to a new industry briefing by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Optus is the 38th largest electricity user in Australia, using 539GWh…
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“Arrogant” Woodside Gaslights The United Nations, IEA And CSIRO At Chaotic AGM
Gas company Woodside has displayed “breathtaking arrogance” at its Annual General Meeting today, disregarding the expertise of the United Nations, the International Energy Agency, investor groups and the climate concerns of the community, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Woodside was assailed with a barrage of questions from shareholders, environmental groups and concerned community members at its…
