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Why Australia must protect the Great Barrier Reef from coral bleaching
Stretching over 2,300km and comprising approximately 3,000 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef stands as the largest coral system on our planet. Yet, despite its grandeur, it has relentlessly battled bleaching events in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and now in 2024.
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Greenpeace v Woodside Concise Statement
Please find a link below to the PDF of the concise statement made to the Federal Court of Australia where Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited claims that Woodside Energy Group Ltd has made and continues to make misleading or deceptive representations about its plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in response to climate change.
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Offshore gas amendments a massive step backwards for nature protection, climate action: Greenpeace
“The offshore gas amendments are fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn. They are a massive step backwards, undermining Labor’s commitments to nature protection and leaving our endangered species at risk to the gas industry.
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New Vehicle Emissions Standards legislation to drive real climate action
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed the Federal Government’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards (NVES) legislation as a win for climate action while warning that any emissions reduction traded away now must be made up for later.
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Media Briefing: Australia’s New Fuel Efficiency Standard
Transport currently makes up 20% and the fastest-growing source of emissions in Australia. By 2030 is it anticipated to be our largest source of emissions, as the electricity grid decarbonises.
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Joint deforestation investigation exposes broken national environment law
SYDNEY, Monday 25 March 2024 — A joint investigation by three of Australia’s leading environmental organisations has uncovered multiple instances of large-scale deforestation which were not referred to the federal government for approval.
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Greenpeace risks expulsion from UN seabed authority meeting for peaceful at-sea protest
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) could today expel Greenpeace from the UN deep sea mining body’s meeting, a move that would fundamentally undermine the right to peaceful protest.
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Major milestone reached in historic climate judgement as States submit arguments to world’s highest court
AMSTERDAM / SYDNEY / SUVA, Friday 22 March 2024 — Today marks a significant milestone in the historic campaign to take climate change to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as the deadline for State written submissions closes.
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How Can the Global Ocean Treaty Protect the Emperor Seamounts?
Deep beneath the northern Pacific Ocean lies a remote chain of more than 800 seamounts. These oases of life, known as the Emperor Seamounts, are home to a rich variety of cold-water corals and sponges, as well as smaller creatures like crustaceans and sea stars.
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Kimberley Bernard
Swapping the news studio for ships, former journalist Kimberley is a Senior Communications Advisor at Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Kimberley has spent more than a decade in the ocean conservation movement, both domestically and internationally, campaigning for the protection of our big blue planet. She is a former radio, TV and online journalist with a passion…
