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Life in plastic, not fantastic: Australian govt must champion strong plastics treaty
SYDNEY, TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2024 - As negotiators from 176 nations meet this week to develop an international treaty on plastic pollution, Greenpeace is urging the Australian government to back a Global Plastics Treaty with strong plastic reduction targets that will put an end to single-use plastics in Australia.
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OCEANIA: Our oceans’ new defender
It’s here – it has a new kick-ass name, and it’ll soon be on the high seas to protect what we love.
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‘Like a pub without beer’: Govt’s new enviro protection agency must be backed by nature law overhaul
SYDNEY, Tuesday 16 April 2024 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called on the federal government to urgently back up the establishment of the new environmental protection agency, Environment Protection Australia (EPA), with the promised overhaul of Australia’s broken national nature law.
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‘A deadly blow’: Confirmation of global mass coral bleaching event a direct result of fossil fuel decisions
SYDNEY, Tuesday 16 April 2024 — The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have today confirmed the world is experiencing its fourth global coral bleaching event — the second in the last 10 years.
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‘Don’t bow to mining lobby’: Leading environment orgs urge swift action on national nature law reform
SYDNEY, Wednesday 10 April 2024 — Australia’s largest environmental organisations have urged the federal government to drive forward ambitious reforms to the national nature law this term amidst reports of backlash from the mining industry.
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Report: People vs Plastic – Global support for a strong Plastics Treaty
Plastic pollution has flooded our planet. Pollution from plastics touches every corner of the globe reaching the deepest parts of our oceans, the highest mountain peaks and even contaminating our rainwater. Plastics harm multiple ecosystems at every stage of their life cycle, damaging people’s health, accelerating social injustice, destroying biodiversity and fuelling the climate crisis.
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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.
