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Communities again paying the price for Morrison’s failure to act on climate warnings
The floods that inundated Australia’s east coast over recent weeks have taken 20 lives, destroyed and damaged thousands of homes and are already estimated to cost the country up to $5 billion. Australia has always experienced damaging climate impacts such as droughts, bushfires and floods. But climate change is making the severity and frequency of…
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Renewable energy hits annual record, AGL fails to read market and falls rapidly behind
SYDNEY, March 11 2022 – New data revealing renewable energy hit an annual high in 2021 is yet another indication of AGL’s ideological obsession with coal in the face of mountains of evidence that the market is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.Renewable energy delivered 32.2 per cent of the electricity…
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Coping with Climate Grief: Advice from an Environmental Psychologist
It’s been a tough couple of weeks. With the confronting findings of the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the crisis in Ukraine, floods on one side of the country, and record-breaking heat on the other, it’s understandable if you’ve been feeling a little stressed or sad. When we…
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AGL’s rejection of takeover bid driven by ideological obsession with coal, locks in environmental and financial failure
SYDNEY, March 7 2022 – AGL’s, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, rejection of a bid by tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes and international asset manager Brookfield to buy the company and fast-track its coal closure confirms AGL’s ideological obsession with coal at the cost of the environment and its shareholders, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.The consortium’s sweetened offer…
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Victorian government’s renewable targets show AGL falls behind the winds of change
SYDNEY, March 4 2022 – The Victoria Government’s announcement of ambitious new offshore wind targets is yet further evidence that AGL’s flimsy excuses for the continued operation of dirty coal-burning power stations, including Loy Yang A, are falling apart, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.The announcement, which looks to develop 2GW of offshore wind by 2032, 4GW…
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Coal and gas companies should pay for the climate damage they fuel, like current east coast flood disaster: Greenpeace
SYDNEY, March 4 2022 – Coal and gas companies that are driving the climate crisis should bear the costs of extreme weather events like the floods currently devastating the east coast rather than communities on the frontlines, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt will today unveil a policy to double the current $1000…
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IPCC report: a last chance for climate action for a Pacific in peril
SYDNEY, Feb 28 2022 – The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has revealed the devastating impact to Pacific islands and communities if the world exceeds 1.5 degrees of warming, warning this threshold may soon be surpassed unless much stronger action is taken to reduce emissions.The IPCC report, the most…
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MEDIA BRIEFING: IPCC’s Working Group 2 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
This report makes clear that the climate crisis is now upon us, and will be the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. With the survival of millions of lives, ecosystems and species on the line, on a scale never before seen, there is no time to waste. We must throw every effort into tackling the…
