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A new opportunity to tackle climate change
Press release – 14 September, 2015Sydney, September 15 2015 – Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment as Australia’s prime minister is a welcome opportunity to undo the retrograde climate change and environmental policies of the past few years, Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s CEO, David Ritter, said today.“Mr. Turnbull has repeatedly endorsed climate change science and has a deep understanding…
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Greenpeace calls for investigation into illegal fishing by Taiwanese ship
Press release – 10 September, 2015Port Moresby, September 11 2015 – Greenpeace is urging Pacific nations to investigate and capture the Taiwanese-flagged ship that illegally caught tuna and 75 kilograms of shark fins, which the state’s Taiwan Fisheries Agency (TFA) had failed to ensure had permission to fish.“We are still tracking the Shuen De Ching…
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Australia inciting Pacific instability with climate change stance
Press release – 10 September, 2015Sydney, September 11 2015 – Australia and New Zealand are abandoning their neighbours and contributing to a growing humanitarian crisis through their blocking and inaction on climate change, Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s CEO, David Ritter, said today."Australia and New Zealand have shown themselves to be the worst of neighbours with their…
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Greenpeace ship busts illegal tuna fishing operation in Pacific high seas, underlining urgent need for enforcement
Press release – 9 September, 2015Port Moresby, September 10, 2015 – As Pacific Islands Forum leaders consider a 10-year road map for a sustainable fisheries industry, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior has uncovered a pirate fishing operation near Papua New Guinea’s waters with 75 kilograms of illegally caught shark fins — underlining the scale of…
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IPA in the running for prize for role in destroying Australia’s coal price
Press release – 7 September, 2015Sydney, Sept 4 2015 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific today ridiculed the notion that the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is in the running to win an international prize for its role in repealing the carbon tax, and called for it to donate the prize money to a charity fighting climate…
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Australia’s isolationist climate change stance failing Pacific neighbours
Press release – 7 September, 2015Port Moresby, 8 September 2015: The Abbott government is failing its Pacific neighbours and embarrassing itself internationally over its fossil fuel-driven, isolationist stance on climate change, the CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, David Ritter, said today.Pacific leaders yesterday published the Suva Declaration containing a call for a global moratorium on…
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Australians not fooled by abysmal emissions target
Press release – 10 August, 2015The Abbott government’s abysmal post-2020 greenhouse emissions reduction target is a blow to ordinary Australians, and shows how national policy has become tainted by fossil fuel industry interests, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today."It is too little too late from the Abbott Government," said Nikola Casule, climate and energy campaigner at…
