SYDNEY, March 27, 2020 - Greenpeace Australia Pacific condemns Energy Minister Angus Taylor's threat to hold states under siege from the Covid-19 crisis to ransom over climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
SYDNEY, 26 March 2020 - In response to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirming a mass bleach event on the Great Barrier Reef, Kate Smolski, Acting Program Director of Greenpeace Australia Pacific said:
SYDNEY, 25 March 2020 - In response to renowned Professor Terry Hughes reporting a mass bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef, Kate Smolski, Acting Program Director of Greenpeace Australia Pacific said:
Greenpeace recognises the measures outlined by NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent by 2030 as a step in the right direction, although far steeper cuts are needed in the wake of the recent bushfire crisis.
SYDNEY, March 5 2020 - Climate change is driving longer, hotter, more severe bushfire seasons in Australia, groundbreaking international research from World Weather Attribution published today shows.
SYDNEY, March 4 2020 - Telstra has become the first Australian telecommunications company to commit to 100% renewable energy by 2025 in an announcement made this afternoon.
SYDNEY, 28 February 2020 - In response to talking points circulated regarding the Federal Government’s Technology Roadmap released this morning, Dr Nikola Casule, Head of Research and Investigations at Greenpeace Australia Pacific said:
SYDNEY, 25 February 2020 - Norwegian oil company Equinor has today announced it will abandon plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight because it is “not commercially competitive”.
SYDNEY, Feb 24 2020 - A swathe of Australian actors, musicians, athletes and bushfire survivors are urging the prime minister to sever ties with the coal industry and embrace clean energy to ease the climate crisis and prevent a repeat of this summer’s unprecedented bushfires.
SYDNEY, Feb 21 2020 - The Morrison Government’s climate policy void has again been called out as Labor announced a policy of net-zero emissions by 2050. However, immediate and sharp emissions reduction are required to prevent a repeat of this summer’s unprecedented bushfires.