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Pacific Islands Forum ends with lacklustre progress on key climate issues
As the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Tonga comes to a close, the following comments can be attributed to Shiva Gounden.
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‘Big win for nature’: Woolies turns its back on beef linked to forest destruction
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has congratulated Woolworths for today’s announcement that it will source only deforestation-free products in its supermarkets, heralded as a significant step towards addressing biodiversity decline.
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‘The risks are too great’: Tongan community rallies against deep sea mining as Pacific Forum Leaders meet
The 53rd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) continues today in Tonga, local groups have staged a peaceful demonstration against deep sea mining in its capital Nuku’alofa, as global momentum opposing the destructive industry grows.
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Woodside’s ‘Carbon Dumping’ ploy foiled
Freedom of Information (FOI) documents sourced by Greenpeace Australia Pacific reveal that the gas giant’s attempts to have carbon capture and storage assessed…
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Greenpeace calls for climate action, not empty rhetoric, as Pacific Leaders’ Forum kicks off in Tonga
As the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum kicks off today in Tonga, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is calling on the Albanese government to genuinely respond to the needs of Pacific island nations by increasing its ambition on climate finance and fossil fuels.
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Exmouth forms peaceful flotilla to protect Scott Reef from Woodside
More than 130 West Australians have joined a peaceful flotilla in Exmouth Gulf, calling on the Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to protect Scott Reef from Woodside’s controversial Browse project.
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Nature organisations condemn Australia’s oil and gas regulator over failure to ensure ocean clean up
Six leading nature and ocean conservation organisations from across Australia have today released a scathing Statement calling out the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) over its failure to ensure offshore oil and gas companies clean up disused oil and gas infrastructure from the ocean.
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Greenpeace AP brings 440,000 signatures against Woodside’s Burrup Hub to Parliament
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has just delivered an informal petition, signed by a staggering 440,000 people opposed to fossil fuel giant Woodside’s Burrup Hub project, to Parliament.
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New report into Woodside’s troubling history of environmental neglect, risk of an oil spill: Greenpeace urges Premier to “follow the facts”
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today released a report outlining the potentially catastrophic impacts of Woodside’s Browse project on West Australia’s pristine oceans.
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“No, it certainly shouldn’t”: Greenpeace welcomes WA Premier Cook’s commitment to follow the evidence on Woodside’s risky Browse
Greenpeace Australia Pacific today welcomed a commitment from WA Premier Roger Cook indicating he would respect potential findings from the state’s EPA ruling out Woodside’s Browse project, if the EPA deems it poses an unacceptable risk of an oil spill or harm to whales and turtles.