SYDNEY, May 8, 2019 - As Australians prepare to cast their votes, a new report by Greenpeace lifts the lid on a secretive cabal that has embedded itself in the highest levels of the Morrison government, benefitting the coal industry at the expense of communities, families, and the environment. You won’t find it on your ballot paper, but its power looms over Parliament.
SYDNEY, May 6, 2019 - The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and lead to sweeping change in agriculture and food production and consumption.
SYDNEY, May 4, 2019 - While Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten lock horns over their policies, both are failing to address the climate emergency with credible plans.
SYDNEY, May 2, 2019 - Greenpeace is calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to follow the UK’s lead and declare a climate and environment emergency.
SYDNEY, May 2 2019 - Today’s “independent” modelling from fossil fuel industry economist Brian Fisher is a misleading distraction from the important issues, says leading environmental organisation Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
SYDNEY, April 24, 2019 - On the same day that Equinor’s poor safety record was exposed, the Norwegian oil giant has chosen to submit a plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight - a proposal that would be illegal in Norway. [1]
“The PSA regards this as one of the most serious well control incidents on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) since Statoil’s Snorre A incident in 2004.” - PSA determination, 21 February 2017.
SYDNEY, APRIL 18, 2019 - Norwegian oil company Equinor’s proposal to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight should not go ahead in its current form, a leading international petroleum law expert has warned today.
SYDNEY, April 11, 2019 - With Australia reeling from heatwaves, drought, mass fish kills, catastrophic floods and fires, the 2019 federal election will be a referendum on years of failure to act on climate change.
London, UK, 4 April 2019 – As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans by 2030, a target that scientists say is crucial in order to safeguard wildlife and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change.