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Fossil Fuel Phase Out
The science is clear: we must transition away from fossil fuels at emergency speed and scale while also supporting communities most affected by climate change.
Ways to get involved
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Stop New Coal, Oil and Gas Projects
Sign the petition to demand the Australian Government stop new coal, oil and gas projects now.
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Big Gas is destroying our planet
Big Gas is holding Australia’s economy hostage for their own profit — and they’re destroying the nature and oceans we love in the process. Tell Prime Minister Albanese to stand up to Big Gas.
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Call on Telstra to disconnect from Big Gas!
Communities across Australia are already facing the real impacts of climate change: extreme bushfires, record-breaking floods, and damaging storms, driven by the burning of fossil fuels like gas. They deserve to know when a company that claims to back climate action is actually doing the opposite.
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Email the CEOs of key companies in the BCA
Discover which major brands are doing the dirty work of Big Gas, and who is walking the talk on climate.
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Australia’s best‑kept secret. Woodside’s next target!
You can help save Scott Reef from destructive gas drilling
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Make Polluters Pay Pact
It’s time to make polluters pay. If corporations paid fair taxes on their profits and pollution we could support communities impacted by climate change while also transitioning away from fossil fuels.
The problem
While investment in renewable energy may be on the rise, fossil fuel consumption is also continuing to grow, pushing global climate pollution to new highs and threatening communities across the Pacific, Australia and the world.
Every tonne of coal and gas we burn is pushing us closer to 1.5°C of warming and locking in more destruction. We need to turn the tide. It’s time for a fair, fast phase out of fossil fuels.
Australia: a fossil fuel giant
The vast majority of Australia’s fossil fuel production is for export. The emissions from our exported coal and gas, once burned, are more than three times Australia’s total domestic emissions.
Far from winding back our fossil fuel exports, Australia has been expanding fossil fuel production faster than any other major producer. We have been labelled a ‘planet wrecker’.
COP31: Our opportunity to lead
The vast majority of Australia’s fossil fuel production is for export. Australia is gunning to host next year’s round of international climate negotiations (COP31) in Adelaide, in partnership with the Pacific. Coming at the middle of the make-or-break decade for climate action, COP31 must mark an inflection point for fossil fuels.
Regardless of where COP31 is held, Australia’s obligation to reduce its emissions remains unchanged. As the third-largest fossil fuel exporter in the world, Australia has a special responsibility to t set a timeline for the managed wind-down of all its fossil fuel production.
The Gas Lobby is Blocking Climate Action
Why hasn’t the Federal Government already made a plan to phase out of fossil fuels? Because of pressure from the fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists. In Australia , the gas lobby is a key blocker of climate action.
Just like Big Tobacco, Big Gas is a powerful network of companies, lobbyists and industry groups who are working hard to protect their profits and keep Australia and the world hooked on their dirty product.
To undermine their power, we’re standing up to powerful lobby groups, like the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and Australian Energy Producers (AEP), who are promoting more gas expansion and blocking climate action.
We need corporations and the government alike to stand up to Big Gas and support the transition away from fossil fuels so we can uphold our international climate commitments.
What does Greenpeace do?
At Greenpeace Australia Pacific we tackle the biggest issues that are standing in the way of a green and peaceful future. We use peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose the biggest environmental threats in our region and around the globe. We promote solutions and advocate for climate justice.
Help end the fossil fuel era
Right now, Greenpeace is working to take on the biggest polluters and stop new coal, oil and gas projects in Australia. We’re holding corporations and governments to account, taking direct action and investigating and exposing them.
We still have time. What happens next is in our hands
Help end the age of fossil fuels
Right now, Greenpeace is working to take on the biggest polluters and stop new coal, oil and gas projects in Australia. We’re holding corporations and governments to account, taking direct action and investigating and exposing them.
We still have time. What happens next is in our hands.
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“A complete shemozzle”: WA Government’s so-called ‘State Development Bill’ risks fast-tracking pollution
PERTH, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the WA State Government’s State Development Bill’ as a ‘complete shemozzle’, and urged Parliament to fix critical flaws in…
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Greenpeace activists arrested by police helicopter after seven-hour protest on coal ship
NEWCASTLE, Sunday 30 November 2025 — Two Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have been arrested by specialist police on a coal ship outside the Port of Newcastle, following a more than…
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Greenpeace activists block coal ship from entering world’s largest coal port at Rising Tide blockade
NEWCASTLE, Sunday 30 November 2025 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have scaled and blocked a coal ship, bound for the Port of Newcastle today, during the Rising Tide People’s Blockade,…
Sources
- Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Source: United Nations Climate Action
- Source: OCI Planet Wreckers Report 2023
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The 2023 Climate Ambition Gap
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, taking stock of 2035 climate action plans on the road to achieving the 1.5°C limit.
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Report: Power Shift – WA’s Electrified Future
Written in collaboration with Springmount Advisory, this report clearly demonstrates that rapid emissions reduction is not only possible in WA but is in the economic interests of the West Australian…
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REPORT: WA Can’t Wait
Australia can’t wait. WA must lead the way by building a large-scale decommissioning hub for our environment, for jobs, and for a green energy future.
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REPORT: Toxic Threat. The danger of nuclear waste in Australia
In this report, Greenpeace Australia Pacific warns that not only has the Coalition grossly understated the quantity of nuclear waste that would be generated in Australia, it has also not addressed the myriad risks of transporting and processing this waste.
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REPORT: Forging our Future
Forging Our Future sets out the ten requirements needed to build a green iron industry in WA quickly.
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REPORT: Risky Business. Woodside’s Burrup Hub is a disaster in the making.
Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas project is the nation’s biggest fossil fuel threat. If approved, it will jeopardise 54 vulnerable species, spew out 6.1 billion tonnes of CO2 and generate 13 times Australia’s annual emissions. Our Environment Minister has the power to stop this dangerous project from going ahead and define Labor’s legacy on nature.
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REPORT: “One Spill Will Kill”: A Disaster in the Making
Greenpeace Australia Pacific believes Woodside cannot be trusted when it comes to our oceans, reefs and marine life.
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REPORT: Blasting our Ocean: Woodside’s Dangerous Seismic Plan
Woodside Energy aims to start risky seismic surveying for its Scarborough gas project. The process uses underwater airguns to blast powerful sound waves towards the seabed to assess fossil fuel…
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REPORT: The Internal Combustion Engine Bubble
Current auto industry planning is not aligned with a 1.5°C compatible carbon budget and might result in millions of vehicles manufacturers can’t sell. This report aims to shed light on…
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SUBMISSION: On the Climate Change Bill 2022 and the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022
A decade of inaction on climate change has seen Australia and its Pacific Island neighbours suffer through catastrophic bushfire, floods and cyclones, causing environmental, social and economic devastation. The Climate…
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REPORT: The Toyota Files – Stalling on Climate Action
The dirty secret behind Australia’s most trusted carmaker. Toyota has been fighting against effective climate policy all over the world, including in Australia: blocking clean air regulation, flip-flopping on renewables
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BRIEFING: Woodside Investor Briefing
Woodside promotes itself heavily to the public and its investors as a positive contributor to the climate transition. However, its actions indicate otherwise, and expose the company and its investors to multiple risks. Greenpeace has significant concerns about how Woodside is managing this risk. Woodside’s actions also expose the company and its investors to short-term…
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REPORT: Deep-Sea Disaster, Why Woodside’s Burrup Hub project is too risky to proceed
A spill or accident at Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas project could release toxic gas and condensate of a similar consistency to crude oil into World Heritage listed marine parks, with…
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BRIEFING: Woodside Investor Briefing 2022
Greenpeace is concerned about Woodside’s current production plans and has identified 12 key risks associated with them.
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REPORT: Hero to Zero, uncovering the truth of corporate Australia’s climate action claims
The world is experiencing an unprecedented climate crisis. To stabilise global temperatures, and prevent the situation getting even worse, emissions must reach net zero as soon as possible.
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REPORT: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station
The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a…
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REPORT: Coal-faced, Exposing AGL as Australia’s biggest climate polluter
SYDNEY, 5 May 2021 – AGL, Australia’s biggest energy company, is holding back efforts by Australian businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
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REPORT: Lethal Power, How coal is killing people in Australia
Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in…
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SUBMISSION: To the Independent Planning Commission: Santos’ Narrabri gas project risks farms, water, climate, and community.
The destructive Narrabri fossil gas drilling proposal by Santos is one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia. Greenpeace contributed to the following submission to the Independent Planning…
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REPORT: Recover & Prosper, Recharging the Australian Economy with Clean Energy
We’re all feeling the effects of the COVID-19 health crisis and the economic hardship that it has brought about. Some of us are suffering more than others. The pandemic arrived at a time when Australia and our Pacific neighbours were already reeling from an unprecedented climate crisis.
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REPORT: REenergising Australian business: the corporate race to renewable energy
A Greenpeace report analyses the sector-by-sector potential job and renewable energy benefits if 80 of Australia’s top companies moved to 100% renewable energy.
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REPORT: The Dispersant Delusion – Equinor’s plan to poison the Great Australian Bight
Our report shows that regulators plan to allow Equinor to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight by deploying a banned chemical cocktail that doesn’t work.
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REPORT: Invisible killer – Toxic sulfur dioxide hotspots revealed in Australia
A new Greenpeace report has revealed that Australia is ranked 12th on the list of the top human-caused sulphur dioxide hotspots as tracked by NASA satellites.
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REPORT: Dirty Power – Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government
We’ve uncovered the web of connections between the world’s biggest coal giants, industry groups, lobbyists and powerful media organisations that serves to halt action on climate change and stall the…
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REPORT: Offshore petroleum drilling and risk – A study of proposed deep-sea exploration drilling in the Great Australian Bight
Professor Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Petroleum Law and Director of Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, outlines the risks of Norwegian oil giant Equinor’s plans to drill for oil…
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REPORT: Boom and Bust 2019 – Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline
For the third year in a row, the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2018. Clean, renewable energy solutions like wind and solar continue to…
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POLL: Global warming, Liberal’s plan for emissions unpopular
Greenpeace has commissioned independent polling that confirms climate change number one issue on voters minds
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POLL: Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in Victorian election
With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be…
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REPORT: Crude Intentions
Greenpeace Australia Pacific worked with US oil spill consultant and marine biologist, Professor Richard Steiner, the leading ecologist involved in the cleanup and monitoring of the Exxon Valdez disaster in…
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ANALYSIS: Electrifying Victoria – the impact of election policies on prices and the climate
With the Victorian state election on a knife-edge, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has commissioned modelling on the impact the energy policies of the Victorian Labor party, Liberal/National Coalition, and Greens would have on electricity prices and carbon emissions to 2025.
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POLL: Australians want renewable energy
More than 70% of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
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POLL: Victorians want renewables
Seventy-seven percent of Victorians want Australia to embrace a high renewable energy target, ramping up the pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews to vote against the Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG).
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REPORT: More Expensive, More Pollution
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has released Reputex modelling that shows that the government’s National Energy Guarantee fails on emissions and power prices.
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REPORT: Done and Dusted?
February 2018: As Australia transitions away from coal-fired power, questions are raised about the safe management and disposal coal ash, one of the most significant forms of waste in the…
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REPORT: The double threat to the Great Barrier Reef
Climate change and the Australian Government
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REPORT: Steeling the Future
This report highlights the role that Australia’s metallurgical coal exports have played in the increasing global use of blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace-based steel production, the most greenhouse gas emission intensive process to produce steel
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REPORT: Reality Check on Coal – Less value, more harm
The Australian coal industry’s contribution to the economy is rapidly shrinking – even as its contribution towards global warming is spiralling out of control.
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REPORT: Exporting climate change, killing the Reef
Australia, the world’s largest coal exporter, will export a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in its coal this year, erasing the few benefits of meeting its weak Paris target and worsening its contribution to global climate change, Greenpeace Australia Pacific analysis shows.
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REPORT: Whitehaven Coal – No Future
How a lack of social license is derailing Australia’s most controversial coal company
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REPORT: The Dirty Three
Origin Energy, EnergyAustralia and AGL’s attack on Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
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