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Fighting Against Deforestation and Illegal Logging
Deforestation is a threat we need to tackle urgently. We have lost the majority of the world's forests and it's vital to save what's left.
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‘The Pacific Can’t Survive If Richest Corporations And Governments Continue To Put Profits Over People And Planet’
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has warned that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if the world’s biggest polluters continue to put profit over people and planet, in Suva overnight. Prime Minister Loughman made the remarks at the launch event for a powerful coalition of civil society groups who have come together to…
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Greenpeace statement on new NSW anti-protest laws
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned knee-jerk new anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW State Government as anti-democratic, and indicative of a worrying trend of suppression of protest activity in Australia.The new laws, rushed through by the NSW Government overnight, will see protestors who disrupt traffic on any bridge or tunnel in the Greater Sydney area…
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Escalating suppression of climate defenders exposed in new investigation
Major new research has identified a clear and alarming trend that sees climate defenders increasingly being targeted and suppressed by Australian governments
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The world calls time on coal at COP26
The international community has endorsed an accelerated coal phase down and an end to fossil fuel subsidies in an historic COP26 final decision text, sending a clear message to Scott Morrison that his failed climate policy will no longer be tolerated, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific.Overnight, negotiators in Glasgow agreed to work for an accelerated phaseout…
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Climate change is a man-made problem that disproportionately impacts women. It needs feminist solutions
The solutions to climate change will come from the bottom-up – from the community-owned solutions of the margins and from the Global South. Climate change is not gender-neutral. As Mary Robinson has said “Climate change is a man made crisis that needs a feminist solution”. On gender day at COP26 it’s important to remember that…
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‘Stop failing us!’: Women form up on Vanuatu volcano to demand Pacific Climate Justice
With tears, smiles and laughter etched on their faces we saw women and girls come together for an action on the side of a volcano in Vanuatu to send a loud message to world leaders at COP26: Stop failing us! The Pacific is a vast ocean that covers a third of our planet. The distance…
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Diplomatic bully: Australia’s climate obstruction in the Pacific revealed
Australia uses diplomatic strong-arm tactics to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and buy silence on climate change, a new investigation from Greenpeace Australia Pacific has revealed.Greenpeace’s new report, Australia: Pacific Bully and International Outcast reveals: The Australian government uses bullying tactics in regional negotiations on climate change, according to former Pacific Island leaders…
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At COP and in the Pacific, no one wants to be friends with a bully
With the release of Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s new report Pacific Bully and International Outcast, there’s now definitive proof Australia exploits and bullies Pacific Island nations’ desperate need for action in the face of climate change, writes Shiva Gounden from COP2 in Glasgow. |During the opening of the COP26, 200 women gathered at Mt Yasur, an…
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We’re going to COP26 in Glasgow to make leaders step up and tackle the climate crisis
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Board Member and human rights lawyer Kavita Naidu leads our Pacific delegation that will fight for climate justice at COP26. In less than a week, world leaders and representatives of almost 200 countries will meet in Glasgow, Scotland to come to an agreement on how to rein in a climate crisis that…