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Labor and the Greens delivered best ever policy platforms for the election. The Coalition took a different approach.
In response to the urgent problem of climate change and Australia’s worsening environmental indicators, the Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party delivered best ever policy platforms for the 2016 Federal Election. In response to the urgent problem of climate change and Australia’s worsening environmental indicators, the Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party delivered best ever policy platforms for the 2016 Federal…
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Is the Prime Minister’s transition fast enough to save the Great Barrier Reef?
At the Leaders debate at the National Press Club in Canberra on May 29 the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the public that he had a practical plan for action on climate change and it was working. The Prime Minister didn’t mention the Reef once. In my last post I discussed the stakes for…
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Orangutans take over Sydney
Early Monday morning a bunch of awesome people and orangutans decided to pay PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson a little visit to their Australian headquarters in Sydney. © James Alcock / Greenpeace The plan: to deliver the 30,000+ Australian signatures calling on each of these brands to come through on their “no deforestation”…
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Greenpeace demands rainforest protection at the Australian headquarters of Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson and PepsiCo
Press release – 18 April, 2016Sydney, 18 April 2016 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists this morning are visiting the Australian headquarters of global companies, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson to demand urgent action to break the link between palm oil and deforestation in Indonesia.Holding a banner saying “Forests not Fires: End Deforestation!” the activists…
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U.S. Green Building Council Ambushes Environmental Groups
This week, without any input from environmental groups, sustainable design leaders, or external stakeholders outside of the timber industry, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that it has launched…
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8 ways people are fighting for forests this International Day of Forests
Love trees? Then celebrate – 21 March is the International Day of Forests! |A bonobo in a bonobo rehabilitation center near Kinshasa. Bonobos were the last of the great apes to be discovered and live exclusively in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are considered to be man’s closest relative and organise themselves in…
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Seven Reasons why Environmentalists (should and do) care about Refugees
Across the world, around sixty million human beings are currently displaced from their homes. It is a number so enormous it is hard to visualise, but it is as if roughly the entire population of the UK was violently tipped out on to the roads and oceans of the world. The loss of humanity from…
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Devastating Coral Reef Bleaching Event
After Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Buzz Aldrin said: ”When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.” I haven’t been to the moon, but there are a bunch of other things I’ve seen for the first time that made me cry: the birth of my children, Barack Obama’s…
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Cyclone Winston devastates Fiji
Blog post from Cayla Tikaram – Greenpeace Australia Pacific Intern On Saturday night, the cyclone of all cyclones rocked our tiny island nation. As we clung together in cupboards, under tables and holding the people we loved close, I’m sure a collective prayer or two went up! Nothing prepares you for the wrath of Mother…