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Australia doesn’t make the cut of the Climate Ambition B-league
SYDNEY, Sunday 13 December 2020 – Global climate ambition is not enough and the world is still not on track to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets, delegates at this weekend’s Climate Ambition Summit have been warned – and Australia wasn’t even invited. “Even the B-league doesn’t want Australia. Australia’s natural advantages in wind and solar…
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Climate Summit snub shows the world’s not fooled by Morrison’s posturing
SYDNEY, Tuesday 8 December 2020 – In response to the news that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has yet to be granted a speaking slot at the 12 December Global Climate Ambition Summit that he has “vowed to attend”, Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter said: “Scott Morrison has come up with no credible commitments on…
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Morrison finally drops dodgy climate accounting
MELBOURNE, Saturday 5 December 2020 – In response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing that Australia will drop the plan to use dodgy Kyoto credits to meet its Paris climate target, Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Nelli Stevenson said:“The Morrison government has long been shamed on the global stage for its use of dodgy accounting to…
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Greenpeace backs Uluru Statement
SYDNEY, December 3 2020 – Greenpeace has today committed to walk with First Nations people towards a better future as the first environmental organisation to publicly formally endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart.Greenpeace has expressed wholehearted support for all reforms outlined in the Uluru Statement, which was created by more than 250 Indigenous delegates…
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Australia must commit to net-zero by 2040 or risk catastrophic damage to the Pacific: Greenpeace report
SYDNEY, Dec 3 2020 – Australia’s inadequate climate policies could see the world heat by almost four degrees by 2100 but the worst can be avoided for parts of the Pacific if Australia and other major emitters adopt a net-zero emissions by 2040 target, according to a new report by Greenpeace.Under current policies, the world…
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Replacing Liddell with Renewables Cheaper and Less Polluting than Gas
Greenpeace launches the report: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station Report 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 new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex. ||| New modelling undertaken…
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Bushfire Royal Commission missed opportunity to make polluters pay for climate damage like the 2019-20 bushfires
The New South Wales ‘Mega’ fire, which measures 1.5 million acres, burns on the outskirts of the small town of Tumbarumba in the Snowy Mountains, NSW. Since blazes broke out in September, Australia has seen unprecedented bushfires destroying nearly 11 million hectares with at least 29 people loosing their lives. It is estimated that more…
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Make polluters pay: Bushfire Royal Commission should have called for disaster levy on fossil fuel exports
SYDNEY, Oct 30 2020 – Greenpeace is calling for the country’s biggest polluters to pay for climate disasters like the 2019-20 bushfires, through a levy.A short time ago the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements published its final report, which failed to recommend that the fossil fuel industry whose operations fuel climate change should…