All articles by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
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Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave
The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks. On Saturday February 11, as New South Wales suffered through the heatwave’s peak, temperatures soared to 47 °C in Richmond, 50km northwest of Sydney, while 87 fires raged across the state amid catastrophic…
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See you in court, Arctic oil!
It’s time we hold governments accountable for their climate promises; we must protect the pristine Arctic – it’s critical for the preservation of our planet for future generations. That’s why we’re taking Arctic oil to court. Our legal case against the Norwegian government, which granted new oil drilling licenses in the Arctic ocean, finally has…
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Dirty Energy’s Tax Rort
How do you know when a tax regime isn’t working? When industry demands that it be kept as is! Major oil and gas producers have called on the government to resist demands to tighten up Australia’s primary tax on oil and gas, the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Tax Justice…
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Pacific Islanders call out Australian Climate Change Ambassador’s breathtaking hypocrisy
Matisse Walkden-Brown is Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Fiji-based Head of Pacific Net. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is a member of the Pacific Island Climate Action Network. As a Pacific climate activist one of the hardest things to swallow is that our fate lies in the hands of other people. Other governments. Big governments with big investments. Big…
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It’s Time for Solidarity, Love and Hope
This Friday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, after a year when, around the world, the politics of hate, fear and division too often blossomed. The weekend of Trump’s inauguration, Greenpeace will join with allies and supporters to participate in movements across the globe sending a loud,…
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The good, the Baird, and the ugly
Mike Baird is gone – and on his last day, it’s worth reflecting on the last two years: the good, the bad and the ugly. The good After many years of pressure from thousands of Greenpeace supporters and our friends at the Boomerang Alliance, the New South Wales government finally announced a container deposit scheme,…
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Greenpeace: Turnbull’s preposterous coal dogma smashed by record heat
Press release – 18 January, 2017Sydney, 19 January 2016: Responding to the finding that 2016 was the hottest on record, Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner, Nikola Casule, said:“Earlier this week, Prime Minister Turnbull claimed that his support for coal was ‘pragmatic and practical’. He said opposition to the fossil fuels that drive climate change was…
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Revealed: HSBC is funding forest destruction
Today we’ve let the cat out of the bag that HSBC – one of the biggest banks in the world – is funding destructive palm oil companies. Now its customers are waking up to the news that the bank card in their pocket is linked to the destruction of already-endangered forests. This secretly filmed footage…
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Greenpeace ‘Horrified at random killing of marine life’ and call for non-lethal alternatives to shark nets to protect swimmers
Press release – 16 January, 2017Sydney, 17 January 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific says new figures on marine life killed by nets through the NSW shark meshing programme are horrifying and show the need for non-lethal options, which could prove more effective at protecting swimmers.“There is no conclusive evidence that nets are effective at preventing human-shark…