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Coalition’s nuclear site plans a climate poison pill
The debate around nuclear is a dangerous distraction from what we need to deliver climate action in Australia today: move rapidly to 100% renewable energy.
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Coalition’s nuclear site plans a climate poison pill: Greenpeace
SYDNEY, 19 June 2024 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has dismissed the federal opposition’s nuclear plans as a distraction from the urgent need to transition Australia to clean and affordable renewable…
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Our new campaigning vessel
With the help of an incredibly generous donor, we’ve purchased a 68ft blue water sailing boat. It’s no leisure cruiser. It’s built for speed, for the open water, to take on those who threaten the future of our blue planet.
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Greenpeace calls on car companies that support strong NVES to leave the FCAI, for the body to be renamed
With a second car company in as many days expected to resign membership of the petrol-pushing Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today called on the remaining car companies that support an effective emissions standard to resign from the FCAI, and for the FCAI be renamed the ‘Full-Throttle Carbon Addicts Institute…
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Violette Snow
“I decided to get involved with Greenpeace after I started meeting people who were working there and they talked about how much they loved it and the brilliant campaigns they were working on – like REenergise which got over 20 of Australia’s biggest companies to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2025.”
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John Collingridge
"During the gift that is this life, I have been awed at the majesty and beauty of landscapes, trees, oceans and sea shores; marvelled at the variety and wonder of all the companion creatures who I have had the privilege to observe; and, over time, become aware, that our fellow creatures, especially mammals, share very…
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Caroline McDaid
“I have vivid memories of completing a school project at age 10 on environmental threats and using Greenpeace as a source of information and inspiration. Some of these battles have been won which gives me great courage about the fight to address climate change that we have on our hands right now.”
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Denise Aldous
“My decision to include Greenpeace in my will is a very personal one. My late mother was a pretty strident opponent of so-called “scientific whaling” and my recently passed brother donated regularly to Greenpeace to support their work in protecting the Great Barrier Reef. It is in their names that I took over my brother’s…
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Harry Johnson
“From my early twenties I saw Greenpeace to be a unique environmental organisation as Greenpeace only accepts donations from individuals. Greenpeace accepts no donations from powerful business interests or from governments. Few people, other than Greenpeace supporters, appear to realise how this unique feature differentiates Greenpeace from other worthy environmental groups.”