Research and Reports
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Report: Forging our Future
January 6, 2025
Forging Our Future sets out the ten requirements needed to build a green iron industry in WA quickly.
Report: From Commitment to Action - Achieving the 30×30 target through the Global Ocean Treaty
November 4, 2024
In 2022, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.…
Report: In Hotter Water - How the Global Ocean Treaty can boost climate action
November 4, 2024
In December 2019, Greenpeace International released 30×30 In Hot Water: The climate crisis and the urgent need for ocean protection. This makes the scientific case for creating a network of marine sanctuaries covering at least 30% of the world’s ocean, both to increase marine life’s resilience to climate change and to help mitigate its effect by protecting natural blue carbon stores. Since In Hot Water was released, new research has shown a possible weakening of the ocean’s ability to sequester and store carbon, while climate impacts on the ocean and coastal communities have worsened.
REPORT: “One Spill Will Kill": A Disaster in the Making
August 8, 2024
Greenpeace Australia Pacific believes Woodside cannot be trusted when it comes to our oceans, reefs and marine life.
Report: The ongoing animal welfare crisis from deforestation in Australia
July 30, 2024
Little has improved for wild animals since our last report on this crisis in 2017. Despite some reforms to the Vegetation Management Act in Queensland in 2018, laws and policies in both states have not greatly changed and still allow very large areas of bushland habitat for wildlife to be destroyed every year, likely harming, injuring, and killing millions of native animals every year.
Report: How the Global Ocean Treaty can help repair high seas mismanagement
June 6, 2024
This report explores how Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) have not met their mandate for sustainably managing the impacts of fishing activity on biodiversity in international waters. It then sets out how the recently won Global Ocean Treaty (BBNJ Agreement) can remedy this systematic mismanagement of biodiversity on the high seas.
Report: Deforestation Crisis on Their Watch
May 9, 2024
Australia is a global deforestation hotspot, driven primarily by the beef industry. About every two minutes, a large football field-sized area of forest and bushland is bulldozed, putting Australia alongside places like the Amazon, Congo and Borneo on the scale of destruction.
Report: People vs Plastic - Global support for a strong Plastics Treaty
April 4, 2024
Plastic pollution has flooded our planet. Pollution from plastics touches every corner of the globe reaching the deepest parts of our oceans, the highest mountain peaks and even contaminating our rainwater. Plastics harm multiple ecosystems at every stage of their life cycle, damaging people’s health, accelerating social injustice, destroying biodiversity and fuelling the climate crisis.
Report: Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis
November 29, 2023
In this report, Greenpeace International investigates the reality behind these soundbites. We expose the blight of Unilever’s single-use sachets on low-income communities and the glaring gap that exists between what the company says it will do, and what it actually does.
REPORT: 30×30 From Global Ocean Treaty to Protection at Sea
September 13, 2023
This report offers clear routes to action to get across the finishing line and help the oceans thrive again.
REPORT: Blasting our Ocean: Woodside’s Dangerous Seismic Plan
December 13, 2022
Woodside Energy aims to start risky seismic surveying for its Scarborough gas project. The process uses underwater airguns to blast powerful sound waves towards the seabed to assess fossil fuel…
REPORT: The Internal Combustion Engine Bubble
November 11, 2022
Current auto industry planning is not aligned with a 1.5°C compatible carbon budget and might result in millions of vehicles manufacturers can’t sell. This report aims to shed light on…
REPORT: Lost Time and Damaged Reputations. What Australia must do to go from blocker to leader on loss and damage
November 9, 2022
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Lost Time and Damaged Reputations.
SUBMISSION: On the Climate Change Bill 2022 and the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022
October 24, 2022
A decade of inaction on climate change has seen Australia and its Pacific Island neighbours suffer through catastrophic bushfire, floods and cyclones, causing environmental, social and economic devastation. The Climate…
REPORT: The Toyota Files - Stalling on Climate Action
September 19, 2022
The dirty secret behind Australia's most trusted carmaker. Toyota has been fighting against effective climate policy all over the world, including in Australia: blocking clean air regulation, flip-flopping on renewables
BRIEFING: Woodside Investor Briefing
August 30, 2022
Woodside promotes itself heavily to the public and its investors as a positive contributor to the climate transition. However, its actions indicate otherwise, and expose the company and its investors to multiple risks. Greenpeace has significant concerns about how Woodside is managing this risk. Woodside’s actions also expose the company and its investors to short-term legal, regulatory, ESG and reputational risk.
REPORT: Moby Sick: The Costs of Woodside’s Burrup Hub for Whales
July 6, 2022
Woodside Energy plans to build the ‘Burrup Hub’ within the known habitat of several threatened and migratory whale species in north west Australian waters.
REPORT: Deep-Sea Disaster, Why Woodside’s Burrup Hub project is too risky to proceed
June 21, 2022
A spill or accident at Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas project could release toxic gas and condensate of a similar consistency to crude oil into World Heritage listed marine parks, with…
BRIEFING: Woodside Investor Briefing 2022
May 18, 2022
Greenpeace is concerned about Woodside’s current production plans and has identified 12 key risks associated with them.
MEDIA BRIEFING: IPCC’s Working Group 2 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
February 28, 2022
This report makes clear that the climate crisis is now upon us, and will be the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. With the survival of millions of lives, ecosystems and species on the line, on a scale never before seen, there is no time to waste. We must throw every effort into tackling the climate crisis, and that means deep, rapid emissions cuts within the next few years.
REPORT: Hero to Zero, uncovering the truth of corporate Australia’s climate action claims
January 29, 2022
The world is experiencing an unprecedented climate crisis. To stabilise global temperatures, and prevent the situation getting even worse, emissions must reach net zero as soon as possible.
REPORT: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station
November 27, 2021
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…
REPORT: Australia - Pacific Bully And International Outcast
November 1, 2021
How Australia’s Climate Policies Isolate It from the Region and the World
Report: Global Warning: the threat to climate defenders in Australia
October 24, 2021
COP26 reinforced that the Australian Government is dragging its feet on climate action. Strong democratic systems and climate advocacy are now more important than ever. A new report by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, the Human Rights Law Centre and the Environmental Defenders Office documents the importance of climate activism in Australia, maps the systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country and examines the unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression.
REPORT: Coal-faced, Exposing AGL as Australia’s biggest climate polluter
May 5, 2021
SYDNEY, 5 May 2021 - AGL, Australia's biggest energy company, is holding back efforts by Australian businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
REPORT: Lethal Power, How coal is killing people in Australia
August 25, 2020
Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in…
SUBMISSION: To the Independent Planning Commission: Santos’ Narrabri gas project risks farms, water, climate, and community.
August 21, 2020
The destructive Narrabri fossil gas drilling proposal by Santos is one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia. Greenpeace contributed to the following submission to the Independent Planning…
REPORT: Recover & Prosper, Recharging the Australian Economy with Clean Energy
July 29, 2020
We're all feeling the effects of the COVID-19 health crisis and the economic hardship that it has brought about. Some of us are suffering more than others. The pandemic arrived at a time when Australia and our Pacific neighbours were already reeling from an unprecedented climate crisis.
REPORT: REenergising Australian business: the corporate race to renewable energy
December 4, 2019
A Greenpeace report analyses the sector-by-sector potential job and renewable energy benefits if 80 of Australia’s top companies moved to 100% renewable energy.
REPORT: The Dispersant Delusion - Equinor’s plan to poison the Great Australian Bight
November 17, 2019
Our report shows that regulators plan to allow Equinor to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight by deploying a banned chemical cocktail that doesn’t work.
Report: In Hot Water - The Climate Crisis and the Urgent Need for Ocean Protection
November 4, 2019
We are standing at a pivotal moment in history. A global movement unlike anything we’ve seen before is demanding governments take action to address the climate emergency. Young people, inspired…
REPORT: Invisible killer - Toxic sulfur dioxide hotspots revealed in Australia
August 19, 2019
A new Greenpeace report has revealed that Australia is ranked 12th on the list of the top human-caused sulphur dioxide hotspots as tracked by NASA satellites.
REPORT: Dirty Power - Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government
May 18, 2019
We’ve uncovered the web of connections between the world’s biggest coal giants, industry groups, lobbyists and powerful media organisations that serves to halt action on climate change and stall the…
REPORT: Offshore petroleum drilling and risk - A study of proposed deep-sea exploration drilling in the Great Australian Bight
April 18, 2019
Professor Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Petroleum Law and Director of Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, outlines the risks of Norwegian oil giant Equinor’s plans to drill for oil…
REPORT: Boom and Bust 2019 - Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline
March 28, 2019
For the third year in a row, the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2018. Clean, renewable energy solutions like wind and solar continue to…
POLL: Global warming, Liberal’s plan for emissions unpopular
March 2, 2019
Greenpeace has commissioned independent polling that confirms climate change number one issue on voters minds
POLL: Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in Victorian election
November 21, 2018
With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be…
REPORT: Crude Intentions
November 20, 2018
Greenpeace Australia Pacific worked with US oil spill consultant and marine biologist, Professor Richard Steiner, the leading ecologist involved in the cleanup and monitoring of the Exxon Valdez disaster in…
ANALYSIS: Electrifying Victoria - the impact of election policies on prices and the climate
November 16, 2018
With the Victorian state election on a knife-edge, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has commissioned modelling on the impact the energy policies of the Victorian Labor party, Liberal/National Coalition, and Greens would have on electricity prices and carbon emissions to 2025.
POLL: Australians want renewable energy
August 6, 2018
More than 70% of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
POLL: Victorians want renewables
August 6, 2018
Seventy-seven percent of Victorians want Australia to embrace a high renewable energy target, ramping up the pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews to vote against the Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG).
REPORT: More Expensive, More Pollution
July 19, 2018
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has released Reputex modelling that shows that the government’s National Energy Guarantee fails on emissions and power prices.
REPORT: License to Krill
March 13, 2018
Are krill oil companies stealing food from the mouths of Antarctic penguins and whales?
REPORT: Done and Dusted?
March 1, 2018
February 2018: As Australia transitions away from coal-fired power, questions are raised about the safe management and disposal coal ash, one of the most significant forms of waste in the…
REPORT: The double threat to the Great Barrier Reef
July 3, 2017
Climate change and the Australian Government
REPORT: Steeling the Future
June 6, 2017
This report highlights the role that Australia’s metallurgical coal exports have played in the increasing global use of blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace-based steel production, the most greenhouse gas emission intensive process to produce steel
REPORT: Clearcutting Free Speech
May 15, 2017
Canada’s Great Northern Boreal Forest, stewarded by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, includes some of the world’s last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest, is home to threatened species, and…
INVESTIGATION: Turn the Tide
December 16, 2016
Greenpeace's 12-month long investigation exposes the activities of Thailand's rogue overseas fishing fleets, the companies behind them and their supply chain connections to export markets including Australia, the US and Europe.