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Rudd Going From Bad to Worse on Climate
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse … Yesterday the government performed a policy back flip on its emissions trading scheme. Unfortunately the acrobatic feat landed us even further in the mire. Instead of showing some much needed leadership, Prime Minister Rudd delayed and watered down his already dismal plans. It couldn’t have…
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Will Iceland End Commercial Whaling?
The big news in Iceland this week has been the election of a new Government which has previously said it will look at ending commercial whaling. The world’s first openly gay leader, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir will lead a coalition government formed from Social Democratic Alliance and the Left Green Movement. Just before he was…
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Vote for the Origami Whales
We’ve had awesome news in the office! Our Origami Whales interactive website is finalist in the 2009 Webby Awards – the equivalent of the Oscars for the web! The petition site was launched almost a year ago, asking the Japanese Prime Minister to cease whaling in the Southern Ocean. Users can pimp their own origami…
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Antarctic Ice Shelf On The Rocks
As if you needed more evidence that the climate’s on thin ice. In Antarctica, an ice bridge that was holding the vast Wilkins Ice Shelf to the continent has collapsed. It’s likely Wilkins will soon follow. The ice bridge has been retreating since the late 1990s. In 1950, it was almost 100km wide but, just…
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A Mother Of A Victory For This Rainforest
We’ve been celebrating an enormous win over the past few days. More than one-third of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest — the largest intact area of temperate rainforest in the world — is officially and legally off-limits to logging. It’s an area half the size of Switzerland. One person who’s especially jubillant at the news is…
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The G3: Grassroots, global and growing
With the G20 meeting getting under way in London, the many faces of protest have been revealed. Over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen a range of tactics and messages from police and protesters. A call for justice and equality, for peace and safety has been issued to the rulers locked in their meetings. I’ve…
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Three great news stories for whales
Not one, not two, but THREE good news stories on the whales front today!!! 1. An end to whaling in Iceland? If elected at next month’s elections, Iceland’s Socialist/Green Coalition, who are leading in the polls ahead of a vote on 25 April, have said that they will end whaling in early 2010! The outgoing…
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Inspirational activist cycles to Copenhagen
This is a first-hand report from Kim Nguyen, who is cycling to Copenhagen this year to raise awareness about climate change in the lead-up to the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the Danish capital in December. He is currently in China, having already cycled from Brisbane. I’ve cycled almost 7000 km and it’s almost 8…
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Labor’s Dirty Coal Dependency
Today the big bad news, again, is the failure of the Australian Government to do something decisive on climate change. The Melbourne Age reports that ‘State emission cuts ‘futile’ and would aid polluters’. Our CEO, Steve Shallhorn writes in the Sydney Morning Herald, where he asks ‘Why is the Federal Government failing to live up…
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If Poland can do it, why can't we?
The news yesterday that the proposed coal mine at Konin, Poland has been suspended is a huge relief to all of us at Greenpeace. The mine became the focal point of our international coal campaign as Poland hosted the United Nations Climate Change meeting last December. We took our Climate Rescue Station to the site,…
