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‘If you don’t transition from coal, are you really part of the Pacific?’ Ex-Tuvalu PM Sopoaga asks at COP25
MADRID, Dec 7, 2019 – Former Tuvalu Prime Minister and climate champion Enele Sopoaga questioned whether countries that accept the reality of climate change but refuse to transition away from fossil fuels are really part of the Pacific.Mr Sopoaga made the remarks at an intergenerational dialogue event at the UN’s annual climate change conference, COP25…
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Bushfires and extreme weather events
Climate change is fuelling extreme weather events like horror bushfires, heatwaves and droughts, but our politicians keep shovelling coal into the furnace. Climate change is an emergency. It's time our leaders act like it.
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Bushfires and extreme weather events. What’s that about?
Climate change is fuelling extreme weather events like horror bushfires, heatwaves and droughts, but our politicians keep shovelling coal into the furnace. Climate change is an emergency. It’s time our…
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Fiji among 10 nations most impacted by climate crisis in 2018 but all of Pacific faces devastation unless the world acts now
MADRID, Dec 5, 2019 – Climate change caused eight deaths and wiped $172 million from Fiji’s economy in 2018, according to a report by climate advocacy group Germanwatch.“It’s beyond doubt that climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events around the world but the impacts are particularly acute in the Pacific,” Nilesh Prakash, Head of Climate…
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REPORT: REenergising Australian business: the corporate race to renewable energy
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.
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Over 10,000 years worth of jobs could be created by corporate climate action
SYDNEY, December 5, 2019 – Over 10,000 construction job-years and over 5,000 ongoing jobs would be created if 80 of the biggest and best-known brands in Australia moved to 100% renewable energy, according to the latest report released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.In conjunction with the launch of Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s REenergise campaign and website…
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Pacific region can’t afford another climate groundhog day
As world leaders gather in Madrid this week for the COP25 UN Climate Change conference, we find ourselves at a critical moment in the climate emergency, writes Joseph Moeono-Kolio, Head of Greenpeace Pacific. Pacific Island Represent! activists joined community members in Navutulevu Village on the Coral Coast to raise awareness about climate change, and plant…
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New Equinor oil spill and safety incident points to danger for the Bight
SYDNEY, Dec 4, 2019 – Just days after Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) received Norwegian company Equinor’s third draft environmental plan for deep-sea oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight – news has emerged of a fresh oil leak and explosion in the company’s European operations.Norway’s safety watchdog has launched…
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The Pacific can’t afford another climate groundhog day
MADRID, Dec 2 2019 – As heads of state gather in Madrid for the 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Pacific leaders are calling for a rapid reduction in coal use to be central to any plan addressing the climate crisis.Any credible plan to confront…
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Bushfire survivors deliver remains of family home to Parliament House: “Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home”
CANBERRA, 2 December 2019 – Survivors of Australia’s ongoing bushfire emergency have delivered the remains of their family home to Parliament House in Canberra this morning, bearing the message ‘Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home’.Melinda Plesman and her partner Dean Kennedy of Nymboida, NSW, lost their family home of 35 years after bushfires tore…
