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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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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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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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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…
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Poll: Vast majority of Aussies want corporates to re-energize with 100% renewable energy
SYDNEY, November 26, 2019 – Almost 70% of Australians want companies to set a goal of 100% renewable energy as part of their responsibility to tackle climate change, according to a new Ucomms poll released today commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The poll also revealed that almost 80% of Australians agreed that Australian companies should be…
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Sydneysiders don dust masks as bushfires make the city a global air pollution hot spot
SYDNEY, Nov 19 2019 – Sydneysiders continue to choke on hazardous air pollution with catastrophic bushfire smoke blanketing large parts of NSW and making Sydney the 11th most polluted city in the world.Today Greenpeace volunteers in the Sydney CBD handed out dust masks as air pollution levels soared to levels 10-25 times higher than World Health…
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Equinor rejected after failing to plug gaps in safety plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight
SYDNEY, Nov 11 2019 – Norwegian oil company Equinor has had its proposal to drill in the Great Australian Bight rejected for a second time, after again failing to convince the safety regulator it can drill without putting the entire southern coast of Australia at risk of a catastrophic oil spill.Earlier today the National Offshore…
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Equinor to spray banned chemical dispersant that harms whales and workers in the Great Australian Bight
SYDNEY, Nov 7, 2019 – Regulators will bend the rules to allow Equinor to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight by deploying a banned chemical cocktail that doesn’t work and is toxic to humans and marine life, according to a new report by Professor Jodie Rummer and Greenpeace.Equinor’s plans, due to…