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New Vehicle Emissions Standards legislation to drive real climate action
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed the Federal Government’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards (NVES) legislation as a win for climate action while warning that any emissions reduction traded away now must be made up for later.
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Media Briefing: Australia’s New Fuel Efficiency Standard
Transport currently makes up 20% and the fastest-growing source of emissions in Australia. By 2030 is it anticipated to be our largest source of emissions, as the electricity grid decarbonises.
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Joint deforestation investigation exposes broken national environment law
SYDNEY, Monday 25 March 2024 — A joint investigation by three of Australia’s leading environmental organisations has uncovered multiple instances of large-scale deforestation which were not referred to the federal government for approval.
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Greenpeace risks expulsion from UN seabed authority meeting for peaceful at-sea protest
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) could today expel Greenpeace from the UN deep sea mining body’s meeting, a move that would fundamentally undermine the right to peaceful protest.
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Major milestone reached in historic climate judgement as States submit arguments to world’s highest court
AMSTERDAM / SYDNEY / SUVA, Friday 22 March 2024 — Today marks a significant milestone in the historic campaign to take climate change to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as the deadline for State written submissions closes.
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BUSTED! Greenpeace AP reveals AAA’s efforts to water down emissions standards
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today called on Australia’s largest motoring clubs to condemn the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) for its repeated efforts, including with the fossil fuel car and petroleum lobbies, to water down limits on car pollution and slow the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia.
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Seventh Great Barrier Reef mass bleaching a desperate warning to end fossil fuels
SYDNEY, Friday 8 March 2024 — The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has today officially confirmed that the World Heritage-listed wonder is undergoing a seventh mass coral bleaching event — the fifth in just eight years.
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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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New Greenpeace research reveals shocking scale of deforestation crisis in Australia
SYDNEY, Wednesday 6 March 2024 — New independent research commissioned by Greenpeace has revealed the shocking impact of the deforestation crisis in Australia, with huge swathes of federally-mapped koala and threatened species habitat bulldozed in Queensland.
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“Self-interested whiners” Toyota push for weak pollution laws disappointing but unsurprising
Toyota Australia reveals it won’t be beaten on its ambition to wreck the climate with polluting vehicles, with comments today showing it remains committed to scuttling vital emissions standards for new cars whatever the cost to Australians, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today.