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Pacific Youth Hold Flotilla Calling On Leaders To Endorse Climate Justice At Pif
Young Pacific activists and students, alongside Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Amnesty International, and others held a major flotilla calling on world leaders to support climate justice by endorsing the campaign for an advisory opinion on the human rights impacts of climate change at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) kicks…
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Australia’s Transport-Driven Emissions Spike Demonstrates Need To Get Moving On Clean Cars
New Australian emissions data shows that climate pollution increased in 2021, with a faster transition to renewables and the electrification of transport key to course correcting, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said. Australia’s greenhouse gas pollution rose by 0.8 per cent - 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide - in 2021, largely attributed to transport and reliance…
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WA’s Clean Transition Picks Up The Pace With 80% By 2030 Emissions Reduction Target For State Utilities
The McGowan Government setting a strong emissions reduction target of 80% by 2030 for state government agencies is a welcome step in the state’s renewable energy transition, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. McGowan’s power move, which covers state owned utilities such as railways, vehicle fleets, hospitals and schools, follows Western Australia’s announcement last week that its…
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Labor’s $194M For The Reef Welcome Sea-Change, But Greater Ambition To Reduce Emissions Crucial
Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s commitment of $194 million to tackle climate impacts on the Great Barrier Reef has been welcomed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific as important recognition of the damage climate change is wreaking on our fragile marine environment, but must be accompanied by an urgent commitment to emissions reduction. Labor has announced an additional…
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Dire Coral Bleaching Figures Show How Morrison Government Has Failed The Great Barrier Reef
Damage to more than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef during the most recent mass bleaching event is another damning indictment of the Morrison Government, which has failed to protect the Reef and exacerbated the problem through its support of fossil fuels, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The alarming findings were revealed in the Great…
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‘The Pacific Can’t Survive If Richest Corporations And Governments Continue To Put Profits Over People And Planet’
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has warned that the survival of the Pacific is in peril if the world’s biggest polluters continue to put profit over people and planet, in Suva overnight. Prime Minister Loughman made the remarks at the launch event for a powerful coalition of civil society groups who have come together to…
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AGL Loy Yang: A Generator Fault Highlights Fundamental Failure Of Dirty And Unreliable Coal
The announcement that AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, suffered a generator fault at its Loy Yang A coal-burning power station which could cause an outage until 1 August 2022 highlights the risk of running unreliable, dirty coal-burning power stations, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. In the past five years alone, AGL has spent $1.7 billion on…
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Australia Out Of Step With IPCC Call To End Fossil Fuels
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 report, released today, shows the pathway towards a cleaner, safer and cheaper world - but Australia must commit to a very swift exit from fossil fuels to realise it, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The IPCC report focuses on climate solutions, finding that renewable energy backed…