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Where’s your plan, Scott Morrison? Share this video!
|Pacific Island Represent! activists joined community members in Navutulevu Village on the Coral Coast to raise awareness about climate change, and plant mangroves to slow down coastal erosion.| Watch our video about the IPCC’s 1.5 Degree report, then click to share it with your friends on Facebook, or Twitter! SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER …
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World’s most vulnerable nations demand rich countries act now over climate change
Vulnerable economies call for accelerated financial shift V20 Group fears carbon-intensive energy systems could impair economic stability Bali, Indonesia, 14 October 2018: Finance ministers from the V20 Group of climate vulnerable nations today issued a plea for large-scale shifts to global investment – shifts required if the global community is to embark on the transformational…
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Half of Australian coal plants must close in next seven years
October 9, 2018: More than half of Australia’s coal fired power generation must be phased out in favour of renewable energy by 2025, with the remainder to close by 2030 if we are to limit the catastrophic impacts of climate change, as global report has found.A global plant-by-plant analysis by Greenpeace International and CoalSwarm found…
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The courage of climate hope
Making sense of a 1.5 degree world Greenpeace and Tcktcktck volunteers raise a wind turbine on the beach at dawn in Durban, South Africa. To send a message of hope for the latest round of UN climate change talks opening here on Monday. Campaigners say Durban must be a new dawn for the international negotiations…
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IPCC report points to stark choices ahead, but reason for hope and action
October 8, 2018: Coal consumption must be cut drastically over the next decade and completely by 2050 if humanity is to avoid the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today revealed the massive and urgent task ahead of us to limit global warming while also providing a clear blueprint…
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Why I’m campaigning to save the Great Australian Bight
Grazia from Melbourne explains why she is getting more involved with Greenpeace to save the Great Australian Bight || I didn’t know that The Great Australian Bight even existed (pardon my ignorance) until Greenpeace brought it to my attention with the campaign against oil drilling in this incredibly diverse and rich marine region. The Bight…
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Marshall Islands deliver a moral call to arms to high-polluting nations
September 24, 2018: Greenpeace Australia Pacific congratulates the people of the Marshall Islands and their President, Dr Hilda Heine, on continuing to demonstrate moral leadership on the greatest challenge of our time – climate change.Overnight Heine announced the island nation’s strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – in the process becoming only the…
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Are your friends ready to vote in the Wentworth by-election?
There’s only a few days left to make sure people are ready to vote in the Wentworth by-election. Can you remind your friends, family and colleagues in the area to check their enrolment details so they can vote for climate action on 24 October? SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER Not…
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Get your hand off it, PM! Share this video!
Watch the inspiring Parliament House protest below, then click to share it with your friends on Facebook, or Twitter! SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER Not on social media? Email this link to a friend! >> https://act.gp/2CXQIRI After two weeks of political turmoil and Government infighting that led to yet…
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Get Your Hand Off It! A message to PM Morrison on his first day.
This week we took a trip to Canberra to send an unmissable message to PM Scott Morrison and the coalition on their first day back in parliament. |Greenpeace Australia Pacific climbers have taken to the flagpoles outside the Parliament House in Canberra to send a message to new Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he returns…