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NSW Labor plans for more dirty coal power stations put to the test
Press release – 15 November, 2010Land and Environment Court Papers will be filed today in the Land and Environment Court by the Hunter Community Environment Centre (HCEC) that will challenge the State government’s decision to rehabilitate one of the State’s oldest and dirtiest power stations – Munmorah.If Munmorah is allowed to be rehabilitated, rather than…
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Kiribati : the frontline of Climate Change
This week 40 officials from around the world will fly to the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati to attend The Tarawa Climate Change Conference (TCCC) Blog post by Daniel Loo, Greenpeace Activist born in Kiribati Officially known as the Republic of Kiribati, it is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It…
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Greenpeace delegation at the CBD
Trying to save the planet can sometimes mean you have to spend hours in hot, stuffy meeting rooms listening to complex discussions that often go nowhere. © Kazuya Hokari / Greenpeace Blog from Nathalie Rey, Head of the Greenpeace delegation But this year’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in late October 2010 in Nagoya…
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A Golden Chainsaw for Papua New Guinea
Today I gave Greenpeace’s Golden Chainsaw award to the representative of the Government of PNG at talks on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestaion and Degradation). Her name is Federica Bietta and she is also representing PNG as co-chair on special REDD Partnership negotiations. Myself and the team, including a photographer got up early to make…
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Continued inaction is not an option at the CBD
Our Pacific Political Advisor Seni Nabou reports back from the first few days of meetings at the UN’s Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan. As a Pacific Islander, attending these big world conferences can be overwhelming. The sheer size, grandeur, pomp, ceremony and alien language (diplo-speak) are enough to cower any sane individual…
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Who knew real change would look like this?
The seconds and minutes ticked by as the nation waited to know the outcome of the 2010 federal election. 2pm came and went, Bob Katter briefly appeared to let the Australian people know he would be going with the Coalition, and still we all waited for the two Independents to arrive and cast their deciding…
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Australia’s second climate change election
When Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election in a landslide, it was heralded as the world’s first climate change election. Three years later, having squandered their mandate, the ALP went to Saturday’s election having tried to bury the issue. With little clear difference between the offerings of the two major parties, and neither pushing their…
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The election of denial and delay
Leading into this Saturday’s election, Greenpeace sent all Parties and sitting members our election asks. The Greens are the only party that have responded directly to us. The Coalition and the ALP have released various relevant policies over the course of the election campaign. The good news first. This is the short bit. The ALP…
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Are Fish and Chips a Greater Threat to Whales than Harpoons?
One of our campaigners in New Zealand, Karli Thomas, sent me a link to a recent program from 60 minutes New Zealand. It contains some disturbing information. We know that whales face many threats beyond whaling including ship strikes, entanglement in fishing nets and the impacts of climate change. But the program contains evidence…
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Will Julia learn from failed leaders on climate?
Failure to act on climate change claimed the political scalp of Kevin Rudd and John Howard before him. How Julia Gillard responds to the issue will play a crucial role in the success of her leadership. Regardless of what Tony Abbott may hope, climate change isn’t going away as a public issue. It will continue…