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How Australia’s coal exports industry threatens climate crisis
Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases — 88% as much as it produces domestically. Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases —…
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Australia standing in the way of cleaner steel, Greenpeace report shows
Thursday, 8 June 2017: Australia has played a key role in enabling the global steel industry to become more, not less, emission intensive, a new Greenpeace report has shown. Released today, the Steeling the Future report shows that Australia deliberately “sought and won its position as the world’s pre-eminent facilitator of the dirtiest steelmaking process” with nearly…
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Sorting out Fact from Fiction: Is the Carmichael Mine back on track?
Yesterday, amid much fanfare, it was announced that Adani Group had given the Carmichael coal mine “the go-ahead.” Who gave the “green light” for the project you ask? The board of the company that has been trying to build the mine for the past seven years! To help you cut through the spin, we have…
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Adani’s Carmichael mine would be a disaster for communities and a death sentence for the Great Barrier Reef
Press release – 5 June, 2017June 6, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned today’s announcement by the Adani board about the Carmichael mine as an “empty PR stunt” for a toxic project which is unable to go ahead without billions of dollars in public money.The mining giant’s chairman today gave his final investment approval for…
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‘My daughter isn’t born yet, but I worry about the world I’m bringing her into.’
Nicola Bowskill was one of dozens of local community members who took their dirty laundry to the Newcastle coal port in an effort to let Commonwealth Bank know about the devastating consequences of their lending to fossil fuel companies. Nicola Bowskill was one of dozens of local community members who took their dirty laundry to the…
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This is exactly how terrible Trump’s climate change decision is
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords has tangible costs for the entire world. Here are five ramifications we can expect to see. Originally published on Mamamia 1. The US could become the highest emitting country in the world America is currently the second largest contributor globally of…
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Will CBA’s board vote against financing Adani – and against global warming?
The fate of a company’s reputation can come down to one big decision made at a single board meeting. Later this month, the directors of the Commonwealth Bank face just such a moment of truth when the bank’s board is expected to decide the business’ future policy on global warming. Originally published on The…
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We’ve failed The Great Barrier Reef
The largest living structure on Earth, formerly 2,300 kilometres long and visible even from space. Home to countless species of marine life and economic support to more than 60,000 people. As much as half of the Great Barrier Reef is now dead. The largest living structure on Earth, formerly 2,300 kilometres long and visible even…
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‘Royalties holiday’ a slap in the face to the Queensland community
Press release – 17 May, 2017Thursday, 18 May 2017: The Queensland Government’s plan to offer the Carmichael coal mine a cash handout in the form of a "royalties holiday" is a disgrace and shows that they have turned their back on the community.Leaked details [1] of the proposal this morning revealed Adani, the operator of…
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Australia going dark on climate change
The Australian government is choosing to remain silent on climate change in the hope that it can fly under the radar. The Australian government is choosing to remain silent on climate change in the hope that it can fly under the radar. This week we saw Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the helm of…