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Back-to-back bleaching events show urgent need for government action on climate change
Press release – 9 April, 2017Sydney, 10 April 2017 – Our leaders are failing the to address the root cause of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef with a new report showing their inaction has seen two-thirds of the coral hit by back-to-back events.New data released today by Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre…
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Plan to use giant pump to cool Great Barrier Reef shows why we should throw cold water on Carmichael coal mine proposal
Press release – 6 April, 2017Friday, April 7, 2017: A proposal to pump cold water to areas of the Great Barrier Reef most affected by coral bleaching shows how dire the situation has become, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific.“The failure of our governments to act on climate change is forcing tourism operators to explore costly, localised,…
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Cyclone brings only destruction
A cyclone isn’t going to save the Great Barrier Reef. It’s a sentence that feels like it shouldn’t need to be said out loud. But if you were watching TV as cyclone Debbie bore down on the Queensland coast you would have seen hopeful tourism operators take to the airwaves and claim that…
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100 people converge on Commonwealth Bank HQ demanding it dump coal investments
Press release – 29 March, 2017Sydney, Monday, 27 March 2017: Hundreds of community activists converged on CommBank’s headquarters in Darling Harbour this morning, urging the bank to stop playing with their future by investing billions of dollars in coal.The protest is a reaction to CommBank’s latest multi-million dollar advertising campaign about securing certainty for the…
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Report: With new data showing the world moving away from coal power Australia must end taxpayer handouts to the industry
Press release – 28 March, 2017WEDNESDAY March 20, 2017: New research highlighting the decline of coal worldwide combined with recent bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef should serve as a wakeup call to stop using taxpayers’ money to prop up a dying industry.The report, Boom and Bust 2017: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline,…
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Fields of dead or dying coral seen in new Great Barrier Reef footage
Press release – 28 March, 2017Sydney, 24 March 2017 – For the first time, the devastating coral bleaching striking the Great Barrier Reef has been captured with close range UAV footage, released today by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The footage, shot on 17 March at the outer reefs off Port Douglas, shows the silent and high-speed destruction…
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I found coal washed up on a beach on the Great Barrier Reef coast
It was a Sunday morning in July, 2015, that I got a chance to board the Rainbow Warrior as a member and go on a guided tour of the vessel. When I was on the rubber dinghy on the way out to the boat I remember thinking, “I hope there is some type of an…
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Together, we’re making this global
Devastating news was confirmed last week. The Great Barrier Reef is being hit by a second mass coral bleaching event in just two years. Thousands of us have called on the Australian government to act on stop reef destruction. It’s crucial that this event is a wake-up call for our leaders to choose a clean energy…
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Hey CommBank, we’re here. Please stop funding dirty coal.
Early this morning I joined a group of amazing volunteers who headed to the CommBank headquarters in Sydney with a message for the bank: stop funding new coal projects. You can speak up too by signing the petition to the CEO Ian Narev here. CommBank loaned more money to dirty fossil fuels in 2016 than…
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Remember the Reef
NOTE: Since the time of writing, scientists have announced that for the second year in a row, a major coral bleaching event is unfolding. You can take action here. My name is Sid French. I’m a supporter of Greenpeace Australia Pacific as well as a member of the general assembly, our governing body. I’ve just recently…