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Greenpeace Australia Pacific Takes Woodside To Court Alleging Misleading Climate Claims
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has filed a lawsuit against fossil fuel giant Woodside in the Federal Court of Australia overnight. The case could see Woodside held to account for allegedly misleading and/or deceiving the Australian public about the enormous climate harm of its gas and oil projects. Greenpeace Australia Pacific alleges that the fossil fuel giant…
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Toyota’s Appeal On Dodgy Diesels Denied
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed a Full Court decision yesterday, which largely knocked back Toyota’s appeal against compensation payouts for defective filters. Greenpeace campaigner Joe Rafalowicz said the appeal showed how far Toyota would go to avoid responsibility for its dodgy diesels. “This case is one more in a long line of dodgy behaviour from…
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Greenpeace Files ACCC Greenwashing Complaint Against Toyota
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate whether environmental claims by Toyota are misleading or deceptive. The request, made by the Environmental Defenders Office on behalf of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, focuses on claims made by Toyota Motor Corporation regarding the environmental performance of its vehicles and its…
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Toyota Car Sales To Push Planet Beyond 1.5C Heating Limit: Study
Carmakers worldwide, including Australians most trusted brand Toyota, are on track to sell an estimated 400 million more diesel and petrol vehicles than is feasible to keep global heating under 1.5°C, according to a new report published by Greenpeace Germany. [1][2] The overshoot is equivalent to approximately five times the total number of cars and…
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Campaign Recap: Australia’s Greatest Liability
For Evergreen 2022 This year we’ve been taking on Australian energy giant, AGL. Read on to hear about Greenpeace’s role in pressuring AGL to close their dirty, coal-fired power stations. Action at AGL HQ in Melbourne to condemn their Climate Pollution. 28 March 2022.|Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists hold action at AGL’s office headquarters in Melbourne,…
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Toyota Just Doesn’t Get It
The world has moved on from polluting hybrid vehicles, and the fact that Toyota is still expecting a gold star for a small number of hybrid sales over 25 years points to exactly how far behind the company really is. “Toyota clearly just doesn’t get it. The world has moved on from polluting hybrid vehicles,…
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Safeguard Mechanism Must End “Free Pass To Pollute”: Greenpeace
The Federal Government’s review of the Safeguard Mechanism, which regulates climate pollution from Australian corporations, must draw a line in the sand under the free pass to pollute that fossil fuel companies currently enjoy, urges Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s submission to the Federal Safeguard Mechanism review calls for a climate-science aligned emissions reduction…
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Woodside’s Final Browse Plan Shows Why This Toxic Project Must Be Stopped
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned the “unacceptable” climate and environmental impacts listed in Woodside’s final Environmental Impact Statement for its Browse gas field, saying that it confirms why this toxic offshore drilling project must not go ahead. The Browse Environmental Impact Statement confirms that the gas field will produce approximately 1.6 billion tonnes of climate…
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Toyota Ranked Last In Global Green Car Report
A Greenpeace East Asia report ranking global car makers on their environmental credentials has placed Australia’s top-selling carmaker Toyota at the back of the pack.
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Demerger Documents ‘The Height Of Greenwashing’ As Both AGL And Accel Set To Breach Paris Climate Targets
Documents released today by AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, outlining the details of its proposed demerger cement the company’s environmentally and financially ruinous path, revealing that both entities will breach Paris-aligned climate targets and slow the global energy transition, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.