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Pacific Climate Justice
The Pacific Islands are experiencing the intensifying impacts of climate change like cyclones, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures – despite contributing less than 0.03% to global emissions. This is climate injustice.
Greedy companies want to mine the seafloor for profit. 2 million people worldwide say no to deep sea mining – will you join them?
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Pacific nations account for only 0.03% of global greenhouse emissions.
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Category 4 and 5 cyclones have doubled in the West Pacific since the 1970’s
Rainbow Warrior’s Mission
Addressing Nuclear and Climate Injustice in the Marshall Islands
In the 1980s, the Rainbow Warrior played a crucial role in helping the people of Rongelap relocate from their radioactive homeland, poisoned by U.S. nuclear testing.
Now, 40 years later, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior returns to the Marshall Islands to stand with the Marshallese people in their ongoing fight for nuclear justice, accountability, and reparations.
This mission will include independent radiation research in affected areas, including Mejatto, Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap, and Wotje, led by experts with decades of experience in radioactive environments.
The mission also aims to highlight the intersecting crises of nuclear injustice and climate change, as the Marshallese face further displacement from the climate crisis and the looming threat of deep-sea mining. The Marshallese continue to call for justice and bold solutions to address these global challenges.
1.5C to stay alive
For decades, the world’s biggest fossil fuel polluters, like Shell, BP and Woodside have been getting away with recklessly destroying our cultures, communities, oceans and lands for profit without consequence.
Australia has a big role to play, as it is the world’s third largest fossil fuel exporter—behind only Saudi Arabia and Russia.
It’s time to keep fossils in the ground to ensure global warming stays below 1.5C – this is simply not a “nice to have” but rather a question of protecting the lives of millions of people and ensuring they have a place they can continue to call home.
What we do
Greenpeace has a long and proud history of working alongside local communities to protect the oceans, lands, and people of the Pacific.
Pacific communities are some of the strongest voices holding world leaders to account and demanding urgent global action to mitigate climate change.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific is currently campaigning for Australian and global leaders to listen to Pacific communities and stop new fossil fuel projects including protecting the Pacific Ocean from Deep Sea Mining.
In 2023 the Rainbow Warrior once again traveled to the Pacific — this time, in support of a groundbreaking Pasifika-led legal campaign, taking climate harm to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific traveled to Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Fiji to celebrate beautiful cultural traditions and document human rights stories of the impacts of climate change for the legal case.
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Get involved
Greenpeace in the US is facing a AU$1 billion lawsuit from Big Oil. Will you help defend Greenpeace?
Greedy companies want to mine the seafloor for profit. 2 million people worldwide say no to deep sea mining – will you join them?
Sign the petition to demand the Australian Government stop new coal, oil and gas projects now.
Will you sign the petition urging Foreign Minister Penny Wong to support this ground-breaking campaign at the world’s highest court?
REPORT: Lost Time and Damaged Reputations. What Australia must do to go from blocker to leader on loss and damage
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Lost Time and Damaged Reputations.
REPORT: Hero to Zero, uncovering the truth of corporate Australia’s climate action claims
The world is experiencing an unprecedented climate crisis. To stabilise global temperatures, and prevent the situation getting even worse, emissions must reach net zero as soon as possible.
REPORT: Australia – Pacific Bully And International Outcast
How Australia’s Climate Policies Isolate It from the Region and the World
Report: Global Warning: the threat to climate defenders in Australia
COP26 reinforced that the Australian Government is dragging its feet on climate action. Strong democratic systems and climate advocacy are now more important than ever. A new report by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, the Human Rights Law Centre and the Environmental Defenders Office documents the importance of climate activism in Australia, maps the systemic repression faced…
REPORT: Te Mana O Te Moana
The state of the climate in the Pacific 2021
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