Civil society acts as the IPCC reports
Maules Creek, Monday 31st March 2014: As the global community comes to terms with the dire warning delivered today by the latest report into the impacts of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel...
View ArticleUniversity of Sydney caught out funding destruction of Indigenous heritage...
Sydney, Tuesday 19 August 2014: Revelations the University of Sydney has $1 million invested in Whitehaven Coal and its controversial new coal mine at Maules Creek has left farmers, Aboriginal Elders...
View ArticleGreenpeace calls on Pru Goward to resist Whitehaven Coal pressure to approve...
Thursday 21 August 2014, Sydney: Revelations have come to light today that controversial company Whitehaven Coal has begun a process to seek approval for a new Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) before...
View ArticleWhitehaven Coal thwarted as fresh activists step in to stop forest clearing
Maules Creek, NSW, Monday 2 June 2014: As tree-climbing activists hinder bulldozing for the fourth day in a row, Greenpeace is calling on the NSW Government to urgently stop forest clearing in the...
View ArticleMEDIA ALERT: Snap mass rally to halt bulldozing of Leard Forest for coal mine
On the eve of World Environment Day, a coalition of national environment groups, Labor and Greens MPs and farmers hold snap rally to protest bulldozing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal....
View ArticleNew report reveals Origin, EnergyAustralia and AGL's attack on the Renewable...
SYDNEY, 23 JUNE 2014. With Australia’s Renewable Energy Target under review by the Federal Government, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has released a new report which analyses why and how Australia’s...
View ArticleNew evidence reveals Australian companies trading in paper from Indonesian...
Jakarta, Sydney: 8 July 2014 - Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper company, APRIL, which is part of the RGE Group, has been caught out in photographic evidence clearing rainforests and fire-prone...
View ArticleLet me google that for you, Minister: Greenpeace sets the record straight for...
Sydney, 29 July 2014: Claims by Environment Minister Greg Hunt suggesting Greenpeace has has been too hard on the Liberal Government can be disproved with a simple Google search, says...
View ArticleGreenpeace/TEC launch Green Electricity Guide - ranks power companies,...
A new, independent online Green Electricity Guide, produced by Greenpeace Australia and the Total Environment Centre, provides a state by state ranking of electricity retailers against seven criteria,...
View ArticleGreenpeace welcomes Sydney University’s move away from dirty investments and...
Sydney, Wednesday 27 August 2014: Greenpeace welcomes yesterday’s announcement by the University of Sydney that it will “make no further investments in the coal and consumable fuels subsector of the...
View ArticlePublic thirst for Cash for Containers leads governments into voter danger
The Boomerang Alliance, a coalition of 28 environment groups, says the continued lack of action at a national or state level on cash for containers after a meeting of Environment Ministers on Tuesday,...
View ArticleWinter clearing stopped as Whitehaven Coal raises the white flag
Sydney, Thursday 12 June 2014: Today, winter clearing at Australia’s most controversial new coal mine – Maules Creek - was stopped after Whitehaven gave the Land and Environment Court an undertaking to...
View ArticleGreenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise departs Russian port after ten months in custody
Amsterdam/Sydney 1 August 2014. More than 300 days after it was illegally boarded following a high profile peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has finally...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Target report a kick in the guts for clean energy
Following release of the Warburton review of the Renewable Energy Target, Greenpeace today urged the Abbott government to reject its recommendations and retain the target which has grown Australia’s...
View ArticleWhitehaven Coal thwarted as fresh activists step in to stop forest clearing
Maules Creek, NSW, Monday 2 June 2014: As tree-climbing activists hinder bulldozing for the fourth day in a row, Greenpeace is calling on the NSW Government to urgently stop forest clearing in the...
View ArticleMEDIA ALERT: Snap mass rally to halt bulldozing of Leard Forest for coal mine
On the eve of World Environment Day, a coalition of national environment groups, Labor and Greens MPs and farmers hold snap rally to protest bulldozing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal....
View ArticleControversial mega-mine delayed
Tuesday 17 June, 2014: Greenpeace today welcomed Greg Hunt's decision to delay the approval of the controversial Carmichael mega-mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, but is calling on the Environment...
View ArticleNew report reveals Origin, EnergyAustralia and AGL's attack on the Renewable...
SYDNEY, 23 JUNE 2014. With Australia’s Renewable Energy Target under review by the Federal Government, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has released a new report which analyses why and how Australia’s...
View ArticleNew evidence reveals Australian companies trading in paper from Indonesian...
Jakarta, Sydney: 8 July 2014 - Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper company, APRIL, which is part of the RGE Group, has been caught out in photographic evidence clearing rainforests and fire-prone...
View ArticleLet me google that for you, Minister: Greenpeace sets the record straight for...
Sydney, 29 July 2014: Claims by Environment Minister Greg Hunt suggesting Greenpeace has has been too hard on the Liberal Government can be disproved with a simple Google search, says...
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