New polling shows need for extreme weather levy
Sydney 3rd September, 2014. Polling conducted by Lonergan Research reveals Australians have made the link between the increase in extreme weather events and the real threat of rising insurance...
View ArticleMan-made heat waves demand urgent action
Sydney 1st October, 2014. Following the publication of Australian research concluding that it was ‘virtually impossible’ for the 2013 heatwaves in Australia to have taken place without human-caused...
View ArticleLEGO ends 50 year link with Shell, after one million people respond to Save...
Friday 10 october, 2014: Following a Greenpeace campaign, LEGO published a statement [1] this morning committing to ‘not renew the co-promotion contract with Shell’. This decision comes a month after...
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Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs,...
Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs, academics, celebs16 October 2015. Peak environment groups, top chefs, fishers, academics and celebrities are calling for more...
View ArticleSydney Uni alumni call for divestment from Whitehaven Coal
Sydney, Wednesday 22nd October: Over 400 Sydney University alumni have today published an open letter in the University’s paper, Honi Soit, calling on Vice Chancellor Michael Spence to uphold the...
View ArticleGreenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to be released by Russian authorities in...
Amsterdam/Sydney 7 June 2014. Russia’s investigative committee (IC), late yesterday Sydney time, informed Greenpeace International that it has annulled the arrest of the ship Arctic Sunrise, which has...
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 ArticleReaction to reports that dumping on Great Barrier Reef abandoned: Hunt should...
Sydney, 02 September 2014: Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed reports that coal port developers have abandoned plans to dump dredge waste from Abbot Point in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.“If...
View ArticleGreenpeace welcomes NSW Government push back on Whitehaven Coal Company
Sydney 23rd October, 2014. Greenpeace has praised the Department of Planning and Environment’s decision to restrict the clearing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal Company (WHC) to between...
View ArticleLEGO ends 50 year link with Shell, after one million people respond to Save...
Friday 10 october, 2014: Following a Greenpeace campaign, LEGO published a statement [1] this morning committing to ‘not renew the co-promotion contract with Shell’. This decision comes a month after...
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Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs,...
Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs, academics, celebs16 October 2015. Peak environment groups, top chefs, fishers, academics and celebrities are calling for more...
View ArticleNew report reveals the cost of doing business without social licence
Sydney 28 October 2014. An historic alliance has gathered on the day of the Whitehaven Coal Company’s (WHC) AGM to launch a major new report detailing the extent to which this controversial coal...
View ArticleAustralian banks under scrutiny as world’s top investment banks rule out...
Tuesday, 28 October, 2014, Sydney: On the back of news today that some of the largest investment banks in the world are distancing themselves from financing the controversial Abbot Point coal port...
View ArticleEnvironment Minister fast-tracks coal expansion on Great Barrier Reef
Brisbane, 29 October 2014: Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has fast-tracked the approval of the world’s biggest coal port in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef today, ignoring impacts on the...
View ArticleReaction to reports that dumping on Great Barrier Reef abandoned: Hunt should...
Sydney, 02 September 2014: Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed reports that coal port developers have abandoned plans to dump dredge waste from Abbot Point in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.“If...
View ArticleQueensland taxpayers should not foot bill for Reef destruction
Greenpeace is alarmed by reports that the Queensland Government is proposing to buy dredge waste from Reef destruction at Abbot Point.It is reported that the Queensland Government plans to use the...
View ArticleGreenpeace welcomes NSW Government push back on Whitehaven Coal Company
Sydney 23rd October, 2014. Greenpeace has praised the Department of Planning and Environment’s decision to restrict the clearing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal Company (WHC) to between...
View ArticleDirect Action: an invoice to future generations
Sydney 29 October, 2014. “Legislating the Direct Action plan is to climate policy what abolishing the criminal code is to law and order – a recipe for chaos,” according to Greenpeace campaigner, Nic...
View ArticleCarbon Price repeal blindly irrational
Thursday 17 July, 2014: Following the repeal of the Carbon Price, Greenpeace reminded Prime Minister Tony Abbott that his government is still committed to reducing Australia’s emissions by five per...
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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