Conflict of interest: Australia stoops to new low at UN climate talks
Friday May 12, 2017: Australia’s support for fossil fuel companies’ participation in UN discussions on climate is a new low, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, citing a clear conflict...
View ArticleJulie Bishop’s PR stunt a travesty of science: the Reef is in serious danger
Tuesday, 16 May 2017: The foreign minister Julie Bishop’s snorkelling junket for 75 foreign ambassadors off Cairns yesterday [1] was a transparent PR stunt to persuade UN nations that the Reef is fine...
View ArticleMore than 100 authors sign Greenpeace’s pledge for free speech and forest...
New York, 31 May 2017 -- More than 100 authors from around the world including Nobel Prize writer John Maxwell Coetzee (Disgrace); comedian Stephen Fry (More Fool Me); Man Booker Prize winners Margaret...
View ArticleThe world will resist Trump’s attempt to derail climate action
Friday June 2, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement and affirmed that the rest of the world will continue to make...
View ArticleGreenpeace suspends 70 square metre banner calling on Commonwealth Bank to...
Sydney, May 5, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have suspended a seventy square meter banner to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank that they must withdraw their financial support of...
View ArticleCarmichael mine no ‘day-to-day’ transaction for Commonwealth Bank
Monday May 8, 2017: Attempts by the Commonwealth Bank to write off their facilitation of Adani's Carmichael mega-mine as simply a “day-to-day” transaction are a cop out, Greenpeace Australia Pacific...
View Article‘Royalties holiday’ a slap in the face to the Queensland community
Thursday, 18 May 2017: The Queensland Government’s plan to offer the Carmichael coal mine a cash handout in the form of a "royalties holiday" is a disgrace and shows that they have turned their back on...
View ArticleDefying gravity to change thinking on global warming
26 May 2017: Ogilvy & Mather and Greenpeace Australia Pacific have joined forces to create an astonishing interactive display that appears to reverse gravity as a way to provoke new thinking about...
View ArticleConflict of interest: Australia stoops to new low at UN climate talks
Friday May 12, 2017: Australia’s support for fossil fuel companies’ participation in UN discussions on climate is a new low, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, citing a clear conflict...
View ArticleJulie Bishop’s PR stunt a travesty of science: the Reef is in serious danger
Tuesday, 16 May 2017: The foreign minister Julie Bishop’s snorkelling junket for 75 foreign ambassadors off Cairns yesterday [1] was a transparent PR stunt to persuade UN nations that the Reef is fine...
View ArticleAdani’s Carmichael mine would be a disaster for communities and a death...
June 6, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned today’s announcement by the Adani board about the Carmichael mine as an “empty PR stunt” for a toxic project which is unable to go ahead without...
View ArticleAustralia standing in the way of cleaner steel, Greenpeace report shows
Thursday, 8 June 2017: Australia has played a key role in enabling the global steel industry to become more, not less, emission intensive, a new Greenpeace report has shown. Released today, the...
View ArticleStatoil’s plans to drill in the Bight represent catastrophic risk and should...
Plans announced today by Norwegian oil company, Statoil, to conduct exploratory drilling in the Great Australian Bight will face intense opposition from the Australian community because of the extreme...
View ArticleGreenpeace suspends 70 square metre banner calling on Commonwealth Bank to...
Sydney, May 5, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have suspended a seventy square meter banner to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank that they must withdraw their financial support of...
View ArticleCarmichael mine no ‘day-to-day’ transaction for Commonwealth Bank
Monday May 8, 2017: Attempts by the Commonwealth Bank to write off their facilitation of Adani's Carmichael mega-mine as simply a “day-to-day” transaction are a cop out, Greenpeace Australia Pacific...
View Article‘Royalties holiday’ a slap in the face to the Queensland community
Thursday, 18 May 2017: The Queensland Government’s plan to offer the Carmichael coal mine a cash handout in the form of a "royalties holiday" is a disgrace and shows that they have turned their back on...
View ArticleDefying gravity to change thinking on global warming
26 May 2017: Ogilvy & Mather and Greenpeace Australia Pacific have joined forces to create an astonishing interactive display that appears to reverse gravity as a way to provoke new thinking about...
View ArticleJOINT RELEASE: Call to cease plastic bag plague – new poll
With over one billion plastic bags littered in the last 10 years, it’s time for a ban, key environment groups said today, as Australia’s environment ministers prepare to meet on the issue.They also...
View ArticleGovernment can't afford to turn blind eye to climate change
Tuesday May 9, 2017: The Turnbull government has continued to ignore climate change and the need to fund renewable energy at a time when the country is demanding leadership on the most serious threat...
View ArticleGreenpeace suspends 70 square metre banner calling on Commonwealth Bank to...
Sydney, May 5, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have suspended a seventy square meter banner to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank that they must withdraw their financial support of...
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