Public backlash highlights CommBank’s toxic fossil fuel problem
Sydney, 23 June 2017: Community backlash against the Commonwealth Bank’s support of fossil fuels is now so severe that the bank has been forced to set up a special taskforce to handle customers...
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 ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
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 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 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 ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleThai Union Commits to More Sustainable, Socially-Responsible Seafood
BANGKOK, 11 JULY 2017 – Thai Union Group PCL has committed to measures that will tackle illegal fishing and overfishing, as well as improve the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers...
View ArticleCarbon plan meaningless if we don’t cut coal exports
July 12, 2017: The Queensland government’s plan to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050 will do nothing to protect the Great Barrier Reef or the country from climate change if Australia does not...
View ArticleHuge iceberg breaks off Antarctic Peninsula Larsen C ice shelf
Amsterdam, 12 July 2017 - Responding to news that one of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf, Paul Johnston, head of Greenpeace...
View ArticleNAIF inquiry must hold secretive ‘slush fund’ to account
June 14, 2017: The inquiry into the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) should recommend the removal of conflicted members from the facility’s board and ensure billions of dollars of...
View ArticleGreenpeace condemns APPCO practices
June 19, 2017: The practices and culture revealed during yesterday’s Sunday Night program appear to show company using the good name of charities to take advantage of the Australian public. The program...
View ArticleGreenpeace study finds renewable energy will be cheapest electricity in G20...
Hamburg, 5 July 2017 – Wind energy and solar power will be the cheapest form of power generation in every G20 country by the year 2030 at the latest, a new Greenpeace Germany report has found.Ahead of...
View ArticlePoliticians left lagging behind as Woolworths bans single-use plastic bags
July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths to completely phase out single-use plastic bags by June, 2018.The supermarket giant today announced they would no...
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 ArticlePublic backlash highlights CommBank’s toxic fossil fuel problem
Sydney, 23 June 2017: Community backlash against the Commonwealth Bank’s support of fossil fuels is now so severe that the bank has been forced to set up a special taskforce to handle customers...
View ArticleHuge iceberg breaks off Antarctic Peninsula Larsen C ice shelf
Amsterdam, 12 July 2017 - Responding to news that one of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf, Paul Johnston, head of Greenpeace...
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