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Greenpeace 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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The cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag - up to two billion...

July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 - 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even...

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Adani’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...

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JOINT 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...

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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...

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Huge 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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Politicians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban...

July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today...

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NAIF 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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The cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag - up to two billion...

July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 - 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even...

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World first court case highlights CommBank’s climate change risk

Sydney, Australia August 8, 2017: Groundbreaking shareholder litigation filed against Australia’s largest bank by its own shareholders will argue that the Commonwealth Bank have failed in their duty to...

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New coal mine approval at Wandoan an affront to common sense

August 9, 2017: The approval of a new coal lease in southern Queensland shows the government are more interested in propping up the fossil fuel industry than protecting communities and the environment....

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Adani’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...

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Prominent Australians’ open letter warns NAIF board against giving $1 billion...

August 10, 2017: Leaders from Australian business, industry, and academia have published an open letter in The Australian Financial Review calling for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility...

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More secret deals at NAIF show ‘slush fund’ must be dissolved

August 11, 2017: The secret deoarture of a board director of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) one week before a senate inquiry is yet another clear sign it is operating as a “slush...

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CommBank must rule out all new coal - not just Adani’s Carmichael mine

Sydney, 11 August 2017: Commonwealth Bank have become the 24th bank to rule out funding the controversial Adani mine, but need to show significantly more ambition and rule out all new coal funding in...

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NAIF 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...

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Greenpeace 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...

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