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...
View ArticleThe 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...
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...
View ArticlePoliticians 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...
View ArticleProminent 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleCommonwealth Bank flunks climate test
August 14, 2017: The climate policy released today by the Commonwealth Bank is significantly worse than expected and will do nothing to restore the bank’s tattered reputation. CommBank today released a...
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...
View ArticlePoliticians 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...
View ArticleProminent 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleGovernment doing nothing to protect communities from toxic power plants
August 15, 2017: A report has found that levels of toxic air pollution emitted by Australian coal fired power plants are so high that many of them would be illegal in the US and Europe. Released today...
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 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 ArticleCommBank 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...
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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