Climate

Sydney, Monday 9 January, 2012: Greenpeace is calling on Energy Minister Martin Ferguson to give a full clarification and the release of all materials relating to the surveillance activities carried out against Greenpeace and other environmental... Read more >

Monday December 19, Sydney: With the submission process closing on 19 December, Greenpeace is calling on the Government to reject the application for what would be Australia’s biggest coal mine, proposed in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. Read more >

Darling Harbour, Sydney 16 December 2011: Today a new alliance of polar bears, Greenpeace volunteers and ANZ shareholders joined forces at the bank’s AGM to demand CEO, Mike Smith, come clean on the bank’s new energy policy and its associated... Read more >

Durban/Sydney – 11 December 2011 - As the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban draw to a close Greenpeace declared that it was clear governments across the world listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening... Read more >

Major Polluters Singled Out Week Before United Nations Climate Change Conference in South Africa Read more >

‘Julia, keep your word on HRL’ Read more >

Greenpeace Australia Pacific today welcomed the passage of the clean energy legislation through the Senate but said there is still more to do to ensure Australia moves to a low carbon future. Read more >

Bangladeshi NGO Friendship to turn it into hospital ship Read more >

SYDNEY, 15 August, 2011: This morning at Muswellbrook Local Court, five Greenpeace activists pleaded guilty to charges related to blocking a BHP Billiton coal train from Mt Arthur coal mine in the Hunter Valley - one of the most polluting mines... Read more >

Today’s carbon price announcement by Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, provides an historic opportunity to move from a high risk, high polluting economy to a safe, sustainable clean economy - but it still leaves a lot of work to be done - according... Read more >

Canberra Friday 17 June 2011 With big polluting companies suggesting an end to life as we know it should they have to pay for their pollution, it is vital the Multi Party Climate Change Committee accepts two central facts: First, big polluting... Read more >

Time for BHP Billiton to stand and deliver its tax debt Read more >

Greenpeace is calling for a dramatic increase in emissions reductions targets following revelations in a new Australian National University (ANU) report that a 5% target is rendered meaningless by sub prime offsets from the land use and forestry... Read more >

Greenpeace is condemning ANZ’s hypocrisy after revelations the bank tried to hide a $150 million loan to recommission a highly polluting power station in Western Australia. This came just two weeks after accepting a major international award for... Read more >

Land and Environment Court Papers will be filed today in the Land and Environment Court by the Hunter Community Environment Centre (HCEC) that will challenge the State government’s decision to rehabilitate one of the State’s oldest and... Read more >

Greenpeace activists have ended today’s protest at ANZ after the company agreed to high level discussions on the future financing of polluting power. Read more >

This morning at 8.15 am (EST) Greenpeace activists scaled ANZ’s Brisbane HQ at 324 Queen Street, hanging a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo: ‘ANZ: We pollute your world’ Read more >

Last night (Tuesday) Greenpeace launched a new campaign to illuminate the role of ANZ as the biggest financier of polluting coal power in Australia. Read more >

Sydney, September 15, 2010 – Greenpeace is calling on the new Gillard Government to live up to its election promises and block the construction of a new brown coal-fired power station. Read more >