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Feed-in Tariffs essential to secure Aussie jobs

September 14, 2009

Greenpeace’s Global Energy [R]evolution shows that by 2030, 10 billion tonnes per year of CO2 globally can be avoided, putting us on a path to halving global CO2 emissions by mid-century and reaching the deep cuts that are essential to avoiding catastrophic climate change.

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Working for the Climate

September 14, 2009

Renewable energy and the green job [R]evolution

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Plan B: An Agenda for Immediate Climate Action

June 11, 2009

The federal government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme needs to go back the the drawing board. In the meantime, here's a plan for implementing immediate solutions that will reduce emissions and create jobs.

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Global Concentrating Solar Power Outlook 09: Why Renewable Energy is Hot

May 25, 2009

Concentrating solar power (CSP) is about to step out of the shadow of other renewable technologies and establish itself as the third biggest player in the sustainable power generation industry.

CSP does not compete against other renewable energies; it is an additional one that is now economically viable.

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Copenhagen Climate Summit: Greenpeace Demands

March 24, 2009

The UN climate meeting in Copenhagen must deliver a global deal for the planet's future.

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Final Warning: The world's rapid descent into runaway climate change

March 24, 2009

This report is based on latest data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It includes a ‘call to arms’ from some of the Australia’s leading scientists, commentators and politicians.

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The True Cost of Coal

November 28, 2008

How people and the planet are paying the price for the world's dirtiest fuel.

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Briefing: Will Australians be starved of a renewable energy feed-in tariff?

November 08, 2008

The feed-in tariff (FIT) is the most effective and economic policy driver for renewable energy in the world.

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Blueprint for a Global Energy [R]evolution: Summary

October 28, 2008

This is a 16-page summary of the report that provides a blueprint showing how to apply existing technologies to halve global CO2 emissions by 2050, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption.

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Blueprint for a Global Energy [R]evolution

October 28, 2008

This report provides a blueprint showing how to apply existing technologies to halve global CO2 emissions by 2050, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption.

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Export Coal Briefing: Greenhouse pollution knows no borders

July 27, 2008

It is contradictory and immoral for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to expand Australia's export coal industry whilst talking about urgent action on climate change. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s policies are increasingly at odds with his statements on climate change. Is Mr Rudd going to be the climate leader Australians hoped he would be?

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Eraring Peaceful Action FAQ

July 02, 2008

Greenpeace has taken action against Australia’s single largest source of greenhouse pollution, Eraring coal-fired power station in the Hunter region of NSW, by blocking the coal supply to the plant. Why did Greenpeace do it? We have to stop fuelling climate change when creating electricity. The Rudd government needs to create an energy revolution and make our power comes from clean, safe renewables.

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A Just Transition to a Renewable Energy Economy in the Hunter Region, Australia

June 30, 2008

This report demonstrates major benefits to the Hunter and nearby Wyong region from shifting from coal-fired power to a renewable energy economy.

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Energy [R]evolution Scenario: Australia (Summary)

June 16, 2008

A 12-page summary of Greenpeace's Energy [R]evolution Scenario report.

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Energy [R]evolution Scenario: Australia (Full Report)

June 16, 2008

A blueprint demonstrating how Australia can transform the way it produces and uses energy that will result in massive cuts to CO2 emissions.

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CCS sign on statement

May 05, 2008

More than 100 international NGOs and climate groups, including 40 from Australia, have signed a statement backing a new international report on carbon capture and storage (CCS), which calls for world governments to stop the climate crisis by urgently investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency rather than CCS.

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False Hope: Why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate

May 05, 2008

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) aims to reduce the climate impact of burning fossil fuels by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2)from power station smokestacks and disposing of it underground. Its future development has been widely promoted by the coal industry as a justification for the construction of new coal-fired power plants. However, the technology is largely unproven and will not be ready in time to save the climate.

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Greenpeace submission to the Garnaut Review Emission Trading Scheme Discussion Paper

April 18, 2008

The ETS Discussion paper refers to international linkages to PNG and Indonesia and other Southwest Pacific developing countries with large opportunities to reduce land use change and forestry emissions. Greenpeace would like to make the following recommendations on the Discussion Paper with respect to such international linkages and reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in tropical developing counties in the region.

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Greenpeace submission to Garnaut Climate Change Review

April 16, 2008

The Garnaut Climate Change Review was commissioned by Australia's State and Territory Governments on 30 April 2007. The Review will examine the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy and recommend policies to improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity.

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Summary Newspoll results: Government subsidies to fossil fuels

March 18, 2008

This Newspoll survey, commissioned by Greenpeace, shows that 90% of Australians want to see renewable energy given the same as or more government subsidies than fossil fuels receive.

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Budget 08: time to stop subsidising climate change

March 07, 2008

Public Submission to the 2008-09 Federal Budget.

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The Bali decisions

December 17, 2007

What was actually decided by governments at the climate talks in Bali?

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Newspoll: Action Beyond Kyoto

December 13, 2007

Australians have shown overwhelming support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to take the next steps in the fight against climate change by cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and phasing out electricity generation from coal-fired power stations in the next three years, a Newspoll survey has found.

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Switching from coal must begin now: shutting Munmorah a first step towards phasing out coal

November 14, 2007

To avoid dangerous climate change, massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed in the next decade. The only way of achieving this is to phase out coal-fired power stations using energy efficiency and renewable energy. The next federal government must work with the states to develop a national plan that begins shutting the dirtiest coal plants in australia, and introduce the necessary clean energy policies to make this possible. Power plants like Munmorah in NSW – 40 years old and needing refurbishment – are exactly the kinds of plants that should be shut first.

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Guy Pearse presentation

November 07, 2007

Australia is on the front line of climate change. However, our governments have yet to take real action to reduce greenhouse pollution.

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Policy and government

Greenpeace submission to Garnaut Climate Change Review

April 16, 2008

Switching from coal must begin now: shutting Munmorah a first step towards phasing out coal

November 14, 2007

Citizen Coal: Australia and its neighbours

August 01, 2002

This report, by Greenpeace and the Mineral Policy Institute, examines how Australia's coal exports are locking developing Asian countries into a future based on greenhouse-polluting energy.

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Climate criminals

Sign: Howard + Bush = climate criminals

August 31, 2007

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Coral bleaching

Coral Bleaching

August 19, 2003

Coral bleaching, climate change and the Great Barrier Reef

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Coral Bleaching: Pacific in Peril

October 01, 2000

Biological, economic and social impacts of climate change on Pacific coral reefs

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Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and the Future of the World's Coral Reefs

June 01, 1999

This report details how climate change is damaging entire reef systems in the Pacific and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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Stuart Oil Shale project

Stuart Oil Shale Project

October 01, 2003

No future in shale oil Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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Submission to the Australian Stock Exchange

June 01, 2000

A call for investigation by the Australian Stock Exchange into the conduct of Southern Pacific Petroleum and Central Pacific Minerals in respect of their carbon liability arising from the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

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Environmental Impact Statement Submission

November 19, 1999

Submission from tourism and fishing organisations and environment groups opposing the Stuart Project.

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