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UN mission can’t become a tourism campaign as Great Barrier Reef hit by fourth mass coral bleaching in six years

SYDNEY, March 25 2022 – The UN monitoring mission in Australia to assess the health of the Reef must be taken to see the fourth mass coral bleaching event in six years confirmed today by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. [1]Last week GBRMPA reported “severe” and “widespread” bleaching…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
March 25, 2022
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Impacts, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Climate change causes severe and widespread coral bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef in La Niña year

SYDNEY, March 18 2022 – The Great Barrier Reef suffering severe and widespread coral bleaching with higher temperatures during a La Niña year when average ocean temperatures are cooler, is clear evidence of the Morrison Government’s failure to protect the Reef from the impacts of climate change, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. Earlier today the Great Barrier…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
March 18, 2022
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Impacts, Great Barrier Reef, Climate Solutions, COP, Scott Reef, Western Australia, Scott Morrison

Morrison’s UNESCO Reef Report “the height of hypocrisy”: Greenpeace

SYDNEY, Feb 3 2022 – Australia’s update to the World Heritage Committee on its efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef is the height of hypocrisy, Greenpeace said, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison asking the global community to fight harder against climate change while refusing to accelerate climate action and supporting the expansion of the…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
February 3, 2022
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Impacts, Great Barrier Reef, Scott Reef, Western Australia, Queensland, Scott Morrison

Morrison Government missing in action as Reef outlook goes from bad to catastrophic

SYDNEY, Feb 2 2022 – A new study warning that almost all coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, will suffer regular heat stress even if global heating is capped at 1.5 degrees Celsius provides further proof of the urgent need for the Morrison Government to rapidly reduce emissions by replacing fossil fuels with renewable…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
February 1, 2022
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Impacts, Great Barrier Reef, Scott Reef, Western Australia, Scott Morrison

Morrison Government will do almost anything to protect the Reef, except address climate change

SYDNEY, Jan 28 2022 – The Morrison Government’s pledge to spend an additional $1 billion over a decade on Great Barrier Reef conservation projects shows that it is willing to do almost anything to protect the Reef, except reduce the fossil fuel emissions that cause climate change, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said.Today Prime Minister Scott Morrison…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
January 27, 2022
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Great Australian Bight, Safeguard our oceans, Fossil Fuels, Bunnings, Plastic Free Future, Coke, COP, Human Rights

Escalating suppression of climate defenders exposed in new investigation

Major new research has identified a clear and alarming trend that sees climate defenders increasingly being targeted and suppressed by Australian governments.Global Warning: the threat to climate defenders in Australia maps the systematic repression of communities and organisations advocating for climate justice in the wake of government inaction. The report, by the Human Rights Law…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
November 25, 2021
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Impacts, Great Barrier Reef

Morrison government ‘pressured independent agency to rush key report on Great Barrier Reef and leaked findings’

SYDNEY, Sept 2 2021 – When the World Heritage Committee recommended the Great Barrier Reef be declared “in danger” due to climate change, the Morrison Government did nothing to safeguard the ecosystem and instead pressured an independent agency to rush a key scientific report and leak selected findings to help its lobbying efforts, documents obtained…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
September 1, 2021
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Safeguard our oceans, Fossil Fuels, Global Oceans Treaty, Great Australian Bight, Victoria

Santos Bights the dust

SYDNEY, 16 July, 2021 – Santos and Murphy Oil have today announced they will abandon plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, in what Greenpeace is calling a momentous win for people and planet. Drone footage of Bunda Cliffs in the Great Australian Bight. The Bight is a pristine stretch of ocean…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
July 16, 2021
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Great Australian Bight, Safeguard our oceans, Fossil Fuels, Climate Impacts, Deep Sea Mining, Great Barrier Reef, NSW, Victoria, Podcasts

Heaps Better Episode 1: How can we be better planet savers?

How can we start saving the planet – right here, right now? And how do we even figure out what to focus on? We’ve found experts and activists who can tell us what works best, and put your questions to them. We begin to make sense of this climate mess with help from climate scientist Sarah…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
March 5, 2021
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Safeguard our oceans, Climate Justice, Deep Sea Mining

REPORT: Deep Trouble

The murky world of the deep sea mining industry.

Greenpeace Australia Pacific
December 1, 2020