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Woodside’s Pluto 2 LNG Train Can Still Come Off The Rails
Woodside has broken ground on a second LNG train at its Pluto gas processing facility on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia but the company’s plans are far from on track, with Woodside facing two legal challenges and still lacking crucial environmental approvals, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. Pluto Train 2 will be the second train…
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Five-Yearly Report Reveals Australia’s Environment ‘Crumbling Rapidly’ And Lays Down Marker For Radical Action
The poor and rapidly deteriorating health of Australia’s environment outlined in the five-yearly State of the Environment report lays down a marker for radical and urgent action to change the course and save our precious environment and way of life, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. The report - which was completed in December but delayed under…
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Labor’s $194M For The Reef Welcome Sea-Change, But Greater Ambition To Reduce Emissions Crucial
Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s commitment of $194 million to tackle climate impacts on the Great Barrier Reef has been welcomed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific as important recognition of the damage climate change is wreaking on our fragile marine environment, but must be accompanied by an urgent commitment to emissions reduction. Labor has announced an additional…
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Dire Coral Bleaching Figures Show How Morrison Government Has Failed The Great Barrier Reef
Damage to more than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef during the most recent mass bleaching event is another damning indictment of the Morrison Government, which has failed to protect the Reef and exacerbated the problem through its support of fossil fuels, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The alarming findings were revealed in the Great…
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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…
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Environment Department shrouds UNESCO mission to Reef in secrecy, keeps agenda under tight control
BRISBANE, March 22 2022 – With the Great Barrier Reef undergoing a severe and widespread coral bleaching event it is vital that a UN mission currently in Australia to survey the Reef’s health is allowed to see the climate damage to the Reef firsthand, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.A UNESCO reactive monitoring mission is currently in…
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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…
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IPCC REPORT: AUSTRALIA UNPREPARED FOR CLIMATE IMPACTS AHEAD
Sydney, 28 February 2022: The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a grim and frightening picture of the serious climate impacts that face Australia and the Pacific, which Greenpeace Australia Pacific says must spur much deeper, faster emissions reduction.The report focuses on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, laying out…
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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…
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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…