
Climate & Energy Justice
The mystery of the Australia Defence Force 'carbon bootprint'
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) pledges to ‘defend Australia and its national interests’. However, the Government’s refusal to clearly report military greenhouse gas emissions may result in the ADF unnecessarily contributing to the greatest threat currently facing Australia and the rest of the world - anthropogenic climate change.

Climate & Energy Justice
Gender justice and dismantling patriarchy
Women are disproportionately affected by environmental injustice, climate change, disasters and the exploitation of Nature. This is especially so for women of colour, peasant and indigenous women, LBTQ women and women workers. Despite this, women are not victims. We are fighters. Women are protagonists in the defense of our territories and the fight for autonomy over our bodies, lives and labour force.

Climate & Energy Justice
Climate Justice : we must act together
Our response to the 2019 federal election result.

Climate & Energy Justice
2019: the climate election
The federal election will be held on May 18. With climate change already bearing down on us, a recent decision by the government of Scott Morrison to sign off on Commonwealth approvals for the Adani Carmichael coal mine, and a robust debate about energy and renewables, there is no doubt that this will be the #climateelection.
Elections are a time to remind all parties that they need to deliver solid action on climate change and the environment.
The following are our key policy proposals for the 2019 federal election.

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Blue Pacific’s Call for Urgent Global Climate Change Action
Pacific Islands Forum Statement 15 May 2019.

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The climate change strike: from a student who was there
By Aceda Rose
So here's me (below), amid a crowd of fired up adolescents and children, facing what could be the downfall of everything we've ever known; climate change.

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Friends of the Earth submits legal summons in historic climate case against Shell
The Hague - Friends of the Earth Netherlands will deliver a court summons to Shell to legally compel the company to cease its destruction of the climate, on behalf of more than 30,000 people from 70 countries.

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Waste-carbon injection is a dangerous distraction from climate action
Golden Beach is an idyllic section of Ninety Mile Beach. It boasts a pristine coastline, where whales can be seen from the sand in migrating season. The beaches have plentiful fish, native birds and the skeletal remains of an 1897 shipwreck.

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Star of the South captures imagination in coal rich Latrobe Valley
With Australia’s first offshore wind farm Star of the South capturing the community’s imagination, Friends of the Earth made a trip to the Latrobe Valley last week to get an update about the proposal and hear what people in the region think.

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Friends of the Earth welcomes QBE’s end to coal finance
Friends of the Earth welcomes the announcement by Australia’s largest insurer, QBE, to end its support for the coal industry.