Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Yesterday, our campaign team hand delivered the 440K+ names of Greenpeace Australia Pacific supporters urging Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to protect Western Australia's wildlife by saying NO to Woodside’s Burrup Hub. 🙅♀️🚫 The 5th largest petition ever presented in Parliament House. The petition was presented in a bespoke glass bottle commissioned by Canberra local artist Lisa Cahill and handed to the Environment Minister, before being officially tabled in Parliament later tonight by Minister Kate Chaney MP and Senator David Pocock. A huge thank you to everyone who signed their name to this petition, and helped to send a strong message that Australians and people across the Pacific want to see our precious endangered species protected over new dirty fossil fuel developments. 🐋💙 #StopWoodsidesDrill

Setting sail into 2025 (literally!) 🌈🕊️ Earlier this month, our crew gathered on Gadigal land (Sydney) to facilitate a number of important planning and workshopping sessions at our beloved shared working space, Rainbow Warrior House, as well as onboard our new campaigning vessel, Oceania. As an organisation, these in-person sessions are an important aspect of: ✅ Welcoming and inducting new staff into how Greenpeace Australia Pacific makes change in the world ✅ Aligning our 2025 strategic and engagement plans and goal setting ✅ Spending time connecting together in nature ✅ And of course reflecting and celebrating our (many!) shared achievements in 2024 A huge thank you to all of our crew for helping to deliver another 12 months of highly impactful climate and environmental campaigning across the Australia Pacific region. And together, as we continue to work towards another year of resilience, passion, and dedication in 2025, we take with us our shared promise: We will overcome the vested interests of the fossil fuel corporations and other destroyers of nature; we will ultimately secure an earth capable of nurturing life in all of its magnificent diversity. 💚

✨ Global Moments of the Month ✨⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ This past month we've seen powerful calls for climate action across the globe. ⁣ ⁣ From Shell backing down in their multi-million dollar lawsuit, to activists across South Korea, Hungary, Germany, and the Netherlands taking a stance for a greener and more peaceful world, people power prevails. 🌱🌏⁣ ⁣⁣ 👉 Swipe to see some of our favourite Greenpeace moments.

Earlier this week, during the first 48 hours of Woodside’s North West Shelf (NWS) appeal process decision, our crew hand-delivered hundreds of postcards written by ocean lovers across the country straight to Tanya Plibersek’s office on Gadigal land (Sydney). 📬 The messages detail why hundreds of Aussies are currently calling on the Environment Minister to reject Woodside’s Burrup Hub project and save Scott Reef. 🪸🐠 #ICYMI Last week the Government of Western Australia approved the North West Shelf gas processing plant at Karratha - a key component of Woodside’s Burrup Hub. The Federal Environment Minister now has a 30-business-day window to reject the decision. We know that Scott Reef is teeming with life. We know that it’s a feeding ground for endangered pygmy blue whales and green sea turtles that travel thousands of kilometres to nest. We also know that the WA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned Woodside’s plan to drill for gas near Scott Reef is an ‘unacceptable’ risk, highlighting that the project posed “threats of serious or irreversible damage.” And we now need to make sure Minister Plibersek acts upon that warning. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gbvMvMEs

The second edition of my new monthly newsletter ‘With Love,’ is now out. Titled ‘Hello and Goodbye’, this month’s letter is a dedication to a dear colleague Terry O'Donnell, who recently left Greenpeace Australia Pacific after 25 years of service. Terry most recently served as our Chief Operating Officer for the last nine years, and I have never known a GPAP without him. I’m grateful to have this opportunity to thank Terry for all the love, hope and dedication he has poured into Greenpeace for the last quarter of a century; and to share what is perhaps the biggest lesson I have learned from working with Terry: that in a movement like ours, there are many, many ways to be a part of things, and each and every one of them is so precious. In this letter, I have also responded to a supporter’s question about saving a centenarian tree from the chainsaws of developers. Have a read, consider subscribing, and would love to hear what you think. 💚https://lnkd.in/gteb-jAj

📣 The right to peaceful assembly is foundational to democracy and justice. A new study published earlier this month by researchers at the University of Bristol has revealed that more than 20% of all climate and environmental protests in Australia involve arrests. ...More than three times the global average of 6.3%. 🌏🫠 👉 https://lnkd.in/gkhYaVuT The study follows our major collaborative report released back in 2021 with our friends at the Environmental Defenders Office and Human Rights Law Centre, documenting: ✅ The importance of climate activism in Australia ✅ The systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country ✅ And the unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving it 👉 https://lnkd.in/gjAdvHtV. We’ve known for more than 50 years that activism is the heartbeat of environmental change. And peaceful protest is a fundamental democratic right that we will never stop fighting for. 🌈🕊️

#makepolluterspay #COP29

On the last day of the #ClimateICJAO hearings, the ICJ heard a powerful speech from Vishal Prasad, our director, who called on the judges to act as wayfinders to direct the world towards a future that will protect homes, uphold human rights and preserve dignity 🌏⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Throughout 2024, Greenpeace Australia Pacific ramped up our global oceans campaigning by joining the fight to protect our common heritage on the high seas. And last month our crew headed to Lord Howe Island (a jewel in the crown of underwater plateau Lord Howe Rise and border of the South Tasman Sea) to document the Galapagos shark, green turtle, sooty terns, and the other unique birds, fish, corals, and wildlife that call this biodiversity hotspot home. The South Tasman Sea and Lord Howe Rise are two linked sites in the South Pacific between Australia and Aotearoa’s exclusive economic zones, forming one of Greenpeace’s priority areas for the first high seas ocean sanctuaries under the new Global Ocean Treaty. We were joined by Amber Bourke, a local freediver who currently holds the title of 'deepest woman in Australia', to help capture, share, and raise awareness of the historic opportunity we currently have to protect 30% of the high seas by 2030. We will continue to use the critical footage we captured to build a strong case for the Australian Government to ratify the Global Oceans Treaty by mid-2025, and champion the establishment of more marine sanctuaries in places like the Tasman Sea to provide greater international protection from ongoing human-driven damage including bottom trawling, plastic pollution, and climate change. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gxSPQT9G

Earlier this week, our crew joined a coalition of workers and environmental organisations across Western Australia to release a joint statement, calling on the WA Government to fast-track a suite of changes to bolster the home-grown green energy industry. The statement, co-authored by our friends at Conservation Council of WA, Maritime Union of Australia, Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Electrical Trades Union of Australia, and UnionsWA, highlights priorities the government must take to position Western Australia as a green energy powerhouse, including: ✅ $15 Billion Next Generation Economy Fund ✅ Renewable Energy Target and Infrastructure Planning ✅ And WA Household Battery Scheme We know WA’s abundance of solar and wind means it COULD lead the global transition to green industries such as green iron, green ammonia, and renewable energy. ...We also know this is an incredible opportunity for the WA government to create thousands of jobs, reduce carbon emissions, and drive billions of dollars in export income. Read the full statement 👉 https://lnkd.in/gT9p6k2q