✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels
Australia Institute research shows fossil fuels are the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – but the government is letting them off the hook.
Despite the urgency of the climate crisis, new gas and coal projects keep being approved. The massive Hunter Valley Operations coal mine was extended for another 20 years. And the government approved the North West Shelf gas export terminal extension, which will have the same climate impact as adding 12 new coal-fired power stations.
The government is using creative accounting, dodgy offsets and false solutions to make emissions reductions look better than they really are – while approving multinational coal and gas exporters to expand their operations and fuel the climate crisis.
Australia’s climate policies are designed to expand fossil fuel projects, and carbon offsets are central to this.
Meanwhile, taxpayers are footing the bill. Last year alone, fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians $15 billion.
Australia cannot reduce its emissions while subsidising the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
The government is supposed to represent us, not the fossil fuel industry.
Add your name to demand a fossil fuel phase out now!
To the Australian Government,
The fossil fuel industry is the biggest source of our emissions. I urge you to take stronger action, by:
- Scrapping subsidies for the fossil fuel industry;
- Stopping fossil fuel approvals;
- Phasing out existing fossil fuel projects, and;
- Ending the use of risky carbon offsets and other government greenwash.