great barrier reef
Posted by sebastianbock — 11 August 2015 at 5:52pm
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What a week! Writing this feels a bit like a deja-vu. Why? Because that’s exactly what we said last week when news broke that Australia’s Federal Court had overturned the approval of one of the world’s biggest coal mining projects. Only to be followed by Australia’s biggest bank calling it quits on the project on the same day.
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Posted by Danielle Boobyer — 18 June 2015 at 2:12pm
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by-nc. Credit: Emily Buchanan
Just a few weeks ago we started this campaign by asking a very simple question: is Standard Chartered helping to find money for one of the planet’s most destructive fossil fuel projects that threatens the Great Barrier Reef? We asked this question in front of Standard Chartered’s shareholders at their AGM in London.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 5 June 2015 at 2:17pm
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Dendronephthya Soft Corals, Acropora Coral and Fairy Basslets. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
It’s World Oceans Day and some of the most stunning underwater photos you'll see are taken in the Great Barrier Reef. The largest living thing on Earth, the Reef stretches over 2,600 kilometers, has over 900 islands and can even be seen from outer space.
Last edited 8 May 2015 at 2:29pm
Amid current concern over falling
profits, Standard Chartered faced further scrutiny over its role in a
controversial Australian coal mining project that threatens the Great Barrier
Reef at its AGM on Wednesday.
Greenpeace is calling for
Standard Chartered to end its relationship with any company involved in
exploiting the coal reserves of Australia’s Galilee Basin, one of the world’s
largest untapped coal reserves. The campaigners say that this would contribute
significantly to climate change and risks destroying the Great Barrier Reef, a
World heritage Area and home to clown fish, turtles and humpback whales.
Posted by Greenpeace UK — 7 May 2015 at 4:56pm
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by. Credit: Clement Tang/Greenpeace
Hong Kong: Greenpeace activists unfurl a stair-riser banner in front of the Standard Chartered’s headquarters
As a contracted advisor to the planned Carmichael mega-mine, UK-based international bank Standard Chartered must be feeling rather exposed at the moment following a Hong Kong protest and then questions from Greenpeace at its annual general meeting in London.
Posted by Willie — 10 February 2015 at 5:02pm
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If I said to you that the UK government was responsible for rare
sea turtles, endangered sharks, tropical coral reefs and quite possibly more penguins
than any other country, you might think I was talking about some aquariums or
zoos. It’s certainly not what you think about in UK seas, especially at this
grey time of year (though of course we do have visiting turtles, many shark
species, cold water corals, and puffins as penguin-wannabes). But across the
world the UK has ‘overseas territories’. They are relics of a turbulent past
when flags were planted across the world, and mostly, these days, they are
islands – like Bermuda, Pitcairn, and Ascension. So, in turn, the amazing
wildlife in the seas around these islands is effectively ‘British’.
Article tagged as: Ascension, Bering Sea Canyons, great barrier reef, marine reserves, Marine Reserves Coalition, ocean lovers, ocean sanctuaries, penguins, PITCAIRN, sharks, turtles, whales
Posted by Willie — 31 March 2014 at 11:10am
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We know climate change is the biggest threat facing our
planet, which is why it is Greenpeace’s priority campaign across the world. Today’s
report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s highlights the
enormous impacts
and consequences climate change is having on our oceans. This must act as a
wake-up call for everyone who depends on, or cares about our oceans and the
vast array of life within them.
These are the most important messages from report - and they mean for our oceans.
Article tagged as: antarctic, arctic, bycatch, climate change, coral, fishing, food security, great barrier reef, IPCC, krill, marine reserves, ocean acidification, ocean sanctuaries, pollution, tuna, whales
Posted by Fran G — 28 June 2012 at 2:07pm
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For a long time organisations like Greenpeace, backed by people like you, have been calling for stronger protection of our oceans.
Last week showed our voices were
heard. The Australian environment minister Tony Burke announced what is
a genuinely significant step forward for ocean
protection, not only for Australia, but in global terms.
Posted by jossc — 2 September 2008 at 12:11pm
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Greenpeace divers protesting against the planned oil shale mine
Australia has stepped back from the brink of madness and decided to shelve plans to mine oil shales right on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef.
Proposals to extract millions of tonnes of oil shales from the Whitsunday Islands threatened to drain precious water supplies, and to risk toxic leaching and air pollution - as well as increasing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
Fortunately, following a strong protest campaign led by the local Save Our Foreshore group, common sense has prevailed and last week Queensland premier Anna Bligh announced a 20-year moratorium, effectively ending the threat for the immediate future.