Since the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires, our governments have spent over $40 billion in public money supporting the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry through subsidies and tax breaks.
Every minute, over governments hand over $21,143 to the fossil fuel industry.
It's time our governments stopped handing our public money to the industries most responsible for climate change and stopped approving new coal and gas projects. It's time to invest in a safe climate.
Sign the petition urging the Australian government to stop all subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels and end new climate-heating coal and gas projects and infrastructure in Australia.
Petition demands
"To the Prime Minister, Energy Minister, Environment Minister and Treasurer:
End coal and gas in Australia to ramp up climate action. That means:
- This decade, replacing existing coal, gas and uranium exports with a renewable-powered exports industry and climate-positive careers for communities
- No new coal and gas projects or infrastructure
- Stop spending public money on the fossil fuel industry – fund climate solutions instead."
A responsible government would use our public money to make our communities and wildlife thrive, not fund the industries damaging our climate. The Albanese Government has already taken some steps to advance climate ambition in Australia, but to truly slash climate pollution it must immediately end public funding for fossil fuels.
In the 2022-23 financial year, government subsidies for fossil fuels cost Australians $11.1 billion.
If we stop spending public money on fossil fuels now, we can help prevent even more damaging projects in the future. Currently, Australia has 114 new coal and gas projects, like Woodside's Scarborough project, in the pipeline and if the projects were to go ahead they would almost double our current domestic emissions. And that’s not including any emissions from exporting the coal and gas overseas!
For a safe climate future, let’s instead invest our public money into renewable exports that can replace coal and gas, slash pollution and create climate-positive jobs that future-proof our economy.
Sign the petition and call on our government to step up for climate action.
Latest Supporters
It’s terrible that we are still relying on it
There needs to be an agreed (but assertive) plan to phase out fossil fuels production and export that is strongly coupled into a commensurate plan to grow, use and export benign energy sources.
Both are destructive of the land or seabed that they affect and their emissions add to our already too high carbon emissions. They pollute rivers, and the lands where they take place and leave a complete mess and toxic minerals etc after the mine stops producing
More coal and gas is killing the planet’s climate systems.
Our children, the animals, and plants of earth deserve a future. There is no future in coal and gas.
Our natural habitat and unique wildlife are rapidly becoming extinct. Stop the big companies annihilating our beautiful country for profit. Switch to renewables fast.
This is catastrophic for the environment.
Stop supporting fossil fuel and tax them more
too many people , the earth is being … has been destroyed
We need to protect our fragile oceans and the diverse creatures that dwell in. What is the point in creating no go fishing zones and trying to stop whaling and trying to save the reefs and corals. You always let the big businesses have their way, but what about the real people who actually want to preserve what we have left
I want Australia to stop coal and gas mining to help reduce the effects of global warming
I want these fuels
left in the ground
Just use what we already have. There will ne so many stranded assets and half developed coal and has pock marks that will then need to be stabilised and made safe / productive again.
It has to stay in the ground if we are to save the reefs, the forests, the Alps, Antarctica……