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
Surely in this day & age it’s time to end our reliance on coal & fossil fuels?
Coal and gas spell disaster for our amazing Australian environment.
We have all the research to prove the damage to our planet that more mining will cause. We have proven viable alternatives. We need to act smarter. You, our government, must act smarter. Act now to save our home.
Because we are destroying this beautiful planet, all creatures including ourselves deserve better from those in power who surely cannot be that lame that you don’t know the cost to all life on this planet. Stop all this greed GIVE something instead of TAKING all the time. The future of our planet is oon your hands, help us to help our world.
We are KILLING OUR PLANET AND KILLING OURSELVES!
Because it is the right thing to do for all things living.stop selling our country out Australian government!!
I wrecks habitat and climate
We are in a climate emergency brought on by fossil fuels. Australia is exacerbating this energency. It needs to start acting responsibly if Australia is to have a future.
We need to end investment in coal and gas in Australia as we have a duty to create a safe environment for the next generation to survive, the time to act is now, Aoife
I want Australia to end coal and gas development and move towards a combination of renewable energy because the planet is warming and we produce to much carbon
New coal and gas projects are a disaster for our climate and nature. Woodside Energy’s massive gas expansion plans in WA alone put THIRTY NINE threatened animals at direct risk.
It’s time our governments stopped approving new climate-wrecking coal and gas projects and instead invest in a safe climate and healthy future for the people, places, and nature we love.
Because we are running out of time to fix our pollution problem that is destroying our planet.
Right now, as I write this, there is a wild fire out of control near here, in late Autumn, in what was once a cool, wet temperate zone…we are currently in the first drought this region has ever had, with accompany fire emergencies and water shortages…and we are now experiencing Forest Collapse as well. We have got to stop our addiction to fossil fuels, and Govt must act. No more subsidies and tax breaks to FF industries.
Reneqables not dirty fossil fuels.
I want the Government to stop this ASAP, it is crazy and not good for our planet
End coal asap and reserve and price cap gas for the funding of the domestic transition to renewables. Stop the climate killing export of both now!
End fossils for our kids!
We need to stop everything in the pathways of the fire destruction in the bushlands outbacks
We are in a climate emergency and scientists and the UN are warning the world to move towards renewables ver quickly now! And no more new fossil fuel projects!
We must limit coal and gas export for our childrens sake. we can also assist polluting countries to reduce their emissions as well
I am signing because climate change is accelerating and it is now very urgent that we switch from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy to avoid catastrophic results for our species.