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
We haven’t got the luxury of time to NOT DO THIS. Coal and gas are killing us
There are other smarter & better ways to create sustainable fuel
We are contributing to climate change, which is proving disastrous.
Stop mining and using coal and gas. Saul Griffith has told you how so stop cow-towering to the mining industry.
I want Australia to end coal and gas because we can and should. It’s a no-brainer.
Coal and gas subsidies must end and be redirected to climate solutions, environmental restoration and addressing inequalities in public housing, health and education
I want Australia to get out of the coal and gas industry ASAP. No more subsidies to them except to speed them out of service!!! Eg re-employing the workers in renewable energy and environmental repair work. Invest in a State owned renewable energy industry that can employ these workers exiting from the fossil fuel industry.
Please make that change immediately because already our children are going to pay an enormous price and wildlife and eco systems are going extinct.
Why subsidize products that kill the world
We need to cease coal & gas exploration now, and phase out production to ensure we have a liveable world for our kids & their kids. Climate change has already impacted our lives greatly. Let’s not make it worse as we know what must be done. Act now!
We must walk away from gas and coal and focus all our energy on clean solutions- there is no other choice.
I want my children to have a future
I want Australia to end coal and gas to ensure we stay below the dangerous global heating threshold of 1.5degrees.
If we don’t stop fossil fuels we won’t.
We can’t cut emissions if we keep creating more emissions. If we do create new emissions we will LOSE OUR ABILITY TO AVOID CLIMATE CATASTROPHE.
If we want to ensure the survival of our descendants then we must say no to fossil fuels.
We’re years behind where we could have been in terms of climate action, because of government inaction. We could have acted years ago, but the next best time to act is now!