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 need a livable planet and moving away from fossil fuel usage is mandatory if we want the earth similar to what we have now.
CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!! Should all be renewable energy.
I want Australia to stop subsidising the fossil fuel industries or slowing them to explore for more. Use the money instead to build infrastructure to support renewables.
We are past critical in the fight to save our planet (home) from irreversible environmental damage. The wake up call has long passed. Our actions now must be radical if we are to avert indelible catastrophic consequences of human habit-ation on our home. Our reliance on fossil fuels has polluted our environment. The air we breathe and the water we drink are fragile and essential to life. There comes a point of no return. Please, please think of the planet when you make this decision.
Stop fossil fuels subsidies
I want australia to end coal and gas because it is our only way forward to avert the worst of limited crises.
Climate change is becoming worse and worse. Subsiding coal and gas contributes to make it much worse. It is time to end all this madness and to think about protecting our environment.
Please stop subsidies and tax breaks to coal and Gas companies. They should stand on their own two feet given the superprofits the are already making and the externalities they create that are killing our kids.
This is disgraceful and must stop now
The IPCC Climate Change reports did not contain vital modelling of ice melt and their effects on currents. Dr Jason Box who’s articles are in both reports says due to the time lag of gathering data and getting peer reviewed work to print vital up to date data is not included. This leaves the dire warnings of the reports even more disturbing.
No matter how important water level rise is Australia’s Eucalyptus forests will die before ice melt impinges on coastal Australia. The fine balance between the rigurs of nutrient depleted soils and the wide spectrum of temperatures that Eucalyptus species endure are impacted dynamically by climate temperature rise. The extreme weather events multiplies the temperatures on either end of the scale creating instability and stress undermining the habitat and vital eco systems of whole forests. Climate scientists have forecast 70 to 100 years there will be no Eucalyptus forests in Australia. With the aforementioned time lag between data gathering reporting and acknowledgement of analysis our forests their native habit eco systems have less time than the 70 years. So please at the very least stop all new oil and coal leases in Australia.