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
I want Australia to end coal and gas and move onto renewables using our natural resources and lead the way in the work in solar winds bd hydro power.
We have the resources to do this
We need our government to lead this and show the world how it’s done
We need to move away from fossil fuels
Please end supporting new oil and gas projects and seriously prepare for a safer future for our grandchildren
I want Australia to stop coal and gas production because of the damage fossil fuels has done to our planet. If we don’t stop now, we won’t have a planet worth living on.
I’m well and truly into my twilight years now and I’ve seen how damage to the ozone layer has impacted on countries all around the world.
I recall Al Gore’s heartfelt plea, in his incredible documentary An Inconvenient Truth, that we needed to move away from fossil fuels and all forms of retrieval of those fuels and the untold harm they were doing to our beautiful Earth.
Anyone who watched that documentary could not help being moved to advocating for greener, more sustainable, forms of power production. I was young then.
Why has it taken so many years for the world to start waking up to the damage we’ve done and continue to do.
Please…please…do the right thing by our country and for the world. We may be a big island continent with a small population but we are mighty!
What we are seen to be doing matters…
not only to our own people…to all peoples everywhere…especially our neighbours in the Pacific region.
Sincerely,
Joan Brimson
Don’t you realise it’s now or never! 😡. This IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!
It is a destructive and dying industry and we need to focus our energy towards a cleaner future. The sooner the government realizes this the better for us all.
It’s Time! Time to stop subsidising these pollutive industries that wreck our environment.
Look its a no brainer, we need to stop corporations from destroying our planet, come to Lismore and look at the face of Australia’s climate refugees. Stop giving our money public money to big polluters now
We have the technology to stop using coal and gas and it will cost a lot less than having floods and fires every year! Stop propping up the fossil fuel industry NOW!
Our planet is in crisis . We need to use renewables and stop allowing the gas and coal industry to drive the direction of our energy choices . They are all about money and Liberal and Labor take money from them in return for keeping the industry dragging on .
We need renewable energy as soon as possible.
the replacement of fossil fuels with clean renewable energy is the only way our planet will survive
the fracking, coal mining, is causing irreparable damage to our water courses, biodiversity, cultural heritage and the air we all need to survive.
don’t wait till it’s too late
It’s time to make the shift away from fossil fuels.
We need cleaner energy not to subsidize big companies. Why is the cost of electricity so high with these handouts