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 can’t wait any longer. The writing on the wall has been there for a VERY long time. Not to end this madness is criminal.
I want coal oil and gas not be mined because our lives depend on it!! Our planet depends on this stopping or that’s the end for us all – and our poor Grandchildren will cop the lot. :(
Of the urgent need for action to decrease the damage being done to the planet by fossil fuels
Save our lives and those of the animals
We’re paying to make our Earth unliveable. This is unconscionable madness! It has to stop now!
People are struggling to survive, sleeping rough and you lot hand out $22,000 every minute to polluting coal & gas, no wonder politicians are so despised.
It.s about time you looked after the people in need.
The climate is ready changing for the worse. We know that we need to do, stop burning coal and gas. Now!!!!
I want an immediate end to coal and gas in Australia because my kids and grankids futures depend on it.
I want Australia to stop giving coal and gas companies public money and stop pollution for our climate so my grandchildren will be able to breathe fresh air and water as we won’t be able to use food stamps ON MARS
Coal and gas are not cool for our future and need no subsidy. Alternate employment can be found that sustains our kids future
I care about the future of this planet for my children and myself and my partner
New coal, oil, and gas exploration in Australia is making the climate crisis worse. Please stop this short term grab for profit which will make the target of less than 2 degrees warming impossible
Australia subsidizing the destruction of everybody’s world.