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 the use of coal and gas because climate change is creating too many disasters and they will only get worse if we don’t stop carbon emissions.
Build wind farms & hydro electricity
Why are we as tax payers proping up billion dollar energy companies with public money.it needs to stop!
Time to stop funding new coal & especially Gas. Gas cartels have hijacked our gas supplies, causing domestic unaffordable gas for Aussie households & businesses for exports at prices lower than we pay. All the while paying little or no taxes, very minimal royalties & on top Aussie tax payers subsidise the continues raping our country, risking our water, fuelling floods & bushfires. JUST STOP HANDOUTS & get on with OUR FUTURE in CLEAN ENERGY.
The environment, the living animals, birds insects humans are worth saving from excess carbon and pollution. The greed of these companies is what causes this continued mining.
This is a vast amount of public money that is desperately needed to heal our damaged people and environment. If the oil companies believe in capitalism, then let them compete without public funding.
We need to transition to renewables, we can’t afford to allow an increase in climate change, it is already causing to many problems and sources extinctions
I want Australia to stop coal and gas because we have the technology to replace them with less dangerous options and we will get more and more clever once we have no choice but to get cleverer.
I want a sustainable future for my children. Simple!
Climate change is here and getting worse, we need to make the switch from fossil fuels now and help those industries transition asap!