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
Climate change is here and getting worse, we need to make the switch from fossil fuels now and help those industries transition asap!
The money can be better spent on social welfare programs, health and education. If a mega industry can not support itself it should not be running on government money.
I want Australia to end to fossil fuel mining, exporting and using within our own country. We all know that man has created the environmental problems on this planet which, if we do not change our ways, will make the planet uninhabitable
So it is time to make a decision, do we want to face extinction or do we choose to live?
Labor voted in with majority. This gives them a clear mandate to stop propping up the fossil fuel industry
This has to stop. The things we could do with this money are endless, including reducing the fuel excise.
Humans and other species on the planet cannot survive the increases in tempertures due to climate change, nore a lack of clean water. Supporting fossil fool companies just hastens our own extinction and that of other species. It has to stop. Now.
We have alternatives, let’s invest in clean energy rather than continuing down the path to disaster.
It is vital that we eradicate fossilized fuel mining!
It beggars belief in current 2022 climate change action needs that Australia would gift public cash to develop new sources of gas and oil extraction in Australia. Any public funds gifted in relation to climate change action must be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, NOT increase them. What planet are those supporting public funding of actions which increase greenhouse gas emissions living on?
It is lunacy that this government allows burning & bulldozing of native forests. They allow mining, fracking & fossil fuel projects, they allow the commercial killing industry of our iconic kangaroos for pet food, they allow big mining, polluters & environmental vandals to pay no tax whilst destroying what is left of our biodiversity.
We are the biggest landclearers in the world, with the highest extinction rates.
It is truly appalling.
The only political party that I trust is Animal Justice Party.