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 using gas and coal so that my children and grandchildren will have a habitable planet to live on. Why would anyone seriously want to self-destruct?
I want Australia to end developing new coal mines and continuing use of all fossil fuels that are a major item contributing to global warming.
Stop giving subsidies to organisations that produce this antiquated and disastrous fuel.
We need to be at the forefront of positive change. The world is watching the developed world, because we have profited from fossil fuel export, emissions, deforestation and animal agriculture.
Stop mining for fossil fuel and protect the environment AND stop using taxpayers funds to support these damaging industries.
Subsidies for fossil fuels make no sense whatsoever, especially when we have t beg companies to sell fossil fuels extracted in Australia to Australians at a reasonable price. Not only stop subsidising them but start taxing them on the extraodinary profits that they are making by exploiting the heritage of all Australians.
If you have to stick with the tax cuts promise, then cutting back of fossil fuel handouts would be good place to recoup some budget
I want Australia to end public money for fossil fuels because it exacerbates climate pollution and could be better spent on funding climate solutions instead.
Australia needs to end reliance on gas and coal to stop the pollution they cause.
Also stop mining and producing the stuff to sell overseas.This just pollutes other countries.
I want fossil guel subsidies to end as we are effectively paying for greenhouse gas emissions that will cause dangerous climate change. Australia is already seeing the cost of climate change so these subsidies must end.
We have to enddependence of fossile fuesl be cause we are already on the brink of cascading system collapse rendering our planet uninhabitable.