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
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.
Fossil fuel community has not accepted that climate change is occurring, with plenty of support from the Liberal opposition to maintain some sort of status quo. Labour must speak with actions to end these subsidies.
I want Australia to end spending public money on fossil fuel as it’s not sustainable and the evidence is right in front of us. Let’s us not be blind anymore and please invest in clean energy. There are plenty of scientific evidence to prove we have more than sufficient clean energy available and it’s sustainably cheaper.
Many thanks
I want the Australian government to stop subsidising coal and gas industries because its so unfair. They are wealthy and should be able to run a business without subsidies. What about all the other industries in Australia? Why them? And we have to stop subsidising them to save our civilisation and endangered species from climate change.
I want Australia to end the funding of Coal and gas industries as both first aid to reach a point where we can reverse the output of Carbon and Methane
and as an act of hope that gives our young people a future. Together we can with nature restore nature!
Please put the subsidies to better use and tax these profits more.