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
Please stop these obscene subsidies to the companies that are causing our climate change.
Regards,
Walter
Why are we propping up the gas and coal
Industry? It’s pretty obvious it’s because they are propping up the major parties. Labor should see where this got the Liberals and take note that the general population does not have any wool pulled over their eyes- we see what is happening and we want the government to represent OUR interests not fossil fuel industry. Get with the times. Nature and the future of our world is at risk from terrible government decisions that do not represent the best interests of people or the planet.
We can no longer use the drug dealer excuse, “they would have got it from someone else”.
Leave it in the ground!
We must end the subsidies of the coal and gas sectors as they are driving Climate change which is leading us all to an existential crisis for our eii our Rod.
We need to cease all funding and support for all gas oil and coal projects .
We need to tax all exports of these products to fund renewable energy projects in this country.
We all need a future. Please stop being so despicably irresponsible. We depend on you for leadership and to actually act on what you claim to stand for. Stop giving money to the insanely profitable coal and gas companies.
There are no jobs on a dead planet.
I want our state and federal governments to stop handing out bucket loads of public money to the polluting coal and gas industries, which are fuelling climate impacts like more extreme floods, fires and droughts.
Australia needs to mature and become a responsible member of the planet, for its people and its habitat as well as all nations that inhabit it.