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Stop Climate Change
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing NSW. The Greens are committed to solutions that reduce greenhouse emissions to safe levels and create a strong jobs-rich economy.
Human activities like driving motor cars and burning coal to produce electricity are threatening our health, food supply and security. Greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate in ways that will:
massively increase the severity and frequency of droughts, storms, floods and life-threatening heat waves,
raise the sea level and increase flooding and inundation,
spread insect-borne diseases, and
threaten the security of the food supply.
The good news is that alternatives do exist and, with a bit of common sense, can rescue the future and create lots of quality jobs and a very healthy economy.
With small advances on current technologies like wind, bio-electricity and energy efficiency, NSW can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels without running up huge energy bills. In fact, if we do it the right way, more resources will be available for improving important social services like public education and health.
The real debate is how to get there. The major parties are pushing the myths that coal power can be clean and that nuclear energy can be safe. Both are dangerous distractions. They are risky, dangerous, expensive and limited.
The Greens believe that the real answers lie with breaking NSW’s addiction to coal and becoming world leaders in renewable energy, energy efficiency and public transport.
This is the year of climate change election. The Greens will be campaigning for:
no new coal:
We oppose the development of new coal mines, handling facilities and power stations, and the expansion of existing mines and power station.
Click here for more information.rejecting “safe nuclear power” and “clean coal”:
They are to expensive, technically and economically risky, dangerous, limited ability to reduce emissions and will take too long to implement.
Click here for more information.creating quality jobs in NSW:
With the right policies, NSW can secure tens of thousands of new manufacturing, maintenance and operations jobs in renewable energy and public transport. We support just transitions funding for communities affected by the run down of coal mining activities as existing mines play out.
Click here for more information.real carbon pricing, not permits to pollute:
We will work for cooperation between the states to impose polluter-pays onto power stations, heavy industry and transport.
targets with teeth:
We support staged targets for the immediate and longer term future, with penalties and mandatory remedial actions where targets not achieved.
Click here for more information.a sustainable electricity industry:
We are working for changes to the structure and incentives of the NSW energy industry to deliver reductions in greenhouse emissions by working with consumers to maximise efficiency. NSW needs smart metering and accurate price signals to stem energy waste.
Multimedia
Watch John Kaye's Youtube video 'phasing out coal'.
For more information:
The Greens NSW Climate Change and Energy policy:
The Greens NSW Transport policy
The Greens NSW Coal policy
NSW Coal Communities Campaign. Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has been working with communities around NSW who are campaigning against the mining giants. Click here
Stop Anvil Hill. Anvil Hill is the site of a proposed open cut mine owned by Centennial Coal. If it goes ahead, it will be responsible for more global warming than the greenhouse gas emissions from all the vehicles in NSW. Learn more from Lee Rhiannon's web site, the Anvil Hill Alliance or Rising Tide Australia.
The campaign to stop the proposed Anvil Hill open cut coal mine will be a key state election issue in March. The Anvil Hill alliance have set up a cyberaction so you can write to your local member and express your concern about the proposed mine's contribution to dangerous climate change if it gets the go-ahead. Go to: http://anvilhill.org.au/letter_writing_guide.php
Jobs and the environment. The Greens are determined to defeat the myth that saving the environment will cost jobs. Read the proceedings of our 2004 Jobs and Environment forum.
Greenpeace Australia
Check out Greenpeace's climate change and clean energy campaign.
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