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Greenpeace Australia Pacific s charitable purpose is to protect, preserve and enhance the natural environment, and its mission is to secure the ability of the earth to nurture and sustain life in all of its magnificent diversity. Specifically the Company seeks to keep climate change below 1.5 degrees by the end of this century and to secure conditions for biodiversity to flourish. The Company works on the most urgent environmental issues of our time, with priorities including climate change, the depletion of marine and terrestrial wildlife, and threats to iconic regions including the Pilbara coast and islands across the Pacific. The Company s primary goals as stated in its 2024-2026 Strategic Plan are to drive change such that: Australia steps up as leader on climate and nature protection; and Pacific power to drive global change is supercharged. The charity believes these goals will enable climate action at the necessary speed and scale and will contribute towards keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees and protecting biodiversity.
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Name: Optimise and build power in the Pacific to compel action on the climate crisis
URL: https://www.greenpeace.org.au/
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Adults - aged 25 to under 65
- Adults - aged 65 and over
- Children - aged 6 to under 15
- Early childhood - aged under 6
- Environment
- Families
- Overseas communities or charities
- People from a culturally and linguistically diverse background (or people from a CALD background)
- People in rural/regional/remote communities
- Victims of disasters
- Youth - 15 to under 25
Name: Prevent the environmentally destructive expansion of gas extraction
URL: https://www.greenpeace.org.au/
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Environment
Name: Transform Australia's transport system by shifting from internal combustion engines to cleaner EV's
URL: https://www.greenpeace.org.au/
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Adults - aged 25 to under 65
- Adults - aged 65 and over
- Environment
- Families
Name: Significantly increase national climate ambition and funding and accelerate solutions, esp in WA
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Adults - aged 25 to under 65
- Adults - aged 65 and over
- Children - aged 6 to under 15
- Early childhood - aged under 6
- Environment
- Families
- People in rural/regional/remote communities
- Youth - 15 to under 25
Name: End deforestation in Australia from agriculture and logging by 2026
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Animals
- Children - aged 6 to under 15
- Early childhood - aged under 6
- Environment
- Families
- General community in Australia
- Youth - 15 to under 25
Name: Protect our oceans incl a ban on deep sea mining and implenting global oceans and plastics treaties
Classification: Climate change (Environment > Climate change)
Beneficiaries:- Environment
- General community in Australia
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