Safe Climate
Imagine a Victoria where the air we breathe is clean and fresh. Where the energy that fuels our lives comes from steady winds and warm sunshine. Transportation for everyone is fast, efficient, and clean. Highly efficient buildings keep emissions incredibly low. Where oxygen-producing vegetation is thick, abundant and sustainable. And our state sets the emissions standard for the rest of the country … and the rest of the world.
Now imagine yourself getting involved in one of the many ongoing campaigns and programs designed to reduce Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions and restore our climate by the year 2020.
The Basics
Each year, our state releases more than 120 million tonnes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which makes Victoria one of the planet’s worst polluters per capita. Sweden has double the population, and half the greenhouse pollution of Victoria.
Nearly half of our total pollution comes from four coal-fired power stations which together emit 58 million tonnes per year.
Over 95 percent of Victoria's electricity currently comes from burning brown coal, which is one of the most polluting ways of generating electricity.
Victoria is Australia's car manufacturing hub. But we still don't have pollution limits for new cars as other states and countries around the world do.
Our solar water heating industry generates $78 million in sales annually and supports 700 jobs, yet only five percent of our households currently use solar water heating.
Victoria currently is home to Australia's only wind manufacturing with a factory in Portland which employs 430 people and supplies towers for wind farms around the country and the world.
But Victorian state laws obstructing windfarm developments prevent us from really taking advantage of this local green manufacturing hub.
Environment Victoria has commissioned research which shows that Victoria could more than halve its greenhouse pollution by 2020.
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Campaigns & Programs
Fossil fuel subsidies are one of the biggest roadblocks on the road to a safer climate. If we want to stop climate change we've got to stop funding it. Right now.
The Victorian Government wants to allocate billions of tonnes of brown coal in the Latrobe Valley to a handful of companies. It's a bad idea. Here's why...
A new report by the One Million Homes Alliance, “2.5 billion reasons to invest in efficiency”, shows that retrofitting one million Victorians’ homes would save $2.5 billion...
Australia’s price on pollutionOn 1 July Australia finally put a price on carbon. Congratulations to the millions of Victorians who’ve stood up for action on climate change...
Today the federal government walked away from negotiations to replace our dirtiest power stations like Hazelwood...
A rolling report-card on the Baillieu Government’s environmental performance...
Coal Watch is an interactive resource for all Victorians who want to know how their resources are being resourced...
No New Coal Power for VictoriaHRL’s new coal-powered station will keep us in the technological dark ages...
A prosperous economy and a safe environment. Green jobs are just good business...
We're travelling towards a safer climate future with our smart transport campaign...
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Latest News
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EPA approves one million tonne increase to Victoria’s carbon pollutionThe EPA has granted a works approval for a new gas processing facility proposed by company ESSO at Longford in Gippsland, in a decision that has shocked environmentalists and local community members.
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National alliance formed to take back $10 billion handouts from big pollutersWe're leading a national campaign of Australia's leading environment groups to end polluter handouts. Check it out
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Massive windfalls to dirtiest power stations from carbon price compensation
Our new report has revealed that brown coal generators are reaping billions in windfall profits from carbon price 'compensation'...
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Victorian government insurance premiums to soar due to climate changeOur FoI challenge has revealed that climate change is already costing Victorians financially
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How the community stopped a coal fired power station - a timelineFind out how good ol' people power stopped HRL's proposed coal fired power station in the Latrobe Valley…
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Dollars not discussed in contracts for closure negotiationsTRUEnergy boss Richard McIndoe dropped a bombshell when he revealed that the Federal Government hadn't even discussed dollars in its shelved contracts for closure program…
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Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said the Latrobe Valley could be transformed into a mining export hub on the scale of the Pilbara or the Hunter Valley…
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Use this seriously fun and easy calculator to work out your costs, compensation and savings you'll make from the carbon price...
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Environment Victoria’s wrap on the Carbon Price PackageGet in the know and download our short snappy 5 pager on the package…
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A controversial scheme to export Victorian brown coal for use in overseas power stations - shelved by the Brumby government in 2009 - has been dusted off…
