Fifty civil society groups call on EFA to rule out financing Papua LNG
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Release Date: 13 Dec 2023
In the wake of Australia signing the CETP at COP28, a group of fifty civil society groups have issued an open letter to Export Finance Australia calling on it rule out financing the proposed Papua LNG project.
COP28: Australia finally signs on to the Clean Energy Transition Partnership, a first step to phasing out fossil fuels
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Aid and development
Release Date: 05 Dec 2023
Breaking news from COP28 in Dubai as the Australian government commits to the Clean Energy Transition Partnership.
Pacific leaders urge Australia to stop financing fossil fuels through foreign aid and export finance
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Release Date: 04 Dec 2023
As the world heads to Dubai for COP28 a group of Pacific climate leaders have issued a joint statement to the Australian government, urging them to take the opportunity to sign onto the Clean Energy Transition Partnership.
Project Sepik and Jubilee Australia Welcome Findings from Human Rights Body on the Freida River Mine
Release Date: 06 Oct 2023
Communities from Papua New Guinea’s Sepik region have today welcomed the findings of an Australian human rights body, which will pave the way for them to have a say on a giant copper and gold mine proposed to be built on their doorstep.
Jubilee Australia Supports ‘Yes’
Release Date: 25 Sep 2023
Jubilee Australia supports the movement to say ‘Yes’ in the upcoming referendum on the Voice on 14 October.
Forest Clearing Authorities used as a front for illegal logging: new report
Release Date: 06 Sep 2023
Forest Clearing Authorities are being unlawfully used to facilitate large-scale logging operations by foreign-owned logging companies according to a new report published today by ACT NOW!, in collaboration with Jubilee Australia Research Centre. The new report focuses on the Wammy logging operation in West Sepik Province.
New Australian aid agenda prioritising climate action welcome but risks being undermined by government financing to overseas fossil fuels
Release Date: 09 Aug 2023
With the release of the government's International Development Policy we are seeing increased focus on climate change and gender equality. However the government risks compromising this valuable work with its continued financing of fossil fuels via Australia's foreign aid program.
Minister Bowen calls for MDB financing to align with Paris targets, yet the government can take action to make this a reality.
Release Date: 30 Jun 2023
MDBs cannot achieve a pathway to net zero if their shareholders in governments don’t take action to implement this change. Jubilee Australia and ActionAid Australia have identified the three key steps Australia must take to align government action with Minister Bowen’s vision.
Climate and Environment Response to Federal Government's Critical Minerals Strategy
Release Date: 29 Jun 2023
Civil society groups from the climate and environment movement have come together in a joint response to welcome the government's Critical Minerals Strategy - though serious regulation of transition mineral mining is required to ensure the least amount of damage is done to the environment and communities.
“Elephant in the room” – government’s Critical Minerals Strategy a first step, but falls short of addressing demand projections at the heart of the issue
Release Date: 22 Jun 2023
Jubilee Australia Research Centre has responded to the federal government’s Critical Minerals Strategy 2023 – 2030. Jubilee Australia Research Centre advocates for evidence-based policy and improvements across Australia’s transition minerals policy landscape.
Environment and aid groups call on the Australian government to sign the Glasgow Statement
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Release Date: 01 Jun 2023
More than twenty environment, aid and development groups have come together to call on the Australian Government to sign the Glasgow Statement, ending public financing of fossil fuel exports and redirecting that financing to renewable energy.
PNG and Australian lenders providing millions to companies involved in destructive rainforest logging
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Land and forests,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 10 May 2023
In the last eight years, two finance companies and one equipment retailer have provided financing to at least 15 companies that are logging in PNG’s rainforests, new research by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia reveals. These loans are likely to have helped companies buy the bulldozers and trucks used to destroy millions of hectares of tropical rainforest.
Australia risks over-extracting transition minerals amid mining rush
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Mining,
Climate Justice
Release Date: 04 May 2023
Australia is at risk of over-extracting key transition minerals by relying on overblown demand projections, according to a new report which warns policy steps to encourage responsible and sustainable use of critical minerals, such as a stronger commitment to recycling EV batteries, are being overlooked.
PNG can improve energy access and reduce carbon emissions simultaneously
Release Date: 25 Jan 2023
PNG can both improve energy access while also meeting its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector, a new report by Papua New Guinean environmental group Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) and the Sydney-based Jubilee Australia Research Centre has found.
Defend the Tiwi voice
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Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 19 Dec 2022
Earlier this year, Tiwi Island Munupi Clan Elder Dennis Tipaklippa took Santos’ Barossa offshore gas project to Court and won, because even though Dennis and his Clan are the most impacted by planned offshore drilling activities, Santos did not consult them at all.
Alarm at reports Australian Government considering spending public money on Santos LNG project
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EFA
Release Date: 12 Dec 2022
Environment groups have written an open letter to the federal Trade Minister Don Farrell, calling on him to stop public spending on fossil fuels, after it was reported by Reuters last week that the Australian Government was considering giving a loan to the PNG Government to acquire a billion dollar stake in a Santos LNG project.
Australia’s Pacific financing plan not fit for purpose
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Aid and development,
Sustainable economies
Release Date: 28 Nov 2022
Australia’s $4 billion program to fund new infrastructure in the Pacific lacks transparency, is failing to support the region's greatest needs such as climate adaptation/loss and damage and poverty alleviation, and risks driving extractive development in the region, according to a new report by environmental and human rights organisation Jubilee Australia Research Centre.
Say no to Wafi-Golpu DSTP
Release Date: 15 Sep 2022
Following the deadly earthquake on Sunday 11 September 2022 measuring a magnitude of 7.6, with the epicenter in Morobe Province, a coalition of PNG and Australian civil society organisations are calling for all levels of government to pause all moves to progress the Wafi-Golpu mine project until this geological phenomenon is fully understood, and until communities of Morobe Province have been adequately consulted, including being made aware of the risks of DSTP to their communities, livelihoods and health.
Australian government body accepts PNG community’s complaint over Frieda River Mine
Release Date: 26 Jul 2022
The Australian National Contact Point (AusNCP) for an international standard on responsible business conduct has agreed to investigate a complaint lodged on behalf of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea who say they have not given consent for Pan Aust to build an enormous copper and gold mine in their area.
We're recruiting! Communications and Engagement Manager
Release Date: 14 Jul 2022
We're seeking a Communications and Engagement Manager, who will oversee Jubilee's public-facing communications with supporters and other partners.
New report examines the scramble for mineral resources in Bougainville
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Mining,
Growing Bougainville’s future
Release Date: 01 Jun 2022
A new report, published today by Jubilee Australia Research Centre, outlines how the Autonomous Region of Bougainville has become the target of a scramble for resources. The region, which is pursuing independence from Papua New Guinea, has attracted mining and minerals exploration companies from around the world, drawn by its valuable copper and gold reserves.
Act Now! and Jubilee welcome news of BSP closing 30 logging bank accounts
Release Date: 20 Apr 2022
Research and advocacy organisations Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre have welcomed news that Papua New Guinea's largest bank has closed the accounts of 30 logging companies operating in the country.
Pacific Islands demand debt solutions from creditors
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Sustainable economies,
Drop the debt
Release Date: 04 Apr 2022
Pacific Island nations are facing a serious debt crisis worsened by the pandemic and the resulting shutdown of the tourism industry. Jubilee has published a report about it alongside our partners ahead of this week’s Pacific debt conference in Suva, Fiji.
CSOs call for halt to Wafi-Golpu mine approvals as community do not yet consent
Release Date: 01 Apr 2022
Today, a coalition of PNG and Australian civil society organisations called on the proponents of the Wafi-Golpu mine to stop progression of the mine because the project has not yet gained the consent of communities in Morobe Province.
Tiwi, Larrakia Traditional Owners take South Korean Government to court to stop offshore gas project
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Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 23 Mar 2022
Tiwi Islander and Larrakia Traditional Owners are taking the South Korean government’s export credit agencies to court to prevent them from financing Santos and SK E&S’ dirty offshore Barossa gas project.
What we achieved last year: Annual Report 2021
Release Date: 01 Mar 2022
Last year, companies continued to try to push ahead with big projects in the pursuit of profit – with no concern for those who stand to lose out from their actions. But Jubilee Australia, alongside our partners around the world, has been pushing back. We've outlined this work in our Annual Report 2021, published today.
New research reveals how commercial banks have supported PNG’s destructive logging boom
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Land and forests,
Illegal logging
Release Date: 01 Dec 2021
Commercial banks operating in Papua New Guinea have given at least $144 million (K300 million) in available credit, since 2000, to the country’s five largest exporters of tropical logs, a new report by Act Now! and Jubilee Australia Research Centre has revealed.
Papua New Guinea leads on climate targets, lags on action
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Climate Justice,
Changing PNG’s development path,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 04 Nov 2021
In a briefing paper outlining PNG’s progress towards its climate targets, the Nogat Coal alliance ‒ made up of PNG’s Nogat Coal and the Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights, and Jubilee Australia Research Centre ‒ acknowledged the country's strong stance on climate action but urged the government to back its goals with concrete steps to achieve them.
Australian Government blocks climate action, helps foreign governments exploit Australian fossil fuels
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Climate Justice,
Public finance of fossil fuels,
Stop Barossa Gas
Release Date: 04 Nov 2021
Over the past decade, public financial institutions overseas have pumped $AUD36.7 billion into Australian fossil fuel projects, according to a paper published by Jubilee Australia Research Centre, the Australian Conservation Foundation, South Korea’s Solutions for Our Climate and the Japan Centre for a Sustainable Environment and Society. The report shows how the Australian Government has blocked international efforts to limit fossil fuel financing, while over the last decade it has facilitated foreign bankrolling of the Australian fossil fuel industry to the tune of $AUD36.7 billion.
Lenders of last resort? Australia poised to use public money to help coal, oil and gas as private lenders flee
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EFA
Release Date: 06 Jul 2021
A new report by Jubilee Australia has found that Australia’s export credit agency has given around 80 times more financing to fossil fuels than it is to renewables. And that trend could continue, as Trade Minister Tehan on 24 June announced forthcoming changes to legislation which could give EFA even more ways to finance fossil fuel projects. Between 2009 and 2020, Export Finance Australia (EFA) provided financing of up to $1.69 billion to coal, oil and gas but only $20 million to renewables.
Statement from Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and Fiji Council of Social Services in relation to Amex Resources Limited advertisement
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Black sand mining in Fiji
Release Date: 23 Jun 2021
On 19 June 2021, Amex Resources Limited (ARL) published a four-page advertisement in the Fiji Sun entitled “Amex Resources Limited – Response to NGO’s Allegations”. The statement responds to A Line in the Sand, a report published by Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and Fiji Council of Social Services (FCOSS) on 26 May 2021. The report discusses the company’s black sand mining project in the Ba river delta on Viti Levu. Jubilee Australia, Caritas Fiji and FCOSS stand by the report and its recommendations and publish this statement in response.
Local and international groups raise the alarm about black sand mining in Fiji
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Mining,
Black sand mining in Fiji
Release Date: 26 May 2021
Today three community development and human rights groups, Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Fiji Council for Social Services and Caritas Fiji, released a new report raising the alarm about Australian companies engaging in black sand mining in Fiji.
New award names and shames the biggest corporate cane toads
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Clean up Panguna,
Nogat Coal
Release Date: 24 May 2021
Friends of the Earth Australia, Jubilee Australia and ActionAid Australia just launched the Cane Toad Awards - a brand-new award ceremony aiming to name and shame Australian corporations behaving badly.
Webinar outlines why the Barossa project is worth worrying about
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EFA,
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Release Date: 12 May 2021
The Barossa Project is a new large scale and high risk gas project that will draw gas from an offshore field located in pristine marine waters 100km north of the Tiwi Islands. Jubilee Australia spoke at a webinar, organised by Environment Centre NT, on the role of export credit agencies in financing this project and what civil society is doing to oppose this.
Export credit agencies and states potentially at risk of climate litigation over finance for fossil fuels
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EFA
Release Date: 04 May 2021
Export credit agencies (ECAs) – and the governments that oversee them – could be in violation of their international legal obligations if they do not take action to reduce their financing of fossil fuel-related activities imminently. That is the main conclusion of a new legal opinion published today, two days before ministers gather at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue. The opinion, which was commissioned by Oil Change International, for the first time lays out the international law obligations of ECAs that are responsible for tens of billions of dollars per year in support for fossil fuels.
‘Australia needs to end official financing for fossil fuel exports’ say Australian CSOs
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EFA,
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Release Date: 22 Apr 2021
A group of Australian Civil Society (CSOs) sent an open letter to Minister Dan Tehan yesterday, calling for Australia to join governments worldwide who are moving away from using export finance to fund fossil fuel projects.