Ask The Government to Rein in Dirty Dozen emissions

Just 12 big fossil fuel companies make up 10% of Australia’s emissions. Companies like Santos, Shell and Glencore are fuelling the climate crisis, raking in billions in profit while households and businesses suffer rising costs and the impacts of climate change.

This is a critical week. The Australian Government is deciding on how strong to make emissions reduction policies for these companies. Send an email to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen to remind him that we want a strong Safeguard Mechanism which:

Doesn't allow these companies to keep on polluting by buying dodgy offsets for their entire pollution
Close the door on new fossil fuel projects that would blow the carbon budget for the Safeguard Mechanism; and
Make big climate polluters pull their weight on reducing emissions so that regular Australians and local businesses don’t have to pick up their slack.

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To the Honourable Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen,

Big polluters, like Shell, Santos and Glencore, have been relentlessly profiting from increasing their carbon pollution while Australian households and businesses have been facing rising costs and the impacts of climate change fuelled bushfires and floods.

I urge you to use the opportunity of the Safeguard Mechanism reforms to protect our communities and climate by making these polluters do their fair share to tackle the worsening climate crisis.

Myself and many others in the Queensland Conservation Council network are writing to ask you to commit to a Safeguard Mechanism which;
1. Doesn't allow companies to keep on polluting by buying dodgy offsets for their entire pollution
2. Closes the door on new fossil fuel projects that would blow the carbon budget for the Safeguard Mechanism; and 
3. Makes big climate polluters pull their weight on reducing emissions so that regular Australians and local businesses don’t have to pick up their slack.

If you do not take the opportunity to lock in a strong Safeguard Mechanism, we will be locked into more dangerous extreme weather for decades to come, and destroy any hope of Australia making the deep cuts in emissions we need by 2030.

Please respond publicly and to me personally on how you will strengthen the Safeguard Mechanism and make Australia’s biggest polluters do their fair share.

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