Reports Latest reports by Friends of the Earth

Our updated report on community attitudes about who should pay for the damage caused by more frequent & intense wild fire.

The 'who should pay' survey > www.melbournefoe.org.au/reports

Help PNG community members defend their lands from Santos' dirty gas plans! Right now, in Papua New Guinea, communities are fighting to protect their lands and livelihoods in the face of a massive proposed gas project.The project is currently at a tipping point. While the pro...

Help PNG community members defend their lands from Santos' dirty gas plans

Can you chip in & help cover the costs to get these community representatives to Santos’ AGM next week?

chuffed.org/project/papua

Gas pipeline giant must come clean on the true cost of new projects Now more than ever, gas companies must be upfront on the fundamentals of projects they want to develop. Australia's largest gas pipeline company may have let investors down in this respect.

Will van de Pol of @marketforces.org.au

"Investors need gas companies to be completely upfront about the fundamentals of projects they want to bring into this rapidly shifting & increasingly risky global gas market".

reneweconomy.com.au/gas-pipeline...

Our guide for making a quick, powerful submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/submission_g...

Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...

Make Polluters Pay: Victorian Training & Planning Day A training and planning day for people across Victoria working to win a Climate Compensation Fund paid for by big polluters not communities.

Since launching the campaign calling for a national Climate Compensation Fund communities across the continent have stepped up to make big polluters pay their fair share.

Hundreds of people have joined the campaign & VIC is leading the way.

Training day, may 2.

events.humanitix.com/victraining

Friends of the Earth Australia calls for peace, public transport, a tax on polluters & electrifying everything Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...

The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran has had devastating human impacts and triggered the worst energy crisis in modern history

Friends of the Earth Australia calls for peace, public transport, a tax on polluters & electrifying everything

Read full statement:

False claims from The Australian do a disservice to public debate Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek t...

A number of false & misleading claims have been made about Friends of the Earth in The Australian newspaper today.

In a long piece focusing on funding for enviro orgs, a number of false claims were made about us & our work.

Our response is here >

www.foe.org.au/false_claims

Who should pay for the costs of bush fires? In January and February 2026 major fires impacted significant areas of Victoria. More than 400,000 hectares of bush and farmland have burned. Hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged across the sta...

Please add your views to the survey. It will be open until the end of April > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

who should pay survey Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

We asked people in VIC about their experiences of this summer's fires and who should pay for the costs of fighting fire & clean up.

Overwhelming support for a levy on fossil fuel exports.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/who_should_p...

'A majority of the committee — including Greens chair Peter Whish-Wilson, the two Labor senators, independent David Pocock and Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan — used their additional comments to make clear that the main report does not go far enough.'

Last Saturday we hosted a public symposium, sharing community stories & concerns about Transport Justice in western Melb.

We asked attendees what their top priorities are when it comes to Public Transport and they said:

- Reliability & Connectivity
- Cost of Living
- Safety & Accessibility

The snow gum summit declaration Friends of the Earth recently hosted the second ‘snow gum summit’. It was held in Jindabyne and around 120 people gathered to hear from experts in the fields of snow gum die back and th…

The sum gum summit declaration 2026.

'Snow Gums (Warragung in Ngarigo) are at risk of disappearing, rendering Australia’s unique Alpine environment unrecognisable. Climate change is responsible for increased bushfire events & spread of dieback'.

themountainjournal.com/2026/03/31/t...

Macquarie has been a little shy 👉👈 … but we know deep down it's just as proud of the billions of tonnes of emissions its financing as it is about doing climate action 🫠

So today we surprised them with an award. 🎖️ #auspol #climate #macquariebank #beetaloo

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

'The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

MEDIA RELEASE: Snow Gum Summit 2026. Scientists warn climate change threatens ecosystems and water security at Snow Gum Summit: The Next Ascent (2026).

'Scientists have issued a dire warning that the widespread death of key eucalypt species in Australian ecosystems could be imminent, due to global heating.

Scientists gathered at the Snow Gum Summit last week to discuss combating the loss of an iconic tree'.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/media_releas...

Cyclone Narelle: ‘compact’, dangerous and unusually predictable Cyclone Narelle is expected to cross the Queensland coast on Friday morning. It has followed a predictable westward path, which is highly unusual.

'Sea surface temperatures in the northwest Coral Sea are currently 0.5–1.0°C above average, and this has fuelled the storm’s rapid intensification.'

theconversation.com/cyclone-nare...

Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development

Terrible news: oil companies get access to 187 tracts in Alaska totaling about 1.3 million acres.

'The lease sale threatens to bring a new onslaught of harmful oil & gas drilling & other industrial activity to ecologically sensitive areas'.

earthjustice.org/press/2026/w...

Snow gum dieback raises fears for Murray–Darling water Dr Matthew Brookhouse will address the 2026 Snow Gum Summit in Jindabyne on 14, 15 March

A story from our recent snow gum summit.

'A voracious wood-boring beetle is rapidly destroying the snow gum forests of the Australian Alps, as climate change creates the perfect conditions for them to thrive.'

www.wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/environ...

List Snowgum Woodlands as Threatened under Federal Environment Laws Add your Voice: List Snowgum Woodlands as Threatened under Federal Environment Laws

We are seeing the beginning of ecosystem collapse of snow gum woodlands. We must develop a recovery plan if these communities are to remain viable into the future.

The 1st step towards a recovery effort is to recognise the risk of extinction nationally.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/snowgum_nomi...

Our Snow Gum Summit on Ngarigo Country this weekend explored scientific, biocultural & community-driven solutions for Warragung / Snow Gums. Thanks to Ngarigo presenters Dr Jakelin Troy, Jason Fieldhouse & Lara Troy-O’Leary, Taungurung Land & Waters & an unreal lineup of researchers & land managers.

We've been off at the snow gum summit in Jindabyne. 2 days of extreme tree & science nerding. Its been awesome.

www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...?

You can read the report here > www.netzero.gov.au/energy-indus...

The Review of the Net Zero Economy Authority’s Energy Industry Jobs Plan has been tabled in Parliament.

It calls for the Fed gov to "determine the best model to deliver transition supports to workers in closing coal mines (incl those that sell coal to the export market)."

We welcome the report.

"A tidal wave of hostile messaging:" The billions spent each year by fossil fuel industry demonising renewables Head of energy policy in world's fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

Head of #energy policy in world’s fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy #transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure by Israel to have toxic environmental fallout, experts warn

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Friends of the Earth has regular field trip in the Wombat forest in Central VIC with representatives from the Galk-galk Dhelkunya (forest gardening) team of DJAARA.

The next one is on fri March 27:

www.melbournefoe.org.au/wombat_work_...

Snow gum summit program 2026 Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

This weekend we are presenting the 2nd snow gum summit in Jindabyne, NSW.

We are bringing the best research & thinkers together to delve into solutions to the twin threats of dieback & longer, more intense fire seasons.

Full details >
www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...

As part of the Snow gum summit we will be co-hosting a planting afternoon on 16 March 2026 in Perisher Valley in the Snowy Mountains.

If you'll be in the area please join us.

Full details > www.melbournefoe.org.au/adopt_a_snow...

Feeling the pinch lately? Did you know climate impacts make up around 20% of the #CostOfLiving increase since 2022? We think it's time that big companies also feel the cost of their climate pollution!