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• Climate Change & Renewables

  23.0% of the votes | #1 issue

WHAT’S NEXT

GetUp is at the forefront of building a people-powered movement to drive the transition to a clean energy future. When you said you wanted us to make climate change our number one issue – we listened. In fact we have restructured our organisation to prioritise our campaigns for climate justice and clean energy. We’re investing in a crack team to work with you to build the consumer power to shift markets and the electoral power to shift politics. We’re also working to prevent the expansion of harmful fossil fuel industries in areas like the Galilee Basin, and we’ll be looking for more opportunities to keep fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.

By year’s end we’ll have switched 50,000 people through our Better Power campaign, helping members divest more than $100 million of their money from dirty power companies like AGL, Origin and EnergyAustralia and putting economic pressure on them to change their polluting ways. Divesting is quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways of getting the attention of big business, and we’ll be using our consumer power to put financial pressure on big banks to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry. By this time next year, we’ll have supported tens of thousands of GetUp members to connect with their friends, family, neighbours and workmates to put all politicians on notice. At the next election, we will do everything we can to ensure whomever forms government knows we will take nothing less than serious action to combat the issue that defines our moment in history.

WHAT GETUP MEMBERS HAVE ACHIEVED:

GetUp members never waiver from the big challenges. Tackling climate change and building a clean economy remains your number one priority. Together we’ve focused on creating political and economic power that can drive the changes the science demands. In the 2014 Victorian State Election hundreds of GetUp members joined our friends at Environment Victoria to make clean energy a vote deciding issue by door knocking our neighbours, hosting candidate forums and writing letters to local media. At the fast-tracked 2015 Queensland State Election we turbocharged the reef campaign with thousands of GetUp members turning out on election day to let people know how they could vote to save the reef.

We’ve also helped more than 11,000 people switch from dirty power providers to those backed by renewable energy, sending a clear message to the government and dirty power companies that we’re ready to support clean energy. Just this month we’ve partnered with the Lock the Gate Alliance to hit the ground in key coal seam gas hot spots like the Northern Rivers, supporting residents in their fight against unsafe gas mining in their communities.