One delayed. More to go. BLAIR PALAISE 350 ORG

One delayed. More to go. Stop the coal and gas mining giants by becoming a 350.org Climate Defender today.

Dear Neville,

Six months ago, Australia held the fate of the world’s climate in its hands. Thanks to your help, our movement has delayed the largest new coal mine in the Southern Hemisphere planned for Queensland’s Galilee Basin – a climate and reef-destroying project.

The work we’ve done together to slow down new fossil fuel projects in Australia is not only important, but effective. But the fight to protect our climate has a long way to go.

After a major campaign to get the Commonwealth Bank to end it’s involvement with Adani’s mega-coal mine in the Galilee Basin, our Government is now indicating that it will use taxpayer dollars to fund this monster project. They are also trying to change the laws that allow community groups to challenge environmentally controversial projects.

It’s up to us to stand up to our Government’s pro-coal agenda and climate denial rhetoric and stand strong together to keep Australia’s coal in the ground for a brighter future.

Will you take a stand to help protect our climate by donating $19 each month as a 350.org Climate Defender?

In our fight against fossil fuel expansion, we’re up against some of the biggest multinational corporations in the world who are taking what’s ours in their relentless pursuit of profit and fossil fuels that we simply can’t burn.

And our governments continue to push ahead with more plans to open and expand coal and gas mines not only in Queensland but in New South Wales and Western Australia too, with huge implications for all of us.

That’s why we need your help to stand up and fight back.

350’s strategic campaigns are having a significant impact as they hit the fossil fuel industry where it hurts – campaigning for super funds, banks universities and councils to divest from fossil fuels and fighting back some of the largest fossil fuel projects on the planet. 350’s divestment work has led to almost 400 institutions – including the Newcastle City Council, ACT Government, Norwegian Sovereign Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, moving away from fossil fuel investments. Thank you for helping us to achieve this.

But winning slowly can, sadly, be the same as losing where climate change is concerned. Unless the end to coal, oil and gas comes swiftly, the damage from global warming will overwhelm us.

That’s why we’ve got to move faster than ever before.

Will you help to speed up the fight for our climate by becoming a 350.org Climate Defender today and donate $19 or more each month?

350 is a small group, but we’re having a real impact. As a Climate Defender, you’ll be right there alongside us funding our strategic campaigns to keep Australia’s fossil fuels in the ground and saving our climate.

You’ll help to stop carbon bombs like Adani’s Galilee Basin coal development seeing the light of day. If this one project went ahead it would cook the climate and wreck the Great Barrier Reef.

You’ll help by supporting our divestment campaigns that target big superannuation funds, councils and universities to weaken the fossil industry’s stronghold on our politics as we race for a fossil free future.

And, when all else fails, you will be supporting peaceful protest and the remarkably brave people who step up and put themselves on the frontline to stop dangerous fossil fuel expansion.

Join 350.org today as a Climate Defender and together we will do all we can to protect our climate.

Thank you for your commitment to save our climate, I deeply respect the work that you have done so far.  Whatever you can give at this time will help to make a big difference for our climate and our future.

I look forward to your support and to working with you!

Warm wishes,

Blair Palese for the 350.org Australia team

P.S. Knowing that Australia’s coal mining plans are a clear and present danger to our entire planet makes what you and I do today incredibly important. Become a climate defender by donating $19 a month and save our climate.