AGL is Australia's biggest climate polluter.
With your help, we can make it Australia's biggest climate solution.
AGL is Australia's biggest climate polluter
With your help, we can make it Australia's biggest climate solution.
After years of effort by Greenpeace, our supporters, AGL’s customers, and their shareholders, AGL is on the cusp of transforming from Australia’s biggest climate polluter into one of Australia’s biggest climate solutions. We need your help to get them over the line.
Earlier this year AGL still planned to keep mining and burning climate-wrecking coal right out to 2048. Now, AGL has announced plans to bring forward the closure of its dirty coal-burning power stations to 2035 at the latest and replace them with clean, renewable energy. This is a huge win, and will avert the equivalent of half Australia’s total yearly emissions from our atmosphere. But, AGL still has more to do!
Both the UN and International Energy Agency warn that Australia’s coal power stations must close by 2030 at the latest to ensure a safer climate and economic future for Australia. As Australia’s biggest supplier of toxic gas to households, AGL must also lead the switch from gas to electrical appliances.
In order to achieve this, AGL must refresh its board of directors to ensure it has leaders with the skills and experience to take decisive action on climate change and transform the company into the renewable energy hero we know it can be.
AGL needs new leaders for a new era.
AGL’s existing board of directors are falling short, and refusing to support the election of new board members with the skills and experience necessary to help them accelerate their decarbonisation journey.
Four highly credible candidates have put their names forward to join the AGL board of directors. It’s crucial that AGL’s existing board members show their support for these new candidates before shareholders vote on them in November’s Annual General Meeting.
Click the link below to find out more about the candidates. Then, send an email to the AGL’s board of directors calling on them to do the right thing.
AGL needs new leaders for a new era.
AGL’s existing board of directors are falling short, and refusing to support the election of new board members with the skills and experience necessary to help them accelerate their decarbonisation journey.
Four highly credible candidates have put their names forward to join the AGL board of directors. It’s crucial that AGL’s existing board members show their support for these new candidates before shareholders vote on them in November’s Annual General Meeting.
Click the link below to find out more about the candidates. Then, send an email to the AGL’s board of directors calling on them to do the right thing.
AGL's climate pollution
AGL wants to keep burning coal in dirty power stations until 2035.
That’s still 5 years too late.
Scientists warn we MUST stop burning coal by 2030 to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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83% of AGL’s electricity comes from dirty coal burning power stations.
AGL releases 42 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere each year.
AGL produces more than 2x the emissions of Australia’s next biggest climate polluters, Origin and Energy Australia.
AGL has breached its environmental licences 111 times since 2015.
Find out more about AGL's climate pollution in Greenpeace Australia Pacific's report, Coal-Faced.
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The high price of AGL's actions
Burning coal is the dirtiest and most destructive way to generate electricity.
A greener future
It is not a question of if, but when, Australia will be powered entirely by renewables.
