If we can demonstrate that a growing number of organisations, clubs, events and institutions are not willing to take fossil fuel sponsorship money, we can create a clear mandate for other groups to end their relationships, and undermine the social license of fossil fuel companies who are profiting off wrecking our planet.
Groups including the Minerals Council of Australia have engaged in extensive lobbying and advertising campaigns that seek to undermine government action on the climate crisis. They have benefited from a revolving door that sees key staff go back and forth between the highest positions in politicians’ offices, the public service, coal companies, and the coal lobby.
To create a better, safer, cleaner world for our kids to grow up in, we need the Minerals Council of Australia to stop blocking climate action, and support the just transition to a renewable energy economy.
But we can’t do it without a powerful movement of people like you. We need your support to take on one of the most powerful opponents to building a better future: