AGL is Australia’s biggest climate polluter. AGL spends millions spruiking its environmental credentials. On closer inspection, it doesn’t stack up.
AGL is Australia’s largest power company. Millions of Australians get their electricity from the company every day. You might even be a customer yourself. AGL proudly advertises itself to the Australian public as green and environmentally responsible. But a deeper dive into the company reveals the truth couldn’t be more different to its carefully crafted public image. AGL is Australia’s number one climate polluter, and it’s not even close. 85% of their electricity comes from burning dirty coal, meaning they emit more than double the next biggest polluter. Coal is the biggest driver of the climate crisis. Australia can’t move fast enough to avoid the devastating effects of climate change unless AGL gets out of coal. Business as usual is simply not an option if we want a safe, clean future for our environment and communities. Join us in demanding that AGL clean up its act.
Scientists warn we MUST stop burning coal by 2030 to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
◦ AGL wants to keep burning coal in dirty power stations until 2048. That’s 18 years too late.
◦ 85% 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.
Act now: Read the report: With your help we can convince AGL to switch to 100% renewable electricity.
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◦ Join the campaign to demand AGL rapidly close its coal-burning power stations and replace them with clean and safe renewable electricity by 2030!
◦ Send AGL’s new interim CEO Graeme Hunt a message urging AGL to replace its dirty coal-burning power stations with clean renewable electricity.