Our 2014 election campaign kept climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency at the forefront of candidates’ and voters’ minds in key marginal seats, and helped secure a range of policy commitments from the ALP.

To protect our communities and avoid the worst impacts of damage to our climate, we need to close all coal-burning power stations in the next decade and replace them with clean energy sources like solar, wind and batteries.

Victoria’s outdated planning regulations are still forcing thousands of new houses and developments to connect to the gas network every year. Changing these laws is a simple and urgent first step in the path to phasing out fossil gas.

Our campaign to stop a new allocation of brown coal in Gippsland – the first step of a major new brown coal export industry for Victoria – continued to put pressure on the state government, and in December 2012 they decided to delay allocations for a second time.

This campaign to make one million homes more energy and water efficient.