Parents want end to fossil fuel company sponsorship of WA Nippers

A new campaign supported by Greenpeace urges Surf Life Saving WA to scrap $5m naming rights deal with fossil fuel company Woodside, arguing that the company is using children as walking billboards. Coalmine expansions and developments approved in Australia so far this year are expected to add nearly 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over their lifetimes – equivalent to nearly a third of the country’s annual climate pollution. And amidst criticism from the Pacific, Australia calls on development banks to pay more attention to the region.

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Parents say they don’t want their children to be walking billboards for Woodside, the naming rights sponsor for Nippers in Western Australia. A group of “diehard, salt-encrusted surf lifesavers” called Sustain Surf is behind the new campaign, with support from Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

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