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The Canopy is a weekday morning email newsletter provided by the team at Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
## [A Canopy announcement and today's climate news](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/a-canopy-announcement-and-your-daily-climate-news)
Friday, 10 May 2024
Some news from The Canopy team at Greenpeace Australia Pacific:
## [Environment groups respond to WA Climate Change Bill at Parliament](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/environment-groups-respond-to-wa-climate-change-bill-at-parliament)
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
The Climate Change Bill before WA parliament will determine how WA responds to the climate crisis at a critical time as the only state without a 2030 emissions reduction target. It comes as figures from the [Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water](https://greenhouseaccounts.climatechange.gov.au/) reveal that WA annual...
## [Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet.](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/worst-summer-on-record-for-great-barrier-reef-as-coral-die-off-sweeps-planet)
Monday, 6 May 2024
The Great Barrier Reef just experienced its worst summer on record, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last month that the world is undergoing a global mass coral bleaching event — the fourth since the late 1990s — impacting at least 53 countries.
## [Tiny freshwater Snowy Mountains fish faces extinction without action](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/tiny-freshwater-snowy-mountains-fish-faces-extinction-without-action)
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
The Yalmy galaxias is ‘on the verge of disappearing for ever’ and Laboron the brink of failing to meet its zero extinctions target.
## [Queensland looks to cut emissions by 75 per cent by 2035 in rare show of bipartisanship](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/queensland-looks-to-cut-emissions-by-75-per-cent-by-2035-in-rare-show-of-bipartisanship)
Monday, 22 April 2024
Queensland looks to cut emissions by 75 per cent in a decade and a renewable energy target of 80 per cent by 2035 was enshrined in law on Thursday. Labor and the LNP both voted for the former, in a rare show of bipartisanship in an election year to make Queensland a renewables superpower.
## [El Niño is over and another La Niña could be on the way](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/el-niño-is-over-and-another-la-niña-could-be-on-the-way)
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Seven months after an El Niño associated with hotter and drier weather got under way, conditions have returned to neutral.Should a La Niña get under way later this year it would be the fourth such event in the past five years. Such a sequence – of three La Niñas followed by an El Niño and La Niña...
## [Coral bleaching event felt across the globe](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/coral-bleaching-event-felt-across-the-globe)
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
It’s not just the Great Barrier Reef that’s going through coral bleaching, the world is experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat.
## [New data shows Great Barrier Reef suffering underwater bushfire on par with Black Summer](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/new-data-shows-great-barrier-reef-suffering-underwater-bushfire-on-par-with-black-summer)
Monday, 15 April 2024
New data shows the Great Barrier Reef has suffered through its worst-ever heat stress with more than 80% of reefs enduring dangerous levels of heating (more than four Degree Heating Weeks), as scientists grapple to quantify the irreparable, cumulative damage from repeated such events.
## [Better travel options can halve travel pollution from transport by 2030](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/better-travel-options-can-halve-travel-pollution-from-transport-by-2030)
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Halving transport pollution in Australia by 2030 is possible under the Climate Council’s ground breaking plan to electrify the nation and cut climate pollution by 75% this decade.
## [King tides cause new levels of devastation in Tuvalu, as the nation weighs up the Falepili Union treaty](https://blog.greenpeace.org.au/the-canopy/king-tides-cause-new-levels-of-devastation-in-tuvalu-as-the-nation-weighs-up-the-falepili-union-treaty)
Monday, 8 April 2024
Angela Telupe watched her backyard flood as a king tide tightened its grip on the main island of Tuvalu. Tuvalu Meteorological Service data and communication officer Simoea Tiute said the February king tide was the worst she had seen in her life in Tuvalu. The flooding came as Tuvalu considered the...
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