7/30/2019 Full page ad, placed in the Australian Financial Review

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We, the undersigned, call on Australia to cease the expansion o coal exports rom this

country and join eorts to prevent global warming running out-o-control and destroying

lives and livelihoods here and abroad.

It is now well understood that heatwaves, res, foods and droughts are expected to

become more requent and more intense in the coming decades as the planet warms.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Bureau o Meteorology, the CSIRO,

and the Prime Minister have all made the link between climate change and extreme

weather. Australia is especially vulnerable to the multiple impacts o climate change.

To avoid out-o-control global warming and its consequences, greenhouse gas emissions

worldwide must peak and decline by the middle o this decade and Australian coal exports

must do the same.

Coal exports are Australias biggest contribution to climate change and Australians are

suering its impacts now.

We understand that it is not easy or Australians to talk about the role our coal plays

in driving climate change, but we can no longer maintain our silence. Our coal is a

contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions which have worsened extreme weather.

People at home and abroad are suering as a result.

Even the World Bank has warned that the world is on track to reach our degrees o

global warming within the next eighty-ve years. Australia has committed, along with the

rest o the international community, to ensure that does not happen. Our choice is clear:

cease expansion o coal exports or wilully threaten the uture o our children.

Lets talk about coal

Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw, University of Adelaide Associate Professor Peter Alexander Christoff, University of Melbourne

Dr. Richard Denniss, The Australia Institute Professor Matthew England, University of NSW Professor Peter Gell, University of Ballarat Dr Elizabeth Hanna, President Climate and Health Alliance

Professor David Karoly, University of Melbourne Professor David de Kretser AC, Monash University

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, University of Western Australia Professor Ian Lowe, President Australian Conservation Foundation Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University Bill McKibben, President 350.org Dr. Guy Pearse, University of Queensland

Professor David Shearman, Hon. Secretary Doctors for the Environment David Ritter, CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacic

With the support o:

350.org Australian Conservation Foundation The Australia Institute Australian Youth Climate Coalition

Bimblebox Nature Refuge Cairns and Far North Environment Centre Capricorn Conservation Council

Central West Environment Council Climate Action Monaro Climate Action Network Australia Climate and Health Alliance

Conservation Council of South Australia Conservation Council of Western Australia Doctors for the EnvironmentEnvironment Victoria Friends of the Earth Australia GetUp! Hunter Community Environment Centre Lighter Footprints

Mackay Conservation Group Mudgee District Environment Group National Toxics NetworkNature Conservation Council of NSW North Queensland Conservation Council Northern Illawarra Sustainability Alliance

Oxfam Australia Quit Coal Stop Brisbane Coal Trains The Wilderness Society

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