To President Hollande and World Leaders
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ADVERTISEMENT AN OPEN LETTER To President Hollande and World Leaders We, the undersigned, urge you to put coal exports on the agenda at the 2015 Paris COP21 climate summit and to help the world’s governments negotiate a global moratorium on new coal mines and coal mine expansions, as called for by President Anote Tong of the Republic of Kiribati, and Pacific Island nations. While world leaders discuss emission reduction targets, a small number Furthermore, these coal export plans will have severe negative impacts on the of countries with large coal reserves, including Australia, are planning to health and wellbeing of citizens all over the world. massively expand their coal exports. These plans are incompatible with the • Australia’s coal contributes to climate change, with its global health impacts. world’s objective of limiting global warming below dangerous levels. • Each phase of coal’s lifecycle produces pollutants that affect human health, from mining to disposal of contaminated water and tailings, transportation, Australia has a larger share of the seaborne coal market than Saudi Arabia has Read open letter in fullwashing, att: [LINK] combustion, and disposing of post-combustion wastes. of the world oil market. Over the next 10 years Australia plans to double its • Communities in which coal mining or burning occurs have been shown to coal exports. suffer significant health impacts. If it goes ahead, the Carmichael mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin would • The health and climate costs of coal are unseen. In reality coal is an export more than 2 billion tonnes of coal over its lifetime. And that’s just one expensive fuel. mine. Australia has dozens of coal projects on the drawing board. A global moratorium on new coal mines and coal mine expansions could make Paris COP21 truly historic. SIGNATORIES -- Prof Peter Doherty AC David Pocock Amelia Telford Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996; Australian Wallaby rugby union player, Captain 2012 National Director, Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network Australian of the Year 1997; Laureate Professor, Melb Uni Prof Richard Flanagan Kirsty Albion Prof Fiona Stanley AC FAA Author, Man Booker Prize, Prime Minister’s Prize; National Director, Australian Youth Climate Coalition Distinguished Research Professor, School of Paediatrics Chair of Australian Literature, Melbourne Unviersity Paul Oosting and Child Health; Australian of the Year 2003 John Coetzee National Director, GetUp! Dr Charles Watson AM MBBS MD FAFPHM DSc Author, Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 Lyndon Schneiders John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences, Hilary McPhee AO National Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society Curtin University Author; Former Chair, Australia Council; Geoff Cousins Prof Kingsley Faulkner AM Cit.WA MBBS FRACS Senior Fellow, Melbourne University Chair, Australian Conservation Foundation; Businessman School of Medicine, Fremantle, UNDA; Adam Spencer Kelly O’Shanassy Past President RACS Mathemetician; Media personality and comedian CEO, Australian Conservation Foundation Prof Tim Flannery Jimblah Ben Oquist Councillor, Climate Council; Australian of the Year 2007; MC, Producer and vocalist Executive Director, The Australia Institute Sustainability, Melbourne University Drusilla Modjeska David Ritter Prof Lesley Hughes Award winning author National Director, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Councillor, Climate Council; Richard Piper Cam Walker Ecologist, Macquarie University; IPCC Lead Author Actor Campaigns Co-ordinator, Friends of the Earth Australia Prof Will Steffen Rod Mullinar Dr Bob Brown Councillor, Climate Council; Climate Scientist, ANU Actor Environmentalist; Former Leader of the Australian Greens Prof Carmen Lawrence Thea Ormerod Ian Dunlop Former Federal Minister, Premier WA, President of Australian Religious Response to Climate Former Chair, Australian Coal Association; Federal President ALP; Psychology, UWA Change (ARRCC) Former Executive, Shell Prof Simon Chapman AO FASSA HonFFPH (UK) Bishop George Browning Emeritus Prof Bob Douglas AO Public Health, University of Sydney 9th Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn; Inaugural Convener Director Australia21 Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff AM FRACP Anglican Communion Environment Network Adj Prof Frank Talbot AM Global Health, Melb; Co-President, Stuart McMillian Marine Scientist; Director Emeritus, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War President of the Uniting Church of Australia US National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Inst (Nobel Peace Prize, 1985) Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black Dr David Morawetz Dr Peter Tait Environmental Advisor, Council of Progressive Rabbis Psychologist; Founder and Director, Social Justice Fund Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Medical School, ANU; Julian Robertson Rev Dr Patrick McInerney RACGP GP of the Year 2007 Presiding Clerk, Director Columban Mission Institute, Sydney Assoc Prof Shauna Murray Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Mrs Anne Lanyon ARC Future Fellow, Plant Functional Biology and Prof Neil Ormerod Co-ordinator Columban Centre for Peace, Climate Change, UTS Professor of Theology, ACU Ecology and Justice, Sydney Prof Rob Moodie AM Rt Rev Prof Stephen Pickard Jeannie Rea Public Health, Melbourne University Executive Director, National President, National Tertiary Education Union Emeritus Prof Mark L Wahlqvist AO Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture Prof Robert Costanza Medicine, Monash University; Prof Nihal Agar Economist; Chair in Public Policy, Crawford School, ANU Former Head of Medicine at Prince Henry’s Hospital Chair of the Hindu Council of Australia Prof John Quiggin Prof Colin Butler Dr Peter Macreadie Economist, ARC Federation Fellow, UQ Public Health, UC; Co-founder BODHI Australia ARC Fellow, Prof Clive Hamilton Prof Shilu Tong Plant Function Biology and Climate Change, UTS Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Public Health, QUT Dr Andrew Glikson Ethics, CSU Prof Hilary Bambrick Climate Science, ANU Prof David Karoly Chair of Population Health, WSU Emeritus Prof Bruce Armstrong Climate scientist, Melb Adj Prof David A Hood AM HonFIEAust CPEng USYD; Chairman, Bureau of Health Information Bernie Fraser Former President, Engineers Australia; Engineering, QUT Emeritus Prof Robert Manne Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia 1989-96; Politics, Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Founding Chair, Climate Change Authority To add your name to the 10,000+ others supporting President Tong of Kiribati Visit > nonewcoalmines.org.au/take_action nonewcoalmines.org.au.