Past Campaigns

Climate Clearing Cows - 2023 National Conference

Our campaign to embrace Australia's land carbon opportunity. Australia has an incredible land carbon opportunity in front of us. We can can protect our native forests, restore our landscapes, expand our...

NSW Scope 3 Emissions Campaign - Jan 2020

When the State Parliament resumes in February, the NSW Government will continue its pursuits amend our planning laws, in a desperate attempt to override our courts and independent planning bodies to make...

Stop the extinctions

Big news on the pathway to restoring the environment, building a carbon sink at scale and ending extinctions! Australian Government has committed to an important international agreement, The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on...

NSW State Conference 2022

NSW State Conference 2022. Post-Conference Update 20/10/22: The dust has now settled on another NSW Labor annual conference. This year was a particularly successful one for environmental and climate policy. Thanks to...

Rebuilding Australia

2020 can only be described as unprecedented. The urgent need to address climate change and a horrifying bushfire season has dovetailed with a worldwide pandemic leaving millions of Australians...

Platform 2020

The ALP National Platform is important. As ALP President Wayne Swan says, it "sits at the heart of our Party and speaks loudly with a Labor voice about the kind of Australia...

New Jobs in a clean economy - 2019 VIC State Conference

Firstly we'd like to extend a very warm welcome to the 50+ new members who signed up at state conference. It's great to have you on board as we as we continue...

Environment Laws for the 21st Century...with teeth

Our national environment laws and institutions do not protect the environment ... and now our Labor Federal Government is working on reforming them An update on the state of play - June 2023...

Public Renewable Energy in Northern Queensland

North Queensland has some of the best solar resources on the planet. Free fuel to power the Australian economy! Why wouldn’t north Queensland lead the nation as a renewable generation powerhouse, using...

Communicating Climate Action

In the first half of 2016 LEAN is once again out and about talking about climate action with Labor members across the country. WHY? We see climate change as the biggest challenge of...

50/50 Campaign

Through out 2014 and 2015, the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) ran a campaign across the Labor Party to deliver strong climate change policy. The following pages remain as a record of...

19% Plus

from 2014: LEAN is calling on the Labor party to adopt the recommendation of its own expert body – the Climate Change Authority – and adopt a “19% plus” emissions reduction target....