‘Point of no return’

The proposed Adani Carmichael coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin was identified in Greenpeace’s 2013 “Point of No Return” report as one of several key projects that must not go ahead if the world is to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. 

Adani and the politics of coal

In the process of campaigning to prevent this mine going ahead, the Stop Adani movement is also challenging the place of coal in Australia’s future.

Leading environmental movement strategist John Hepburn writes,

‘The campaign against the Adani mine has become a powerful symbol in the struggle over the future of coal in Australia… For the environmental movement the campaign is a line in the sand in the fight over the future of the global climate’.

The politics of Adani have been called ‘a proxy war between forces for and against the coal industry in Australia’.

Stop Adani states, ‘The campaign to stop Adani’s coal mine is our chance to turn the tide of coal in Australia.’