Add your name: stand with Generation Justice

We’re a group of young people (with our legal team from Environmental Justice Australia) who have taken the Australian Government to the UN over its failure to protect young people from climate harm. 

Now, not one but TWO UN Special Rapporteurs have issued serious allegations about Australia’s continued coal and gas expansion.

In less than two weeks, Australia will take a leading role in global climate negotiations at COP31.

If Australia wants to demonstrate climate leadership on the world stage, it needs to address serious questions about what it is doing at home.

Don’t let Albanese dodge the question.

Add your name to our open letter calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to stop approving new coal and gas projects and protect young people’s futures.

To add your name: Please add your name and organisation (if you have their permission!) to the form at the bottom of this page by 9 November 2026. 


By signing, you agree to have your name publicly listed in support of this letter. If you’re signing on behalf of an organisation, please make sure you have permission to do so. Otherwise, you’re welcome to sign as an individual.

The Open Letter

Prime Minister, you can’t protect our future while approving coal and gas

Young people have a right to a safe future. Governments have a responsibility to protect it.

Dear Prime Minister,

We’re young people who want to enjoy our lives and grow up looking forward to our futures.

Instead, we’re dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, hectic bushfires, floods and extreme heat.

We should be able to trust that our Government is looking out for us, and doing everything it can to protect our lives and futures.

Instead, you keep approving new coal and gas projects that make climate disasters worse.

Because you’re not listening to us, we turned to the United Nations.

Now, two UN Special Rapporteurs have raised issued serious allegations about Australia’s continued coal and gas expansion and its impacts on our human rights.

How can Australia claim climate leadership at global climate negotiations while continuing to make the climate crisis worse?

Prime Minister, we’re calling on your Government to:

  1. Stop approving new coal and gas projects and expansions.
  2. Immediately end subsidies to coal and gas corporations.
  3. Develop a national roadmap to phase out climate pollution in a way that’s fast and fair

Young people deserve to feel safe, have a say in decisions that shape our lives and look forward to our futures.

Prime Minister, protecting our future means its time to stop making the climate crisis worse.

Signed,

Generation Justice
On behalf of young people across Australia