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Tuesday, Jan 26
Greenpeace - Making Waves: January 26: Greenpeace says no to nuclear in France and Spain; As the BASIC meeting ends in India, the World Economic Forum begins in Switzerland
AAP reports that the political and business elite heading for the Davos forum this week have been told to leave their polluting limousines behind. Under a new climate change initiative, the World Economic Forum is blocking the fuel guzzling cars that normally clog the roads around the co...
Thursday, Jan 21
Greenpeace - Making Waves: January 21: Swiss Red-Carpet activist Christian Schmutz recalling the experience of being imprisoned
Hopes for stronger world action in 2010 to curb climate change have dimmed after the U.S. Democrats lost a key Senate seat to a Republican opposed to capping emissions. "E-waste contains toxic substances: lead, nickel, chromium, mercury and other plastics. Developed countries, especial...
Thursday, Jan 14
Greenpeace - Making Waves: The top 10 Greenpeace videos
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a YouTube video in possession of the word "naked" in its title, must have lots of views. Such is the case for the video recounting how hundreds of people stripped naked on a Swiss glacier for a Spencer Tunick art installation. I find it a bit sad that...
Wednesday, Jan 13
Wade Allison’s radiation reassurances: nowhere near enough
This week the UK’s Guardian newspaper featured a new book by Oxford University professor of physics, Wade Allison. In his book ‘Radiation and Reason’ Professor Allison says ‘health dangers from nuclear radiation have been oversold, stopping governments from fully exploiti...
Monday, Jan 11
Of climate, weather and Arctic blasts
It cannot be said too often that climate and weather are not the same thing. The first regulates the temperature and weather patterns on a long term basis, the other one is guilty for blocking the traffic with snow this morning, or making the heat today unbearable. NASA puts it better than I co...
Friday, Jan 8
Greenpeace - Making Waves: Warming to civil disobedience after Copenhagen’s failure
Whether the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Summit has dealt a mortal blow to the process of international climate negotiations in their current form is an important question currently under debate. A broader issue that is receiving attention in a handful of European countries is the...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: January 8: Media whirlwind on the release of the red-carpet activists continues; Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics version 14 released; more on the sinking of the Ady Gil
The biggest Greenpeace story continues to be the release of the red-carpet activists. This has made international news, though most coverage is coming out of Spain and Denmark. Spanish paper El Periódico features video footage of the press conference on the Rainbow Warrior that follow...
New information on Danish "investigation" and holding of Red Carpet Four for 20 days without trial
Did Danish authorities really hold our activists in prison for 20 days because they were diligently investigating how they got onto a red carpet at a state dinner during the Copenhagen climate conference? New evidence suggests not.
Tuesday, Jan 5
They went to jail - what will you do?
If the intention of the Danish police is to imprison climate activists to stop their acts of civil disobedience, they need to jail me and the millions of people who, like the Red Carpet Four, would be proud to take non-violent action to demand action against global warming. The restriction...
Monday, Jan 4
Greenpeace - Making Waves: IT climate leaders: make yourselves (politically) relevant
While governments have said they will be back to strike a deal at the UN climate summit in Mexico in 2010, Copenhagen's "outcome" clearly begs the question--Which countries will overcome the status quo voices of their fossil fuel industry, and put the necessary policies in place to comm...
Monday, Dec 28
"Red Carpet Four" -- Our Heros!
In Copenhagen, leaders didn't make history--but the world's people did. A year of unprecedented action on climate change reached never before seen heights in the last two weeks: Thousands upon thousands of vigils, rallies, and protests, floods of phone calls and messages sent, millio...
Wednesday, Dec 23
Greenpeace - Making Waves: TODAY: Will Santa Free Our Activists for Christmas? COP-FLOP Stories of Woe Continue; Swiss City Bans GP Supporter Recruitment
In the Washington Times, Gabe Wisniewski was quoted, "Two years have passed since world leaders promised all of us a deal to stop climate change. After two weeks of U.N. negotiations, politicians breezed in, had dinner with the Queen, a three-hour lunch, took some photos, and then delivere...
Tuesday, Dec 22
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Nuclear News: Copenhagen’s failure may leave plans for new nuclear power stations high and dry
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Copenhagen’s failure may leave plans for new nuclear power stations high and dry ‘The failure of the United Nations summit in Copenhagen to produce a firm agreement on climate change has jeopardised plans...
Saturday, Dec 19
Copenhagen is over, but we're not done yet
Obama called it a "historic first step" and it's neither historic nor a first step. The Kyoto Protocol was both, yet in the 12 years since it was laid down, we've barely progressed - the increasing severity of climate change impacts and the urgent warnings from scientists should have had le...
Friday, Dec 18
Drowned rats
2. Like Naomi Klein just told the folks at the Fresh Air Center, it’s time to “take the kid gloves off with Obama.� As an American who gave not just my vote but my time and money to Candidate Obama, I feel betrayed by President Obama. He has sold us down the river on too many important issues,...
Copenhagen: Blow by blow
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While we're waiting to hear the announcements from Copenhagen - here's a blow by blow account of what's happened at the Summit so far - written by Martin Lloyd, our climate communicat...
Give us the money or the climate gets it
Currently, our future is in the hands of world leaders over in Copenhagen. They are in the final days of negotiating a climate treaty that has the potential to either save the day or keep us on a path to dangerous climate change. Michelle
Thursday, Dec 17
Greenpeace "Head of State" crashes Queen’s dinner to send a message to world leaders
The climate negotiations are on the verge of massive failure, but Heads of State still have just under twenty-four hours to turn the situation around. The rich world must commit to deeper emissions cuts and funding for developing country to lower their own emissions and adapt to the impac...
Youth vigil calls for urgent action
The climate talks are on the verge of total collapse. Nothing short of an unprecedented outpouring of public demand for a real deal here in Copenhagen can move world leaders to break the impasse in the negotiations and make the deal that will stop catastrophic climate change.
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Copenhagen, nuclear power and the Clean Development Mechanism
Nuclear energy was specifically excluded from the CDM at the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change conference in 2001. Needless to say, the nuclear industry and its supporters have been lobbying hard ever since for nuclear’s inclusion in the mechanism.
Greenpeace - Making Waves: One small step against a dirty plan, one giant leap for climate justice!
This week, reporters in Prague have been buzzing with excitement at the news that there was an official request from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a small Pacific Island State, to participate in the Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (TEIA) proceedings on pla...
Tuesday, Dec 8
Check out the live stream of our side event here at the UN climate summit
Earlier this year, Grenpeace activists hung the above banner on the iconic Mt. Rushmore in the US after it became apparent that Obama was not leading the climate debate as he'd promised. Continue reading Check out the live stream of our side event here at the UN climate summit...
Wednesday, Nov 18
Every cloud has a silver lining
Our activists have been stopping forest and peatland destruction on the peninsula and highlighting the significant role this destruction plays in climate change. With just 17 days before the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen they have clearly been ruffling a few feathers in Indonesia. Bu...
Sunday, Nov 15
Climate defenders to stay - Police reverse eviction order under pressure from communities
This is a major win for the dedicated team of climate defenders who have been in the camp for the past few weeks, and for the local communities who must live with the impacts of deforestation and peatland drainage. Local community members with Rob, the camp leader and other climate defender...
Thursday, Oct 29
Climate actions and EU Summit mark the International Week of 'Quit Coal, already!'
Climate solidarity means quitting coal, cutting emissions - and putting down enough money to help poorer nations adapt to climate change. Climate solidarity does not mean putting down a token amount of financing for poorer nations and then continuing to use dirty - and emission heavy - s...
Sunday, Oct 25
Climate Defenders Camp
Our climate defenders are taking up position at the frontline of forest and climate destruction to tell world leaders that to avert climate chaos they must tackle deforestation here and now. Our team in Indonesia has set up a camp in the heart of the rainforest where activists will remain f...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Greenpeace activist updates direct from action at tar sands upgrader facility
The tar sands are a perfect example of what lack of leadership on climate change and unchecked greenhouse gas emissions produces – a toxic disaster zone that is leaching 11 million litres of toxins into the groundwater and pumping 100 million tonnes of carbon into the air per day. This is...
Thursday, Sep 24
A Pacific wave of support for climate action
Hi it is Ulamila here, the climate witness from the Cook Islands with this tcktcktck.org campaign. Ula, works with a media network in the Pacific called Pacific Wave. They raise awareness about issues including climate change and they are calling on governments for action.
Wednesday, Sep 23
To the phones! Call your leader and demand they attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit!
Dear climate activist, Every head of state needs to go to Copenhagen and take personal responsibility for preventing catastrophic climate change. So we’re asking you and millions of people like you around the world to pick up the phone now and call your head of state. Team Climate
Saturday, Sep 19
Agents of change in New York City
Watch this space for more from these amazing women who will be participating in events throughout Climate Week in New York (click here to see the list of events). Join these women by signing up to be a climate activist. And If you have any questions you would like to ask thesm - please submit a co...
Tuesday, Sep 15
Green jobs: 8 million (more) reasons to avoid catastrophic climate change
By Julien Vincent, Climate and Energy Campaigner - Greenpeace Australia-Pacific World leaders need to wake up to the fact that fossil fuels are a dead end. We desperately need an Energy [R]evolution to preserve a safe climate, as well as secure, affordable energy and jobs in the power sec...
Greenpeace activist updates direct from the tar sands
Update from Mike Hudema - Climate Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada - 7am local time Over three hours onsite with activists chained to two earthmovers and two at the very top of the crane. My eyes are burning but we are actively stopping this climate destruction.
Tuesday, Nov 11
Mercedes-Benz or flying pig?
The new SUV from Mercedes is an oversized gas-guzzler - they've created a climate pig on wheels, "according to Marc Specowius, cars campaigner from Greenpeace Germany. "Car buyers don't want gas guzzlers any more. So they're not only endangering the climate, they're also a threat to jobs...
