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Greenpeace demands climate leadership from SA parliament

Feature story | February 18, 2010 at 13:33

Cape Town, 10 February 2010 - On the eve of the opening of Parliament, Greenpeace activists projected a 1500m² banner onto the Athlone cooling towers to remind South Africa’s decision makers that urgent domestic action is required to reduce...

Protest at BASIC Meeting in Cape Town

Image gallery | January 31, 2010

Letter to the Danish ambassador

Feature story | January 6, 2010 at 12:30

Your Excellency: I write to you in the immediate aftermath of the disappointing conclusion of the Copenhagen climate summit to ask for your assistance with regard to the fate of four Greenpeace campaigners detained by the Danish police.

AREVA confirms Greenpeace’s alarming radiation findings in Niger

Blog entry by elaine.hill | January 6, 2010

It’s just over a month since Greenpeace announced it had found high radiation contamination levels in the streets of Akokan close to French nuclear company AREVA’s uranium mines in Niger . Today, we’re able...

IT climate leaders: make yourselves (politically) relevant

Blog entry by elaine.hill | January 6, 2010

2009 should have been the year that governments and the market clearly signaled that the transition to a low carbon economy had begun in earnest on a global scale. It wasn't however, and the IT sector will have to do better in 2010 to...

World leader cop-out leads to failure

Blog entry by elaine.hill | December 30, 2009

It's a gut-busting, heart-breaking cop-out and I'm so very, very angry although sadly not very surprised. The exhaustion we're all feeling in the Greenpeace team only adds to the appalling sense of frustration - our leaders swanned in...

Crosses and Crossroads

Blog entry by elaine.hill | December 30, 2009

Something was rotten in the state of Denmark, and its stench wafted all the way to Hong Kong. On Monday, 20 of our activists erected 100 crosses and held a minute of silence at the Cenotaph in the city's Central district to mourn the...

Kumi Naidoo

Image | December 28, 2009 at 21:23

Climate change: Failure is not an option

Feature story | December 28, 2009 at 20:56

The following is a letter from Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, to our supporters at the conclusion of negotiations by heads of state at the Copenhagen climate summit.

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