Protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests is a key part of the solution to tackling the climate crisis. Tropical forests, the "lungs of the earth" are giant carbon stores. When they are destroyed through logging or burning, this carbon is...

A Greenpeace position paper on green electricity

Report commissioned by Greenpeace and written by Jean-Pascal van Ypersele and Philippe Marbaix, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. July 2004.

The Greenpeace Forests for Climate (Tropical Deforestation Emission Reduction Mechanism TDERM) proposal for a hybrid market-linked fund would provide the financing needed to help protect the world's remaining tropical forests by reducing...

Rapport dat aantoont hoe bosbescherming in Bolivia als schaamlapje dient voor CO2-uitstoot van American Electric Power, BP en Pacificorp.

This report shows the implications for overall fossil fuel use, in the form of a 'carbon budget' over the next century if the global community is to prevent dangerous climate change.

The European Wind Energy Association has set new targets for the EU-15 to have installed 75,000 MW by 2010 and 180,000 MW by 2020. This is a 25% increase from the targets set in 2000 and a near doubling from those set in 1997. Against a...

By the time the generation born today reaches adulthood in 2020 solar energy could easily provide energy to over a billion people globally and provide 2.3 million full-time jobs. By 2020 solar can provide a projected 276 terawatt hours of energy.