Greenpeace is pushing for some big, visionary measures to turn around the global trend towards runaway climate change. The plan needs political will to make it happen and the opportunity is at the Copenhagen summit in December. You can get behind our plan in a whole lot of different ways. Here's how.

Solutions for the climate

  • Make sure emissions peak in 2015 and decrease as rapidly as possible towards zero after that.
  • Developed countries must make cuts of 40 percent on their 1990 carbon emisisons by 2020.
  • Developing countries must slow the growth of emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020, with support from industrialised nations.
  • Protect tropical forests with a special funding mechanism - forests for climate.
  • Replace dirty fossil fuel energy with renewable energy and energy efficiency.
  • Reject false solutions like nuclear energy.

The latest updates

 

World leaders unfurl a banner reading ‘Coal

Image | October 2, 2009 at 19:42

World leaders unfurl a banner reading ‘Coal-fired Arctic meltdown’ at Svea, Svalbard - 75 degrees North. The activists are supporting Greenpeace’s call for a commitment of $140bn a year from developed nations to fund adaption, mitigation and...

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age

Image | September 29, 2009 at 21:02

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age of Stupid premiere in New Delhi at PVR in Saket Mall. Franny Armstrong's acclaimed docu-drama was screened to raise awareness on climate change and it's effect on our planet.

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age

Image | September 29, 2009 at 21:02

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age of Stupid premiere in New Delhi at PVR in Saket Mall. Franny Armstrong's acclaimed docu-drama was screened to raise awareness on climate change and it's effect on our planet.

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age

Image | September 29, 2009 at 21:02

Shekhar Kapur gets interviewed at The Age of Stupid premiere in New Delhi at PVR in Saket Mall. Franny Armstrong's acclaimed docu-drama was screened to raise awareness on climate change and it's effect on our planet.

‘It is time for us to move against the political system and save our planet’

Feature story | September 29, 2009 at 5:30

Climate, it seems, waits for no one. So it was with filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who was a Greenpeace volunteer for two days when he flew from sea level to the Himalayas and back, warning world leaders on climate change all the while. From the...

View of Gaumukh

Image | September 23, 2009 at 19:18

View of Gaumukh, the mouth of the Gangotri Glaciers and source for the Ganges River. The Indian Government commissioned a research team. Findings revealed the Gangotri Glacier is receding at around 25 metres a year.

View of Gaumukh

Image | September 23, 2009 at 19:18

View of Gaumukh, the mouth of the Gangotri Glaciers and source for the Ganges River. The Indian Government commissioned a research team. Findings revealed the Gangotri Glacier is receding at around 25 metres a year.

View of Gaumukh

Image | September 23, 2009 at 19:18

View of Gaumukh, the mouth of the Gangotri Glaciers and source for the Ganges River. The Indian Government commissioned a research team. Findings revealed the Gangotri Glacier is receding at around 25 metres a year.

Photograph of Gaumukh in 1984

Image | September 23, 2009 at 19:08

Photograph of Gaumukh in 1984, extracted from the book “HIMALAYA: Through the lens of a Sadhu” by Swami Sundar Annand.

Photograph of Gaumukh in 1984

Image | September 23, 2009 at 19:08

Photograph of Gaumukh in 1984, extracted from the book “HIMALAYA: Through the lens of a Sadhu” by Swami Sundar Annand.

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