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COP15 Global Day of Action in Beijing

Image | December 12, 2009 at 15:01

12 December 2009 - Beijing, China. Traditional Chinese drummers send a 'time is running out' message from Beijing to Copenhagen as part of a Global Day of Action. More than 10 million people have already signed the TckTckTck petition calling for...

Nuclear Action on the Brandenburg Gate

Image | May 29, 2011 at 15:59

29 May 2011 - Germany. During the nuclear summit attended by chancellor Angela Merkel, Greenpeace activists unfurl a 3 x 18 meter banner on the Brandenburg Gate in support of the German government’s plans for the immediate closure of eight of the...

CLP: Don’t Gamble our Future!

Image | May 12, 2011 at 15:47

12 May 2011 - China. Greenpeace activists set up a gambling table with the message “Nuclear Energy: High Risk, No Gain” at the China Light and Power shareholders meeting at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Greenpeace has condemned the...

Protest at Darlington Nuclear Hearing

Image | March 22, 2011 at 13:36

22 March 2011 - Canada. Greenpeace activists shut down environmental assessment hearings on a proposal to build new reactors at Darlington in response to the Joint Review Panel’s refusal to suspend the hearings until lessons are learned from the...

Chicago 'Quit Coal' message

Image | May 25, 2011 at 16:55

25 May 2011 - United States. A team of Greenpeace activists hanging from an elevated platform begin a second day painting a message on the smokestack of the Fisk coal-fired power plant in Chicago to demand its operator shut down the dirty,...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicts more nuclear disasters, polar bears...

Blog entry by Gianluca R | April 21, 2011

© Moritz Wustinger / Greenpeace   Top news: UN Secretary-General warns that relying on nuclear energy will demand improvements in international cooperation; lots of legal news, with environmental groups protesting against...

Coal Kills

Image | January 18, 2011 at 16:05 1 comment

18 January 2011 - Greece. Greenpeace activists deliver sacks of coal bearing the message “Coal kills” to the European Commission’s offices in Athens. The European Commission is pressing for the liberalization of the Greek power sector, which is...

Nuclear Action at Ministry of Environment in Vienna

Image | March 10, 2011 at 13:48

10 March 2011 - Austria. Activists hang a huge banner from the roof of the Ministry of the Environment in Vienna reading: "Wake up Mr. Berlakovich: Stop German Scrap Reactors". They call for Minister of the Environment Berlokovich to pressure the...

Climbers stop Arctic oil rig

Image | May 29, 2011 at 15:39

29 May 2011 - Greenland. Greenpeace activists scale the underside of the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson oil rig to secure an Arctic survival pod with enough food and water to stay there for ten days. Their action will prevent the rig starting...

Greenpeace block GMO potato warehouse

Image | May 19, 2011 at 14:52

19 May 2011 - Sweden. It’s potato planting time again in the north of Sweden where activists are occupying BASF’s potato warehouse and are blocking the exit in order to hinder the German chemical company from planting the risky GMO potato...

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