How the order of three letters can make the difference between saving a forest - or not. Greenpeace briefing on the impact on climate - and the forests of so-called "Sustainable Forests Management" (SFM).

HFCs are a ‘low-hanging fruit’ in the battle to prevent dangerous climate change. Being extremely potent and short-lived greenhouse gases, their elimination would have an immediate and positive effect on the global climate. Yet their growing...

Just 100 days before the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit, what is the state of play in the negotiations?

Greenpeace, with a coalition of six NGO's and a group of 47 NGO experts from around the world, has written the Copenhagen Treaty - a blueprint for what we want to see world leaders agree when they meet at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in...

The full legal text of the NGO Copenhagen Treaty - written by a team of 47 experts from environment and development groups across the world, including Greenpeace. Very serious legal text.

Key issues at stake for the second round of climate talks in Bonn, June 2009.

Avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change demands that global temperature increase is kept as far below 2°C as possible. This is still possible, but time is running out. We outline how we can do it. Greenpeace briefing for climate...

What sort of action should developing countries take to help stop climate change? Greenpeace outlines a number of ways that this can happen. Briefing for climate negotiations in Bonn, June 2009.

Country commitments to cut emissions under the Kyoto Protocol are negotiated in five-year chunks. Governments are currently discussing the second period, from 2013-2017. But others want to extend these five year periods. Why is this a bad thing...