Greenpeace negotiators and members of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development call for action on climate change at the Johannesburg Earth Summit.

International negotiations

This page is intended primarily for policy makers, journalists and others who attend or report on international meetings about climate change. Hopefully though, it is also useful to anyone who wants better understanding of what goes on at these meetings, and what is at stake from their results.

For each meeting you will findGreenpeace position statements and other relevant documents, and oftenfirst hand accounts from our delegations.  Please note that most of these are archived web page, and so may be out of date.

 

Sorry, documents from earlier conferences are not in our online archive.  Perhaps try the WaybackMachine.

More information:

UNFCCC meetings page

The latest updates

 

Apple states bold coal-free ambition for iCloud, now must explain how it will get there

Blog entry by Gary Cook | May 23, 2012

Apple has made a bold claim to make all three of its data centres “coal free” and has doubled the amount of solar energy powering its data centre in North Carolina. Apple’s customers certainly appreciate boldness, and will love the... Read more >

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy iCloud

Blog entry by Gary Cook | May 18, 2012

This week, after hundreds of thousands of Apple customers and Greenpeace supporters asked the company to use clean energy instead of dirty coal, it announced a significant investment in local renewable energy to power its data centre... Read more >

Activists Block Duke Coal Shipment, link Mountaintop Removal to iCloud

Blog entry by Gabe Wisniewski | May 3, 2012 5 comments

A set of train tracks in rural North Carolina is not the kind of place that brings iPads to mind. But this railroad is part of the chain that links you and me – and anyone who uses the cloud – to the massive destruction caused by the... Read more >

Apple: Think Different about your dirty energy

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | April 25, 2012 15 comments

The Internet and social media are extraordinary engines of change helping to drive revolutions and positive social change. They’ve become central tools for how we bring pressure on polluters and governments. But if we are not careful,... Read more >

How Clean is your Cloud - Apple responds

Blog entry by Gary Cook | April 17, 2012 16 comments

Our new report “ How Clean is Your Cloud ” is out today - to show that the massive increase in Internet use is mainly being powered by dirty energy. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all score badly in the report for relying on dirty coal... Read more >

News from the Energy Revolution

Blog entry by Martin Lloyd | April 13, 2012 5 comments

News that the UK could be set to import volcano power from Iceland has also focused some attention on the number of high voltage interconnectors being built across Europe. So now is a good time to revist a report Greenpeace put out... Read more >

With rights come responsibilities

Blog entry by Frida Bengtsson, Greenpeace Nordic | March 29, 2012 4 comments

I’m in sunny Stockholm this week, spring is here for sure and woolly hats and gloves are yet again stored away for next winter.  In a grand Natural History museum not so far from where I work sit scientists, Indigenous representatives,... Read more >

Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Mixed Bag

Blog entry by Pat Lerner | February 3, 2012

With this year’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development meeting – also known as “Rio+20” – fast approaching, Greenpeace senior political advisor Pat Lerner takes an in-depth look at the UNSG’s High Level Panel report on... Read more >

The future we want? Between hope and despair on the road to the Rio Earth Summit

Blog entry by Daniel Mittler | January 13, 2012 25 comments

I have been up at night a lot over the last ten days thinking about the future. You do not have to feel bad for me as the reason was a joyful one: I was carrying around my new born daughter. As I stared at her fresh face and hints of... Read more >

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