Climate solutions

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 Durban summit in November. You can get behind our plan in a whole lot of different ways. Here's how.

The Solution 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

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Working for the Climate Renewable Energy and the Green Job [R]evolution Briefing

Publication | September 14, 2009 at 3:30

The solutions to the economic crisis and the environmental crisis are far from being mutually exclusive. As we head towards the Copenhagen Climate Summit, world leaders have the opportunity to stimulate economic recovery while cutting carbon...

Working for the Climate Renewable Energy and the Green Job [R]evolution

Publication | September 14, 2009 at 0:00

It's not just the economy that's in crisis...In 2009, the world is reeling from a collapse of the financial markets. The effects have been large job losses in the UK, USA and other developed nations, volatile stock markets and millions of...

Equity and Climate Action:
Greenpeace Position

Publication | May 27, 2009 at 13:01

There is an urgent need for bold action on a global scale to bring greenhouse gas emissions down as close to zero as possible by mid-century in order to avoid catastrophic change - and all countries will need to participate in this effort. One of...

Copenhagen Climate Summit
Greenpeace Demands

Publication | May 27, 2009 at 12:58

2009 will see an intensive round of international negotiations, culminating in the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December as governments thrash out a deal to combat climate change. This represents the best chance we have of reversing...

Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge Scoring Criteria

Publication | May 27, 2009 at 0:00

Scoring IT companies on their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent climate change.

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