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Greenpeace activists block an Esso petrol station for business in Esch, Luxembourg this morning. More than 600 volunteers from around the world are shutting down oil company Esso in the European country of Luxembourg in a Greenpeace protest against Esso's continued sabotage of international efforts to protect the climate. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace shuts down Esso

While the world's nations talked about the Kyoto protocol and how to stop climate change at a conference in India, Greenpeace took action to stop the world's #1 climate criminal in an entire nation.

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US just being climate change 'moron'

Canada and New Zealand are doing more to combat climate change by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol this week putting the global agreement to cut greenhouse gases one step closer to reality. But the US and Australian governments are proving they are just morons by refusing to ratify the international treaty they signed five years ago.

Greenpeace activists struggle with a banner in strong winds after they shut down the Esso station in Wasserbillig, Luxembourg. Enlarge Image

Oil giant tries again to silence protests

Oil giant Esso is attempting to sue Greenpeace for more than 225,000 Euros over a peaceful protest against Esso's continuing sabotage of international efforts to protect the climate. Rather than change its damaging practices Esso is seeking to silence protests in the favourite manner of corporate criminals - through the courts.

The original viewpoint taken at the HPS31 glacier fifty years ago. Enlarge Image

World Bank, Pentagon warn: climate changing

A world thrown into turmoil by drought, floods, typhoons. Whole countries rendered uninhabitable. The political capital of the Netherlands submerged. The borders of the US and Australia patrolled by armies firing into waves of starving boat people desperate to find a new home. Fishing boats armed with cannon to drive off competitors. Demands for access to water and farmland backed up with nuclear weapons. Sound like the ravings of doom-saying environmental extremists? It's actually from a report commissioned by the Pentagon on how to ready America for the coming climate Armageddon.

Greenpeace activists climb a 700-ft coal plant smokestack to denounce Bush's dirty power plan. The Hatfield's Ferry Power Station is a symbol and an example of the Bush administration's dirty energy policy that favors polluting fossil fuels over clean energy sources. Enlarge Image

Why climb a 700 foot smokestack?

The Bush administration has trashed US clean air laws by allowing power stations to install new equipment without adding pollution controls, and permitting coal-fired power plants to continue to release tons of mercury. This dirty energy also wreaks havoc on the environment, causing global warming, acid rain, and smog. That's why our activists are 700ft up a chimney in Pennsylvania to call for clean energy now!

Greenpeace activists in 19 countries demonstrated in 2003 in front of Russian Embassies urging President Putin to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Enlarge Image

Putin gives Kyoto green light

George Bush's government is out in the cold over Kyoto - and it's that old Cold War enemy, Russia, that's put it there. The Russian government has moved closer towards ratifying the crucial Kyoto climate change treaty. But while Bush hangs out in hurricane-ravaged Florida before his first election debate, the US government continues to criticise the Kyoto Treaty.

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Kyoto Protocol becomes law

Greenpeace activists, supporters, and volunteers around the world celebrated the coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol with banners, windmills, actions against dirty power, and a shutdown of trading on the International Petroleum Exchange in London. After more than ten years of protracted - sometimes exhausting, often frustrating - negotiations, thirty-five industrialised countries along with the European Community are now legally bound to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Exxon to staff: vote for oil

There's nothing nastier than a wounded tiger. ExxonMobil(Esso) is licking its wounds as Russia moves closer to ratifying the Kyoto protocol. But the world's number one environmental criminal is still fighting tooth and nail to deny the truth about climate change. The US government is increasingly isolated and Exxon is out to ensure its workers keep it that way by voting for US politicians who oppose action against global warming.

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Latest Update If climate change bites harder, you know who to blame! As COP8 ended on November 1, frustrated attempts to move ahead were blamed on the US. "Not satisfied with their failed attempt to wreck the Kyoto Protocol last year, the US now seems hell-bent on unraveling the Framework Convention on Climate Change itself," said Greenpeace's Steve Sawyer in New Delhi. However, there were a few bright moments. An agreement was made to move forward on refrigerant gases that harm the climate (so-called 'F' gases). Canada's delegates dramatically changed their posture as that nation takes steps toward ratification. And with Russia's pledge to ratify in early 2003, the Kyoto Protocol would finally enter into force.