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Hitting the emergency stop button on coal

World Energy Congress - quit nuclear

11 November 2007

Two Greenpeace activists this evening unfurled a five by seven metre banner reading "Stop Nuclear Madness – Energy Revolution Now" during the opening ceremony of the World Energy Congress in Rome, Italy, attended by Romano Prodi, Italian Prime Minister.

International brands “cooking the climate” as world’s governments prepare to discuss future of the planet

08 November 2007

A month before the world’s governments gather in Bali to decide on the next phase of international measures to combat climate change, a Greenpeace investigation reveals how a handful of the world’s leading brands are complicit in destroying Indonesia’s peat swamp forests, a potential source of substantial additional emissions of greenhouse gases. Peatlands already account for 4 per cent of global emissions. (1)

CO2 levels rising faster than predicted - Greenpeace response

23 October 2007

Responding to findings by the Global Carbon Project, published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” this week, that atmospheric CO2 levels have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, Gavin Edwards, Head of Climate at Greenpeace International said: “Today’s extremely worrying findings add to the overwhelming scientific evidence of the intensity of the climate crisis. We have no more time to waste in tackling climate change.

Greenpeace climate activists refused bail in India, as Al Gore and IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize for raising global climate awareness

12 October 2007

12 October 2007 – Six Indian Greenpeace volunteers are spending the weekend in jail after being refused bail after a protest at a coal-fired power plant outside of Kolkata. The ruling came on the same day that Al Gore and the IPCC jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for increasing international knowledge of, and action on climate change.