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G8 to act on climate change, later... maybe

G8 climate deal

07 June 2007

Greenpeace condemned G8 leaders for failing to live up to their historic responsibility for climate change by not agreeing to keep mean temperature rise below 2 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. The deal is "clearly not enough to prevent dangerous climate change" said Daniel Mittler, climate policy advisor of Greenpeace International.

G8 - into the exclusion zone

07 June 2007

As the leaders of the G8 summit, meet at to discuss climate change, 24 Greenpeace activists, using 11 speedboats took the message "G8: Act Now!" to the waters around the Heilingendamm summit. They entered the outer restricted area at 11am, informing the police as they did so. They came in from both east and west sides, entering into the inner restricted zone 10 minutes later.

Bush/Merkel lunch response

06 June 2007

Official Greenpeace responses to statements made by Bush and Merkel today.

Bush's "climate strategy" a dangerous sham

31 May 2007

Greenpeace said today that US President Bush's new climate strategy was not even too little, too late, but a dangerous sham.

Greenpeace: The world’s climate being betrayed by G8 states

16 March 2007

“G8: Stop Talking – Act Now” is the message sent by Greenpeace today to environment ministers meeting in the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany. Activists from the Greenpeace ship “Beluga II” swam to the palace to take a petition to the ministers urging them to use the forthcoming June G8 summit in Germany to agree concrete action to halt climate change.

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