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Greenpeace launches landmark proposal for reducing tropical deforestation at Bali Climate Talks

04 December 2007

Greenpeace today launched a landmark proposal for reducing, and ultimately stopping, tropical deforestation while preserving forest biodiversity and respecting indigenous peoples’ rights. The initiative was launched at a side event of the Bali Climate Conference, featuring the Governors of Papua and Papua Barat, the provinces with the largest intact tropical forests in Indonesia.

“Don't Cook the Climate” Greenpeace tells crucial UN Climate Talks

03 December 2007

As the most important meeting on climate for ten years opened in Bali today, Greenpeace unveiled a giant thermometer outside the conference, warning delegates to avoid rising global temperatures from reaching dangerous levels.

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.

Bulb ban could make Ireland guiding light in EU

08 November 2007

Greenpeace today launched a petition calling on the Irish Government to announce an energy efficiency law with the National Budget and Carbon Budget on 5 December, which will effectively ban conventional energy-wasting incandescent lightbulbs by 2010. Supporters from Ireland and around Europe began signing the online petition to Minister John Gormley this morning at www.greenpeace.org/irishlights