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Australia to back Kyoto

IPCC 4th Assessment Synthesis report

17 November 2007

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a stark warning that Governments need to take strong action for the climate when they meet in Bali to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol’s second phase in two weeks’ time, Greenpeace said today.

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.