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Melanie Laurent gives support to Greenpeace activists and local volunteers during attempt to halt drainage by constructing dams on the peatland canals as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia. Enlarge Image

Inglourious treehuggers dam climate change!

If we told you that there was one single way to cut a fifth of global greenhouse emissions - that simply involved hugging trees - would you believe us? Probably not - but that's exactly what's required. And we've got 50 activists in the Indonesian rainforest together with Inglourious Basterds star Mélanie Laurent - doing just that - and calling on world leaders to do the same.

Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner on arecently cleared peatland forest in the pulp and paper concession of PT.Arara Abadi-siak owned by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Kampar-Riau. Greenpeace is protesting against the destruction of kampar Peninsular`s peatland forest by pulp adn paper and palm oil industries and called on the indonesian goverment to implement a moratorium on deforestation. peatland forest is critical for maintaining biodeversity and it`s degradation releases vast stores of carbon thereby contributing to global climate change Enlarge Image

EU leaders must help SBY to protect Indonesia’s forests: Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists placed two 20 x 50 meter banners with the portraits of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy on recently cleared peat land in Sumatra, ahead of the European Union leaders summit that begins in Brussels on October 29.

Greenpeace activists and 200 local community members take part in a traditional ceremony to mark the completion of the ‘Climate Defenders’ Camp’, which they built together on the threatened Kampar Peninsula. The Camp was built to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace sets up base in Indonesia rainforest to prevent climate destruction

Greenpeace announced today that it has set up base in the heart of the Indonesian rainforest and will remain there for several weeks in order to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace volunteers from the environment organization made their way at venue of the ASEAN Summit, pushing a gigantic “earth ball” with the message “ASEAN leaders: U turn the Earth" to challenge the ASEAN to push the world in the right direction. The environment organization is calling on ASEAN leaders to demonstrate collective leadership to protect Southeast Asia’s 850 million people from the debilitating impacts of climate change by committing to zero deforestation and low carbon development, and to force the leaders of the developed countries to agree to deep and binding cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December. Enlarge Image

ASEAN: Get serious about climate threat!

Greenpeace today challenged ASEAN leaders to demonstrate collective leadership to protect Southeast Asia’s 850 million people from the debilitating impacts of climate change by committing to zero deforestation and low carbon development, and to force the leaders of the developed countries to agree to deep and binding cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December.

Greenpeace activists welcome SBY's second term as President of Indonesia and call on him to save the climate by immediately halting deforestation in front of presidential palace. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace welcomes President Yudhoyono as the leader who will save our climate

Greenpeace today delivered a letter and a bouquet of flowers to congratulate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on his inauguration for his second presidential term, and for declaring his intention to take leadership in the battle against climate change by reducing Indonesia’s greenhouse emissions by 21 percent by 2020.

Greenpeace volunteers help an old woman get first aid after she fainted due to lack of sleep and food for almost 24 hours. Greenpeace deployed inflatable boats to assist in flooded areas during the extreme weather event and is reiterating its call for industrialized nations to put up an adaptation and mitigation fund for countries like the Philippines that are most vulnerable and least prepared to deal with the impacts of climate change. Enlarge Image

UN climate negotiators in Bangkok turn deaf ear to Ondoy and Pepeng onslaught

As the climate talks in Bangkok limped to a close, Greenpeace called on the leaders of the rich world to make the political decisions needed to save the climate.

Espírito Santo Cattle Ranching, Para State, Brazil. Enlarge Image

Cattle industry ban on Amazon destruction shows the way for protection of Indonesia’s forests

Some good news from the Amazon should be good news for Indonesia too. Yesterday four of the biggest players in the global cattle industry joined forces to reduce their carbon hoofprint and back our call for zero deforestation. JBS-Friboi, Bertin, Minerva and Marfrig are going to stop buying cattle from newly deforested areas of the rainforest.

Five Thai children hand little elephant “piggy banks” containing “small change for the climate” to Yvo De Boer, the UN’s top climate official, at the start of the lastest round of climate negotiations in Bangkok. The event was the final step in Greenpeace’s 15-day, 250km Chang(e) elephant caravan through Thailand to highlight the impacts of climate change and deforestation, in partnership with tcktcktck. The children represent over 1.4 million people who have so far signed up to the global tcktcktck coalition’s call for a fair, ambitious and binding agreement on averting climate chaos at Copenhagen. Enlarge Image

70 days to Copenhagen: time is running out for the climate and our children’s future

After a disastrous week for the climate in New York and Pittsburgh, five Thai children today made a direct appeal for their future to Yvo De Boer, the UN’s top climate official, at the start of the latest round of climate negotiations in Bangkok. They handed the UN little elephant ‘piggy banks’ containing “small change for the climate”.

A family was able to retrieve just a bag of belongings from their devastated house in Bgy. Sto. Niño in Marikina, which was submerged in floodwaters reaching three stories high. The people there are in desperate need of water, food and medicines. Greenpeace is calling on industrialized nations to put up an adaptation and mitigation fund for countries like the Philippines that are most vulnerable and least prepared to deal with the impacts of climate change. Enlarge Image

Typhoon Ondoy an omen of things to come

In light of the extreme weather event that devastated Luzon in the past 24 hours, Greenpeace is reiterating its call for industrialized nations to put money on the table for adaptation, mitigation and forest protection in order to help countries like the Philippines that are most vulnerable and least prepared to deal with impacts of catastrophic climate change.

Elephants from the Greenpeace Chang(e) Caravan play outside the 'Bench of Public Appeals' in 'Ancient Siam,' during the concluding press conference of the Caravan. The Chang(e) Caravan, a people’s caravan for change which passed through Thailand’s climate change impacted areas aims to gather support in its call for world leaders, particularly United States President Barack Obama, to enact an ambitious, fair and binding climate deal this December in Copenhagen, and to make available necessary funds to protect Southeast Asia’s natural forests, to ensure the future of the region, its biodiversity and its people. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace challenges world leaders to accelerate UN climate negotiations. Chang(e) Caravan concludes outside Bangkok.

On the eve of the United Nations climate negotiations in Bangkok, and 72 days before the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Greenpeace today dared world leaders to stand up, show their mettle and take first step toward lasting climate solutions.

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