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Greenpeace demonstrates against the ADB-funded Mae Moh power plant. Enlarge Image

Stop Climate Change

Global Warming is a Catastrophe Coming! We already know the causes - humankind's relentless burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. We already know some of the impacts - the melting of polar ice caps, rising oceans, severe droughts, the spread of diseases, massive flooding, coral bleaching and surging storms. We already know who will be hit hardest - coastal countries, island nations, and underdeveloped regions like Southeast Asia.

Lina Tagusi, 55, slices poisonous wild yams for a meal, T'boli, Cotabato, Philippines. Since the extreme drought struck farmers have been subsisting on food foraged from the forest. Since October 2004,the country's worst drought in 50 years has affected around 700,000 people. Enlarge Image

Climate Impacts

Climate change is real and happening right now. Its reality can be seen in melting ice, dying coral reefs, rising sea levels, changing ecosystems and prolonged and more severe droughts. According to the World Health Organization, 150,000 people are already dying every year as a result of climate change. It is for this reason that the world needs to take action now before our planet becomes damaged beyond repair.

A Greenpeace volunteer on top of a wind turbine in Ilocos Norte, around 500 kilometers north of Manila. The 25 megawatt wind farm owned and operated by Danish firm Northwind, is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. According to Greenpeace and the Global Wind Energy Council, the Philippines is poised to become the leading wind power producer in Southeast Asia with potential of up 70,000 MW of clean renewable energy from wind. The value of the global market for wind turbines is predicted to expand from the current 8 billion euros to an 80 billion euro market by 2020. Enlarge Image

Clean Energy

The solution for climate change is a clean energy revolution. It will pave the way for cleaner energy and a safe environment for everyone.

Household energy use. Enlarge Image

Energy Efficiency

Efficiency how to: 12 clever ways to save lots of electricity and money (and by the way: also the planet)

More than 200 schoolchildren take part in a human mosaic on the Rice fields of Pulupundan, forming the message: "Kyoto Protocol: new dawn for the climate." Enlarge Image

The Kyoto Protocol

On 16 February 2005, in the culmination of ten years of sometimes exhausting and often frustrating negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol became law. Thirty-five industrialised countries along with the European Union are now legally bound to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenpeace representatives in concession areas for plantation of PT. Satria Perkasa Agung, subsidiary of Sinarmas Forestry. Greenpeace demands the Indonesian government to seriously reconsider allowing any type of land clearing to be done in peatswamp areas to minimise the possibility of large and uncontrolled forest fires in Indonesia. Enlarge Image

Kyoto - possible pitfalls

Although it is the only international agreement which limits the emissions that cause climate change, the Kyoto Protocol is far from perfect, and contains potential loopholes. Over the years of negotiations, many of these have been closed or restricted, but enough remain to undermine the effectiveness of the agreement if the international community is not vigilant.

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