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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicts more nuclear disasters, polar bears...

Blog entry by Gianluca R | 21 April, 2011

© Moritz Wustinger / Greenpeace   Top news: UN Secretary-General warns that relying on nuclear energy will demand improvements in international cooperation; lots of legal news, with environmental groups protesting against...

People vs. Oil

Image gallery | 17 June, 2015

COP15 Global Day of Action in Beijing

Image | 12 December, 2009 at 16:01

12 December 2009 - Beijing, China. Traditional Chinese drummers send a 'time is running out' message from Beijing to Copenhagen as part of a Global Day of Action. More than 10 million people have already signed the TckTckTck petition calling for...

CLP: Don’t Gamble our Future!

Image | 12 May, 2011 at 17:47

12 May 2011 - China. Greenpeace activists set up a gambling table with the message “Nuclear Energy: High Risk, No Gain” at the China Light and Power shareholders meeting at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Greenpeace has condemned the...

Protest at Darlington Nuclear Hearing

Image | 22 March, 2011 at 14:36

22 March 2011 - Canada. Greenpeace activists shut down environmental assessment hearings on a proposal to build new reactors at Darlington in response to the Joint Review Panel’s refusal to suspend the hearings until lessons are learned from the...

Chicago 'Quit Coal' message

Image | 25 May, 2011 at 18:55

25 May 2011 - United States. A team of Greenpeace activists hanging from an elevated platform begin a second day painting a message on the smokestack of the Fisk coal-fired power plant in Chicago to demand its operator shut down the dirty,...

Nuclear Action at Ministry of Environment in Vienna

Image | 10 March, 2011 at 14:48

10 March 2011 - Austria. Activists hang a huge banner from the roof of the Ministry of the Environment in Vienna reading: "Wake up Mr. Berlakovich: Stop German Scrap Reactors". They call for Minister of the Environment Berlokovich to pressure the...

Iceberg at Tianjin UNFCCC climate meeting

Image | 7 October, 2010 at 13:54

07 October 2010 - China. Greenpeace highlighted accelerating climate change by placing a 5.5m by 4m iceberg near where negotiators were meeting at the last set of climate negotiations before the Cancun talks in Mexico. With the banner saying...

Greenpeace block GMO potato warehouse

Image | 19 May, 2011 at 16:52

19 May 2011 - Sweden. It’s potato planting time again in the north of Sweden where activists are occupying BASF’s potato warehouse and are blocking the exit in order to hinder the German chemical company from planting the risky GMO potato...

Coal Kills

Image | 18 January, 2011 at 17:05 1 comment

18 January 2011 - Greece. Greenpeace activists deliver sacks of coal bearing the message “Coal kills” to the European Commission’s offices in Athens. The European Commission is pressing for the liberalization of the Greek power sector, which is...

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