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REDD: Reference Levels

Publication | 29 November, 2011 at 17:29

Decisions made on reference levels will in large part determine whether REDD will strengthen or weaken the global effort to avert catastrophic climate change. National reference levels that incentivise real permanent emission reductions from...

REDD: Safeguards

Publication | 29 November, 2011 at 17:02

The Cancun agreement lists seven safeguards in accordance with which REDD+ activities are to be undertaken, and which are to be promoted and supported:

The Dirty Dozen in Durban

Publication | 5 December, 2011 at 8:05

The Dirty Dozen are the top representatives of those corporate polluters that are holding us back from a global deal to limit and reverse GHG emissions worldwide. Greenpeace’s report ‘Who’s Holding Us Back?’ has documented the global effort,...

Durban COP Position Paper

Publication | 29 November, 2011 at 17:41

A green energy revolution is happening. A critical and rapidly growing mass of people, companies, cities and private initiatives are taking on the climate challenge, investing and modernizing their lives and leading their businesses and the...

Polluticians occupy the climate

Press release | 23 November, 2011 at 12:30

Amsterdam/Durban, 23 November 2011 – A new report released today by Greenpeace reveals how a handful of major polluting corporations such as Eskom, BASF, ArcelorMittal, BHP Billiton, Shell and Koch Industries, as well as the industry associations...

"Listen to the people" inside UN climate talks

Blog entry by Mike Ballile | 9 December, 2011 1 comment

Today at the UN climate negotiations in Durban the whispers of polluting companies were drowned out by the roar of the crowd demanding governments “ Listen to the people not the polluters !”  As the talks draw to a close in the...

The Dirty Dozen

Blog entry by Caroline Chisholm | 5 December, 2011 4 comments

After demanding that governments listen to the people and not the polluters at the entrance to Durban Protea Hotel, our Kumi and co-head of the Climate campaign, Tzeporah Berman entered the WBCSD conference to meet and greet with the...

UN climate talks go into overtime

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 10 December, 2011

After two weeks of playing political poker with the fate of the climate, governments negotiating the next painfully slow steps to agree a deal to tackle climate change have finally produced something worth talking about. While it...

COP17 - Week one round up

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 3 December, 2011 2 comments

For a week now government negotiators working on the plan for ‘Long Term Co-operative Action’ on climate change have been scattered across a conference  center in Durban, South Africa negotiating over the wide range of issues not...

Looking for Windows?

Blog entry by Roman Czebiniak | 10 December, 2011

What is a REDD window you might ask?  A REDD Window is ring-fenced funding for forest protection. By this we mean money in a fund that is specifically designated for forests and nothing else. Greenpeace want this REDD window to be...

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