After 20 months of mobilizing, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. This is the campaign timeline.
Greenpeace, along with anti-coal communities from all over the country have banded together to raise their opposition to coal, reassert their rights to a safe and healthy environment, and to demand that the government reverse all coal projects...
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01 December 2017, Manila Philippines - A proposal to increase the tax imposed on coal from PHP10 per metric ton to PHP 300 per metric ton by 2020 is scheduled to go through a bicameral session today. The proposal, voted on by the Senate of the...
We, the members of the communities hosting and threatened by coal-fired power plants in Asia, have come together today to claim our rights to clean air, water, soil and living space in our planet.
Local communities in Negros Occidental and the international environmental group Greenpeace today dumped some two dozen sacks of charcoal at the entrance of the provincial capitol to warn incoming officials they would not tolerate continuing...
Have you heard about Facebook's coal problem? More than 600,000 people have joined our campaign calling Mark Zuckerberg and his company to go green. Please sign up here to join the campaign, and receive Greenpeace email updates.
Bangkok, November 15, 2006 -- People Against Coal (PAC), a network of affected communities, civil society groups and environmental organizations in Thailand today called on the Thai government to stop the expansion of coal fired power plants and...
La Union, Philippines; 15 July 2018. – Local groups in this province, considered as the surfing capital of the North, came together this weekend to join their voices to the growing number of communities around the world calling to #breakfree from...
Leaders of communities opposing proposed coal fired power plants in Thailand and the Philippines together with Greenpeace met with JBIC officials today to ask the bank to stop financing fossil fuel projects and instead shift financing to...
“Clean coal” is an attempt by the coal industry to try and make itself relevant in the age of renewables.
Greenpeace, in partnership with local groups of Bo Nok and Ban Krut, today announced an initiative to support the construction of a community learning center in honor of Charoen, a local activist shot dead last year.
Three Greenpeace crew members from the organisation's flagship the Rainbow Warrior today were dropped into the Map Ta Phut port waters after BLCP coal plant staff cut the ship's mooring lines while police refused to intervene. Plant personnel had...
Seven Greenpeace climbers from around the world have set up a second camp on one of the BLCP coal plant's 60-metre electrical transmission pylons as its protest against the continued construction of the climate killing coal plant and 18 future...
International environmental group, Greenpeace together with local activists and villagers from Bo Nok stormed the headquarters of Gulf Power Inc. today to push for the cancellation of the proposed polluting coal-fired power plant project in...
The environmental group Greenpeace today drew attention to the alarming build-up of toxic heavy metals in the vicinity of coal-fired power plants all over the country, citing the particular experience of a coal power station in Batangas whose...
Environmental group Greenpeace today sent the coal industry a message that was audacious but clear.
Environmentalists from Greenpeace, WALHI and Yayasan GENI today condemned the coal industry at the CoalTrans Conference 2003, the largest gathering of coal barons, branding them as climate criminals. Balinese firewalkers carried a globe over coal...
Greenpeace today branded an EGAT announcement that it would increase the use of coal as "criminally irresponsible" and flying in face of economic, social and environmental common sense.
Community leaders from different parts of the Philippines and Thailand gathered today in Chiang Mai to forge alliances and warn others of their tragic experiences in hosting coal-fired power plants.
A group of coal monsters staged a takeover at the Department of Energy in Taguig City, renaming the agency the “Department of Coal Energy,” and asking to see their “leader,” Energy Secretary Jose Rene “COALmendras.”
Carrying the message “Dirty coal: more fun in the Philippines, thanks to DOE and ADB,” dozens of nasty “coal demons” danced in frenzied joy in in front of the Asia Development Bank (ADB) in Metro Manila, during the second day of the bank’s 7th...
Greenpeace today called on the Government of Thailand to make a clean energy future a reality for Thai communities by abandoning plans to build more coal fired power plants and prioritizing solutions such as renewable energy.
After 20 months of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this victory possible!
Guimaras, Philippines; 24 February 2018 – During ceremonies coinciding with the visit of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, to the province, Guimaras Governor Samuel T. Gumarin and the municipal mayors of the island today declared...
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), the technological poster child for the future of the global coal industry has just had its biggest supporter pull the rug out from underneath its feet.
Living up to its name as one of the "Filthy Three" nations trying to block action on climate change, Australia is playing dirty tricks trying to get Thailand and other developing countries locked- into a future based on greenhouse-polluting coal...
Community leaders from Southeast Asia today met with top executives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to kickstart a campaign that seeks to halt funding for coal power plant projects and support renewable energy projects instead. Coal, the...
Manila, Philippines – Church groups, concerned citizens, social movements, and civil society organizations are about to launch Piglas Batangas! Piglas Pilipinas!, a national campaign initiative against coal and other dirty and harmful energy.
One week into the Philippines leg of our flagship the Rainbow Warrior’s Quit Coal tour and senior politicians are lining up to support our Quit Coal call to protect the climate.
As the seventh annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration conference gets underway in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Greenpeace has launched 'False Hope' - a report critically examining the status and promise of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
After officials from 158 countries meeting in Vienna agreed the next steps for negotiating phase two of Kyoto, the world now turns its gaze southward towards the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Sydney to see if some of the...
Greenpeace and over 20 community organisations representing thousands of people from across from Australia, the Philippinees and Thailand (1) today launched a People’s Declaration Against Coal in Prachuap Khiri Khan, home of assassinated...
The action that Greenpeace took against the Sual coal plant in Pangasinan on Sunday 21 July, brought people from around the world together to demand 'No More Coal.' Activists from Greenpeace UK joined the action to demonstrate the shameful way...
Community leaders from different parts of the Philippines and Thailand gathered today in Manila to forge alliances and warn others of their tragic experiences in hosting coal-fired power plants. The event, hosted by environmental group Greenpeace...
The energy sector is responsible for some two-thirds of world's climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions Coal-fired power plants are the biggest offenders.
Lucena City, Quezon - Religious leaders in the Southern Tagalog region, social movements, and civil society groups come together in Lucena to add their voice to the global call to ‘Break Free’ from coal and other dirty and harmful energy. It is...
Quezon City, Philippines - Greenpeace welcomed the Climate Change Commission's (CCC) recently released Commission Resolution 2016-001, which calls for a "national policy review” of the country’s energy policy in order to reduce the country’s...
Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior arrived today in General Santos City in Mindanao, Southern Philippines to kick off the Philippine leg of her “Turn the Tide” tour of Southeast Asia. The ship, which brings with her a vision of a green and...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is responsible for financing climate change in Asia and its policies are contributing to the displacement of communities and the destruction of ecosystems in the region, Greenpeace said today, as activists dressed...
Anti-coal leaders from across Asia today called on their governments to quit coal power and begin the switch to clean renewable energy. The statement came at the close of a series of workshops hosted by Greenpeace and attended by community...
Safe, affordable and accessible water is one of our planet's scarcest natural resources. Many people don't have access to fresh water for sanitation, agriculture, or even to drink. Yet, global water consumption by the power sector...
Greenpeace and over 20 community organizations representing thousands of people from across from Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Thailand has launched a People’s Declaration Against Coal in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand—the...
The use of coal brings with it a host of environmental, human health and social costs, which can be clearly seen through its impacts on mostly poor communities in and around mines and coal-fired power plants.
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior today sailed into Maasim, Sarangani in Mindanao to join thousands of fisherfolks and community residents seeking to ‘knock out’ a proposal to build a coal power plant in their area.
Greenpeace today welcomed the Olongapo City government resolution expressing their objection to harmful coal-fired power plants, and called on other cities and provinces to join the movement to 'quit coal' and go renewable as a solution to stop...
“We believe there is no place for coal in a world beset by climate change and certainly there is no place for coal in Albay” That was the statement of Governor Joey Sarte Salceda, setting the tone for our one month Quit Coal tour of the...
Greenpeace today criticized the non-prioritization of the Renewable Energy (RE) Bill in Monday’s Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) meeting, saying that the Philippines is playing blind and deaf to the urgency...
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