#Climate Impacts
The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Average global temperatures have risen every decade since the 1970s. Extreme weather events – droughts, floods and major typhoons – are becoming more common and destroying farmlands. China’s already stressed water resources are drying out even further. Glaciers, permafrost and sea ice are disappearing, while sea levels are rising and coral reefs dying. The impacts of climate change are already responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people every year, and damaging ecosystems
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Does clean energy make China immune to fossil fuel price shocks?
Dunhuang, Gansu Province, the photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation base on the desert after rain, July 2025. From September 19 to 23, 2025, Greenpeace and Enviro Friends co-organized the…
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Greenpeace Criticizes South Korea’s Energy Plan as a “Fossil Fuel Swap,” Demands Full Clean Energy Transition Amid Geopolitical Crisis
Following the Ministry of Climate, Energy, and Environment’s announcement of the “Energy Transition Promotion Plan” on April 6, Greenpeace East Asia has issued a response calling the government’s strategy inadequate, which risks failing to reduce the nation’s dependence on volatile fossil fuels worsened by the war on Iran.
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Greenpeace: Middle East Tensions Aren’t the Culprit to Korea’s Economic Crisis—Fossil Fuel Dependency Is
The following is a statement from Greenpeace East Asia Seoul office regarding the economic crisis triggered by the Iran war and an urgent call for the South Korean government to abandon its reliance on fossil fuels and accelerate the transition to a self-sufficient, renewable energy system.