All articles by Greenpeace East Asia
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Greenpeace maps growing climate risk from extreme weather in China’s major cities
A new report from Greenpeace East Asia analyzed climate risk from extreme heat and rainfall across the major metropolitan regions around Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou-Shenzhen,¹ finding risk is now highest in dense city centers but is growing faster for urbanizing communities on the outskirts.
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HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S 2050 RE100 DECLARATION– GREENPEACE COMMENT
Hyundai Motor Group has announced that they will join the #RE100 initiative & achieve 100% renewable by 2050. This is good news, but on average RE100 corporations are aiming to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2028, a full 22 years earlier than Hyundai. Hyundai must #AccelerateChange and phase out polluting internal combustion engines as quickly…
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Are the seas really rising?
Terrifying scenarios of coastal cities submerged underwater have long been seen as an impending consequence of the climate emergency.
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Electricity consumption from China’s digital sector on track to increase 289% by 2035: Greenpeace
Electricity consumption from data centers and 5G base stations in China is on track to increase by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035, new research shows.
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A Quick Read on the radioactive water in Fukushima – What makes it different?
Here, we will provide some details on this issue from a scientific perspective, to demonstrate why the move to discharge contaminated water in Fukushima is of major concern internationally.
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Tencent beats out Alibaba, Baidu in Greenpeace’s China tech industry ranking
BEIJING, 21 April, 2021 – Tencent took the top spot among cloud providers in Greenpeace East Asia’s latest clean energy scorecard for China’s tech sector, beating out Alibaba, which fell…
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When the climate crisis strikes home
Covid-19 is not the only crisis we had to deal with this past winter. Huge areas of the northern hemisphere were in the grip of a brutal winter that left people without electricity, cars piled up, and homes snowed in. Texas went into an unprecedented deep freeze while record snowfalls in Japan left more than…
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People power! A milestone set to curb plastic: ParknShop announced further plastic reduction commitment
People power! A milestone set to curb plastic: ParknShop announced further plastic reduction commitment
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Greenpeace Warns of High Risk for Further Waves of New Coal Plant Approvals in China
New research from Greenpeace East Asia found that 46.1 gigawatts (GW) of new coal capacity was approved in 2020 -- more than the previous three years combined -- with 12 provinces or autonomous regions pushing through new coal plants after the central government’s Net Zero climate commitments, with about 8.1 GW approved in the fourth…
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Sandstorm spreads across East Asia, bringing orange skies and choking air pollution
On the morning of March 15, residents of Beijing awoke to their city shrouded in a suffocating orange haze, as winds carried a massive sandstorm thousands of kilometers from Mongolia.…