All articles by Greenpeace East Asia
-
5 ways the climate crisis will change Asia
The scenes are now all too common. Millions forced to flee their homes as flash floods create rivers that surge along city streets in Japan; the vulnerable rushed to the…
-
Extreme Temperatures on the Rise in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul
Scorching temperatures are becoming much more frequent in cities across East Asia, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace East Asia.
-
For China’s post-COVID stimulus, big gaps in how much each province got, how they spent it: data
A province-by-province analysis of China’s post-COVID economic stimulus done by Greenpeace East Asia shows a widening split between provinces leading in the post-Covid green recovery and those lagging behind, especially coal-dependent provinces, with disparities in the amount of fiscal stimulus package and how they spent aid money.
-
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.
-
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…
-
Are the seas really rising?
Terrifying scenarios of coastal cities submerged underwater have long been seen as an impending consequence of the climate emergency.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
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…