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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Renee, a young climate activist and vegetarian
Climate change is here, and it’s causing a wide range of impacts. As global citizens, we should not ignore the crisis we are in. Yet sometimes if not all, we…
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How Greenpeace is campaigning in Asia for the climate
n the face of global challenges in 2020, we need to work more closely together to expose the roots of the problems and hidden truths while confronting climate emergencies. Read…
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Vanishing Winter: Hong Kong and the world must act on Climate in the World Economic Forum
Nature is sending us warnings through our climate. From the devastating Australia forest fires to the recent severe floods in and around Jakarta, extreme weather and its impact hit the…
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7 Questions about COP25
The 25th United Nation Climate Change Conference (COP25) was held from 2-13 December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. With so many and increasing conferences about climate change every year, what impacts would and could this biggest meeting in global scale make to ease climate emergency and how do we in Hong Kong connect to it? You…
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 2-Recommendations 1
If concern alone would trigger climate action, present awareness and concern levels of climate change by the middle class people around the world , would be sufficient to achieve the political and societal changes necessary. However scientists increasingly point to natural cognitive processes like ambivalence, anxieties and denial, triggered by the very concern about global…
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 1_ Scientific Theories
For more than 35 years scientists have been advocating that the psychological impact of both Global Warming and the way it is reported needs to be considered when designing campaigns to change people's perceptions, attitudes and behaviours to support climate policy and change to more sustainable life-styles. Such cultural change is a must in order…
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Top 5 trends to keep your hopes up on climate
If you struggle to keep your chin up on climate change, we don’t blame you. To limit global warming within 1.5°C, climate scientists have urged us to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. But with world leaders showing no strong will to deal with the issue, it’s not helping.
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Greenpeace survey reveals impact of climate change on glaciers in China
Beijing, 20 November, 2018 -- The rate of glacier melt at key sites in western China has increased dramatically in recent decades, new research from Greenpeace East Asia shows. Satellite data shows rapid glacier retreat at locations in Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang, and reveals how glacier melt caused two major disasters in western China over…
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Glacial lake in western China bursts, annual average temperatures in area up 2 to 3 °C since 1961
Beijing, 15 August, 2018 - A glacial lake in Xinjiang, China burst in the early morning of August 10, releasing 35 million m³ of floodwater into the Yarkant River Basin. [1] Xinhua has reported evacuations in the nearby area. [2] The frequency of glacial outbursts in the Yarkant River Basin has increased since the 1980s…
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Oil tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil on fire off China coast – Greenpeace response
Beijing, 8 January 2018 - In response to the collision of the Sanchi oil tanker and the cargo ship CF Crystal in the East China Sea on Sunday, Greenpeace expresses concern about the safety of the 32 missing crew members.
