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Energy Community "Saerbeck" in North Rhine-Westfalia © Bente Stachowske / Greenpeace
Saerbeck in North Rhine Westfalia is a community which owns their own wind and solar park. 70% of the private households in Saerbeck are supplied by renewable energies.
© Bente Stachowske / Greenpeace
Climate & Energy
Sunrise Over Reef in Komodo National Park © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace
Sunrise over the reef at Kanawa Island near Flores, Indonesia. The island is located in the Komodo National Park.
© Paul Hilton / Greenpeace
Biodiversity
Climate March at COP24 in Poland.
Several thousand people marched in the Climate March at COP24 in Katowice, Poland, on December 8, 2018.
© Greenpeace
Social & Economic
Energy Community "Saerbeck" in North Rhine-Westfalia © Bente Stachowske / Greenpeace

Climate & Energy

We challenge the power of fossil fuel corporations, bolster support for renewable and citizen-powered energy and seek to hold big polluters to account.

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Climate Emergency Action at Laguna de Aculeo in Chile © Martin Katz / Greenpeace
Climate Emergency Action at Laguna de Aculeo in Chile
Climate
Herder and Sheep in Central Java. © Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace
A shepherdess watches over her flock of sheep that graze near a coal power plant in Jepara, Central Java.
© Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace
Coal
Raising a Wind Turbine in Durban. © Shayne Robinson / Greenpeace
Raising a wind turbine on the beach at dawn in Durban, South Africa.
Energy Revolution
The Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant
Construction started on the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant in the 1980s but was subsequently stopped due to financial concerns. The project restarted in the 1990s and the first two towers (2 x 470MW) were finished and brought on-line in 1998 and 1999. The next two towers are currently under construction (planned to be brought into operation in 2013/2014) but are facing a delay. The Slovak government insists in pursuing this project despite old technology and several security concerns.
© Tomas Halasz / Greenpeace
Nuclear
Defend the Amazon Reef Protest in Maranhão, Brazil
Greenpeace activists in Maranhão, Brazil, protest against TOTAL’s plans to drill near the Amazon Reef and illustrate the risks of an oil spill in the region. The aim of this action is to raise awareness amongst TOTAL customers about the risks of drilling in such a sensitive area, less than 30 km away from the reef. This global day of action is part of a campaign led by Greenpeace since the Amazon Reef was revealed in 2016 and photographed for the first time this year. An expedition undertaken by the organization in January 2017 with a team of scientists captured the first underwater images of the reef. But there is still so much to discover. According to scientists, only 5% of the reef has been explored.
© Cynthia Carvalho / Greenpeace
Oil

Biodiversity

Focusing on great global forests and oceans we aim to preserve, protect and restore the most valuable ecosystems for the climate and for biodiversity.

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Sunrise Over Reef in Komodo National Park © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace

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© NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Lorenzo twice in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean to obtain a full picture, stitched together, of the large storm.
© NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
Extreme Weather
Australia's Bushfires Continue to Burn. © Kiran Ridley / Greenpeace
Tony Weston, 62, a Rural Fire Service volunteer firefighter sprays trees on fire on the outskirts of the small town of Numeralla in New South Wales.
© Kiran Ridley / Greenpeace
Fires
Fruits Produced in the Cerrado Biome, Brazil. © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
The Cerrado biome is a very diverse and vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil. It contains forests, plains, savannas and huge amount of natural resources. For centuries, local traditional populations have been living in its fields and plains without destroying the natural landscape, sourcing their livelihood from all its richness. But the agribusiness expansion movement is risking its survival and the availability of natural resources, causing conflicts over land and even water.
© Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
Food
Haller Forest in Belgium © Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
Haller forest in Belgium. Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides) in beech forest.
© Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
Forests
Boy with Tuna Fish Stands in Sea © Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
8 years old Tokabwebwe Teinaura from the village Te O Ni Beeki, helping the fishermen carrying a yellowfin tuna to the shore on Tarawa Island, Kiribati.
© Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
Oceans
Climate March at COP24 in Poland.

Social & Economic

We want to tear apart the way corporations and governments collude to make a profit at the expense of both people and planet.

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Kilninian Beach Clean-up Activity on Mull Island in Scotland. © Will Rose / Greenpeace
Greenpeace and MCS (Marine Conservation Society) Mull Beach Clean at Kilninian Beach with pupils from Ulver Primary School, Isle Of Mull. Greenpeace has brought its ship the Beluga II on an expedition of scientific research around Scotland, sampling seawater for microplastics and documenting the impact of ocean plastic on some of the UK’s most precious marine life.
© Will Rose / Greenpeace
Consumption
Air Pollution Protest in Bangkok. © Wason Wanichakorn / Greenpeace
Greenpeace Thailand together with EnLaw, EARTH, BioThai, Foundation for Consumers, Friend Zone, Mayday, Climate Strike Thailand and civil society march to the office of the public sector development commission to submit a demand letter to the Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha to take urgent steps to combat the PM2.5 levels in Thailand’s air.
© Wason Wanichakorn / Greenpeace
Health
MSF and Greenpeace Launch Life Saving Operations in the Aegean Sea. © Will Rose / MSF / Greenpeace
The Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) and Greenpeace crew are making sure that people who are risking their lives on the dangerous sea crossing between Turkey and Greece, arrive safely at shore.
© Will Rose / MSF / Greenpeace
Peace
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