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  • Every time we ask a question to #ChatGPT, is it harming our planet? Each ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times more power than a simple Google search. The electricity used by data centers is staggering, and emissions from AI chip manufacturing are rising rapidly.
    Stories
    Climate Coal Oil

    The true cost of AI romance:  A 4.5-fold increase in emissions in one year

    Recall the scene from the film Her (2013) when Theodore meets his AI lover, Samantha, in the cloud and they embark on a romance through endless conversations. While this fantastical…

    Avex Li •
    28 Apr 2025
    3 min read
  • Protest March against Gas Industry in Vienna. © Rafael Bittermann / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution Oil Coal

    Fossil fuels are a threat to our security – here’s 6 reasons why

    About 80% of the world’s energy still comes from fossil fuels. This reliance is a huge risk for us. Not just because gas, oil and coal are fuelling the climate crisis.

    Manon Laudy •
    25 Apr 2025
    4 min read
  • Projection Photo Booth with Climate Impacts at COP29 in Baku. © Marie Jacquemin / Greenpeace
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    Climate Coal ExtremeWeather

    G7 countries overshoot own climate targets; spend record sums on fossil fuel subsidies 

    The G7 group of industrialised nations has overshot self-imposed targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2025, instead subsidising climate-damaging fossil fuels by record amounts

    Greenpeace International •
    3 Feb 2025
    2 min read
  • Park Wildfires in California. © David McNew / Greenpeace
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    EnergyRevolution ExtremeWeather Fires Oil Coal Climate

    ‘Hell of a year’: Greenpeace comments on hottest year on record, the first to exceed 1.5°C 

    Reacting to the 2024 Global Climate highlights report by the WMO, Copernicus, Met Office, NASA, and other global climate monitoring organizations showing new climate extremes reached in 2024

    Greenpeace International •
    10 Jan 2025
    2 min read
  • Coal Protest at Adaro Office in Jakarta. © Veri Sanovri / Greenpeace
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    Climate Coal COP29

    Too little, too late: G7 climate commitments fall short

    Leaders of the G7 countries made a commitment to phase out coal by 2035. In the growing climate crisis, this is simply too little, too late.

    Greenpeace International •
    30 Apr 2024
    2 min read
  • Hendrina Power Station in Mpumalanga. © Ruth Sacco / Greenpeace
    Press Releases
    EnergyRevolution Coal Health

    Major polluters exposed: Fossil fuel industry a top source of Africa’s air pollution reveals new Greenpeace report

    Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa have emerged as Africa’s most polluted countries in terms of air pollution disease burden, a report prepared by Greenpeace Africa and Greenpeace MENA reveals.

    Greenpeace International •
    28 Mar 2024
    3 min read
  • Greenpeace Indonesia projecting a message on a hill, before G20 Summit at Melasti beach in Bali that reads: A Just Energy Transition. © Greenpeace
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    COP28 Coal

    Greenpeace reaction to IEA report: The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions

    This IEA report shows that if governments continue to sit back and let every oil company try to be the last one standing, then we all lose.

    Greenpeace International •
    23 Nov 2023
    1 min read
  • Activists scale the 60-metre high excavator at the mine in Bílina, Czechia, with a banner reading ‘End Mining 2030’ in Czech to protest against the extension of the life of the coal mine until at least 2035 - creating a minimum of five extra years of climate-destroying emissions.
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    Climate Coal

    BREAKING: Greenpeace activists climb coal excavator to protest against Czech mine extension

    Greenpeace wants to put a bright spotlight on the imminent climate destruction at Bílina. ČEZ's intention to prolong the life of this mine will create climate shockwaves across Europe and the wider world if it is not stopped.

    Greenpeace International •
    22 Jun 2023
    3 min read
  • Windfall Tax Action in Vienna
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution Coal Oil

    4 ways fossil fuel companies are worsening injustice during the energy crisis

    Since the very beginning of their existence, fossil fuel companies have been destroying the lives and livelihoods of whole communities, polluting and lying just so they could keep making profits.

    Lisa Göldner •
    16 Feb 2023
    7 min read
  • Village Walk Protest to the Lignite mine
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    Climate Coal

    Greta Thunberg among thousands protesting against Garzweiler carbon bomb in Lützerath, Germany

    Today, thousands of concerned citizens from diverse countries, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, have travelled to the small German village of Lützerath in solidarity with climate activists who are currently trying to stop this area being demolished to access the coal in the ground underneath it. Activists who have been occupying this village for two…

    Greenpeace International •
    14 Jan 2023
    3 min read
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