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Gazprom wants to build a gas pipeline through a unique nature reserve
As if fossil fuels weren’t bad enough already. Now Gazprom wants to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline through the unique Kurgalsky Nature Reserve.
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Samsung: fuelling climate change
As extreme weather increases, the world is being forced to wake up to the realities of climate change. The good news is that every day more and more people are coming together, taking action to ensure a greener future for us all.
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ING Bank on the hook for not reporting climate pollution
Amsterdam, 14 November 2017 - Today, a climate complaint against ING filed by Greenpeace Netherlands, Oxfam, BankTrack and Milieudefensie for violating OECD guidelines, was accepted by a Dutch representative of the OECD. The Dutch bank will be investigated by the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP) for having no plan to report on and reduce the…
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Filipino typhoon survivors demand climate action on Haiyan anniversary
Tacloban, Philippines, 7 November 2017 - With the UN climate talks underway in Bonn, and as the Philippines is preparing for the visit of President Trump for the upcoming ASEAN Summit, Filipinos are gathering to commemorate the fourth anniversary of super typhoon Haiyan, the most devastating storm to ever make landfall in history.
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5 reasons why coal is on the way out
While some politicians – ahem, Trump! – are trying to prop up the fossil fuel industry, there’s been a quiet revolution happening around the world. People are ditching coal –…
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Fukushima survivor submits evidence to UN over Japanese government human rights abuses
Geneva, 12 October 2017 - Fukushima survivor Ms. Sonoda will testify today on the ongoing human rights abuses of Fukushima victims, and the ever-present risk nuclear power plants pose to the communities that live near them, at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Activists around Europe #RiseUp for a cleaner future
It was only two years ago when, during the Paris Climate Conference, we displayed our first giant Sun in Paris to demand that our world leaders tackle climate change by replacing dirty fossil fuels with clean renewable energy.
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Japan nuclear regulator approves first TEPCO reactors since Fukushima disaster
Tokyo, 4 October 2017 - Japan’s nuclear regulator today granted preliminary safety approval for two Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reactors at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant despite widespread public opposition. These are the first TEPCO reactors to receive approval since the nuclear disaster at the TEPCO operated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Nuclear power and the collapse of society
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…