Ending the climate crisis

We’re in a climate emergency and the oil, gas, and coal industry is to blame.

Our climate is in crisis

Scientists are shouting an urgent warning: We have little more than a decade to take bold, ambitious action to transition our economy off of coal, oil, and gas, and onto safe and green renewable energy. Shifting to cleaner, locally-run energy will not only slow the tide of climate catastrophe, it’ll create millions of new jobs that sustain families while protecting community health.

For the last decade, many elected leaders and corporations have claimed to care about our future, but have done little more than say they believe climate change is real. Those talking points don’t cut it anymore.

It’s time to put people above the fossil fuel industry and truly act on climate.

Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Texas. © Aaron M. Sprecher / Greenpeace
Protests against Oil and Gas Companies in Budapest. © Zsuzsi Dorgo / Greenpeace

The time is now

With enough pressure, we can push leaders to start responsibly phasing out coal, oil, and gas while prioritizing support for disadvantaged communities and workers most affected by moving to a safer, more caring economy. Together we can also make sure that communities impacted by extreme climate impacts will have everything they need to recover in a way that supports sustainable and livable communities, and holds fossil fuel executives accountable. True climate action also means that giant multinational corporations like Amazon need to invest in locally-run renewable energy to power their operations instead of dirty, dangerous energy production.

We deserve a world where everyone can thrive without worrying about their health, finances, or pollution.

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Excessive Heat Wave in West Coast, California. © David McNew / Greenpeace
Signage cautions drivers of extreme heat danger as an excessive heatwave continues on July 9, 2024 in Death Valley National Park. Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. French, Spanish, English and Swiss tourists left their air-conditioned rental cars this week to take photographs of the barren landscape so different than the snow-capped mountains and rolling green hills they know back home. American adventurers liked the novelty of it, even as officials at the park in California warned visitors to stay safe. A blistering California heat wave over the past week could be topped off by the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. That kind of extreme heat has led to more deaths than wildfires and cost billions of dollars over a decade, according to the state insurance department.
© David McNew / Greenpeace
California climate emergency
Satellite Image of Hurricane Harvey. © NASA Earth Observatory
When Hurricane Harvey blows ashore over coastal Texas on Friday night, it will likely be the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of the rapidly intensifying storm at 11:24 a.m. Central time (16:45 Universal Time) on August 24, 2017. The National Hurricane Center expects Harvey to be a category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale—with winds higher than 111 miles (179 kilometers) per hour—when it makes landfall. It will likely produce a storm surge of 6 to 12 feet (2 to 4 meters) and drop between 15 and 25 inches (38 and 63 centimeters) of rain in some areas—enough to produce life-threatening flash floods.
© NASA Earth Observatory
Extreme weather
Oil Spil in Rayong, Thailand. © Chanklang Kanthong / Greenpeace
The crude oil slick washed up on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong province, Thailand after it leaked from an undersea pipeline owned by Chevron’s Star Petroleum Refining Public Company Limited (SPRC). SPRC must be held accountable and liable not only for cleaning up oil pollution contamination, but also for disclosing to the public in a concise and transparent manner information on the scope of the oil spill and its negative impacts on the marine ecosystem, coastal fishing community, and tourism. Greenpeace Thailand urges the Thai government to form an independent committee to investigate the oil pollution disaster, to urgently review the National Energy Plan in order to break free from fossil fuels, and to halt plans to expand oil and fossil gas industry, which endangers livelihoods, the natural environment, and communities who bear the brunt of environmental impacts and climate crises.
© Chanklang Kanthong / Greenpeace
Fossil fuel phase-out
Polar Bears Wait for Winter Migration. © Robert Visser / Greenpeace
A polar bear with two juveniles near Churchill, Manitoba. A report by Ian Sterling with the Canadian Wildlife Service links a decline in the weight of adult polar bears in the western Hudson Bay area to global warming. © Robert Visser / Greenpeace
The Arctic