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Posted on June 22nd, 2009
Greenpeace exposes the lack of security on top of the reactor dome of Unterweser nuclear power station
Greenpeace activists peacefully protesting on the reactor dome of Unterweser nuclear power plant to expose the lack of security in the event of a plane crash or an airborne terrorist attack. Activists painted a skull surrounded by the symbol for radioactivity. The banner reads:” Nuclear power damages Germany”.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009
Greenpeace – Yes Men spoof newspaper declares climate deal
Readers of a free copy of the International Herald Tribune in Brussels today may have done a double take when they saw headlines like “Markets Soar on News of Copenhagen Climate Deal” and “Atmosphere Named World Heritage Site.” That’s because the newspaper, datelined six months into the future, was brought to them by Greenpeace and the Yes Men.
Unbeknownst to the folks over at the International Herald Tribune, we created the hopeful hoax and distributed 50,000 copies of the paper outside of metro stops and street cafes in major cities from New York to Beijing to Brussels. (Along with a complimentary copy and a bottle of champagne to the chief editor of the real International Herald Tribune) The headline read “Heads of State Agree Historic Climate Saving Deal.” So maybe we haven’t actually seen our leaders stand up and take responsibility for leading the global community in the fight to a climate deal; we can’t help but ask ourselves “Why not?”
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Posted on June 17th, 2009
Greenpeace set up camp in front of the minister’s office to question green investment scheme
Greenpeace activists from all over the Central and Eastern European region put up their tents in front of the building of the Prime Minister’s Office in Budapest to wait for the launch of the Green Investment Scheme. They wanted to draw attention to the mystery around the emissions quota income and the continuous delay of the launch of the Scheme.
“The Hungarian Green Investment Scheme can be very important in advocating energy efficiency and renewables, therefore it can significantly contribute to the fight against climate change. If our decision makers hesitate in making this money available, they practically steal money from the climate.”- said Barbara Stoll, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Hungary.
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Posted on May 31st, 2009
Major brands implicated in Amazon destruction
A new Greenpeace report on a three-year undercover investigation into Brazil’s booming cattle industry, the single largest source of deforestation in the world and Brazil’s main source of CO2 emissions (1), has found that top food, sports and fashion brands are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. It shows how the Brazilian government is complicit in bankrolling the destruction and is undermining efforts to tackle the global climate crisis. This went live on the evening of 31 May in Brazil just in time for the opening of the Bonn2 talks.
Lär mer: Major brands implicated in Amazon destruction
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Posted on May 27th, 2009
Greenpeace International launches the Cool IT Challenge – Amsterdam, Netherlands
The first Cool IT ranking is released by Greenpeace International. As a fun way of getting people to support the Cool IT Project and to influence the CEOs of companies, a new web page was launched. Have a look and cast your vote at: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it-challenge.
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Posted on May 23rd, 2009
Greenpeace New Zealand launches ‘Sign on’ campaign – Auckland, New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand launched its public mobilisation campaign for Copenhagen on Saturday 23rd of May. The launch which featured 12 of their 17 high profile sign on ambassadors achieved great media coverage in New Zealand. This is the softer side of the campaign and in the coming months they will be engaging New Zealand’s major greenhouse gas emitters more directly.
Besök sajten: www.signon.org.nz
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Posted on May 21st, 2009
Greenpeace activists dress as windmills to get parliament to act on climate change
The day before the new Indian Cabinet was announced, Greenpeace activists dressed as three huge windmills, holding speech bubbles that saying “Strong Leadership for MNRE”, urged the young turks of the parliament to stand up to the 21st century challenge of taking climate change by the horns and making India a prosperous nation in terms of Renewable Energy Revolution. The action was carried out in front of Janpath 10, THE residence that has been in the nations eyes since the beginning of the election; which is also the residence of Sonia Gandhi. Due to the action, a meeting has been secured with Gandhi and her senior advisors.
Läs mer: http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/releases/young-mps-lead-renewable-energy
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Posted on May 12th, 2009
Greenpeace activists protest against state owned Neste Oil’s use of palm oil -- Porvoo, Finland
32 Greenpeace activists from Finland and Sweden deployed banners on RIBs and painted part of the Neste Oil palm oil diesel refinery in Porvoo, Finland. Neste Oil is an oil refining company largely owned by the Finnish government and set to become the world’s largest consumer of palm oil.
Läs mera om aktionen här: http://www.greenpeace.org/sweden/nyheter/greenpeaceaktivister-protester
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Posted on May 12th, 2009
Protest against Statoil investments in tar sands – Stockholm, Sweden
Only about a week away from Statoil’s AGM, Greenpeace activists protested against the company’s investment in the dirty tar sands of Canada outside their Swedish office. Greenpeace, as a shareholder of Statoil, tabled a demand for the company to stop investing in dirty energy. The demand was discussed at the AGM and unfortunately, not carried.Visit the tar sands website:
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Posted on May 6th, 2009
Greenpeace activists projected ‘No Coal’ messages onto coal power station ‘Loy Yang A’ – Latrobe Valley, Australia
Greenpeace activists projected giant messages onto one of the cooling towers at ‘Loy Yang A’- one of Victoria’s largest coal-fired power stations. It was a timely post-budget reminder that at least $7 billion of Australian taxpayer dollars are spent each year needlessly encouraging the use of fossil fuels.Läs mera här: http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/loyyang-070509
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Posted on April 27th, 2009
Greenpeace USA protest at Obamas MEF meeting
As representatives from the world’s 17 biggest economies/emitters met at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Greenpeace activists and the new Greenpeace USA executive director, Phil Radford, climbed a crane across the street to hang a banner with a picture of Earth and the message “Too Big to Fail”
Read more here: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/planet-earth-too-big-to-fail
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009
Greenpeace US install wind turbines on the Michigan Ave. bridge
Greenpeace US celebrated Earth Day by installing wind turbines on the Michigan Ave. bridge in “the Windy City,” Chicago, IL.
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Posted on April 5th, 2009
Bannerhanging – Obama challenge, Prague, Czech Rep.
Just as US President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of thousands in Prague on Sunday, Greenpeace activists unveiled a banner urging him to lead the change on climate, a challenge Obama accepted in his speech (let’s wait and see if this transpires into action).
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Posted on April 1st, 2009
Bannerhanging: Rio De Janeiro
Fifteen activists unfurled a 50 meter (164 feet) x 30 meter (98 feet) banner from the bridge at the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The message was for the leaders of the richest nations in the world who were gathering in London for the G20 meeting to discuss the global economic crisis.En lista över utvalda Greenpeaceaktioner relaterade till klimatmötet hittar du här.
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Posted on March 19th, 2009
Forest protest in Jakarta, Indonesia
Twenty five activists were brutally kicked and punched when they peacefully protested at the headquarters of Indonesia’s largest logging and palm oil company, the Sinar Mas Group. The activity was to highlight the fact that Sinar Mas and the Indonesian government continue their bad forestry practices in the face of Climate Change and forest protection.
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Posted on March 15th, 2009
Bannerhanging: “If the world were a bank, you’d bail it out” -- Frankfurt, Germany
In advance to the EU Heads of State Spring Summit Greenpeace Germany activists hung a 12 x 13 m banner at the 155m high tower of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt saying “If the world were a bank, you’d bail it out” . Police and fire-rescue specialists for rescue from height arrived very fast and asked Greenpeace to leave the building. After long discussions they decided that it is safer to let the activists stay in place rather than trying to get them down. Result: climbers and banner stayed in place for 7 hours. Video of the action (in German):
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Posted on March 10th, 2009
Hundreds of activists shut in the Finance Ministers from EU Member States
On Tuesday 10 March hundreds of Greenpeace activists from across Europe blocked the exits of the building where Finance Ministers from EU Member States were discussing funding for developing nations to tackle climate change. The activists sealed the building and refused to let the politicians leave until they committed to ‘Save the Climate’ and ‘Bail out the Planet’. Of course the police were quick in responding, very quick in fact, and after two hours all activists had been removed and 357 had been arrested. Security was high, not only because it was a Ministers meeting, but also because US Vice President Biden was to join the Ministers for lunch. All arrested were released later in the day.In all 20 offices sent activists and campaigners (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, UK) and EDs from Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and Nordic also participated.
Unfortunately, the Finance Ministers were very week in their recommendations to EU leaders. Although they recognized the need for funds from rich countries, including the EU, to go to developing nations they did not propose concrete public financial support for climate action and instead made an empty promise for investments from the private sector, which they can neither predict nor control.
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Posted on March 9th, 2009
Homeless polar bear arrives in Madrid
A homeless polar bear arrived in Madrid to work with Greenpeace Spain. The bear delivered the Greenpeace Finance Policy to both the Environment and Finance ministries. Although allowed to enter the Finance Ministry building the bear was refused permission to enter the Environment Ministry as they have a policy that ‘animals are not permitted’.If you want to know more check out Oso the polar bear at:
Blog: http://greenpeaceblong.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/polar/
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Posted on March 7th, 2009
Bannerhanging, Salvador, Brazil
As part of the MY Arctic Sunrise tour of Brazil a 40m x 8m banner was displayed on one of Brazil’s landmark buildings. The banner showed the threat of sea level rise.
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Posted on April 24th, 2008
Greenpeace activists let it all hang out at Premier’s fundraising dinner
Greenpeace activists delivered a clear message to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, dropping from the ceiling above the annual Edmonton Premier’s Dinner as he was delivering his fundraising speech, unveiling a banner as they descended that read: “$telmach: The Best Premier Oil Money Can Buy.”
Two climbers dangled from the catwalk, distracting the over 1000 supporters of the Alberta Conservative party, who each paid $450 to listen to Premier Stelmach speak at the dinner, held at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton. The Greenpeace protest disrupted the activity as the audience turned their attention to the activists and the hanging banner while Tory staff hurried to deal with the unexpected message.
Läs mer här.
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