Greenpeace is a nongovernmental environmental organisation with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US expat environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its ...
Sep 14, 2021 · A report released by Greenpeace USA today reveals how consumer goods companies like CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé are driving the expansion of plastic production and threatening the global climate and communities around the world. The report, The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Greenpeace International has ended a longrunning campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Facebook agreed to promote clean and ...
Aug 12, 2021 · On March 12, 2009, Greenpeace International announced that the construction of a new coal mine in Tomislawice had been halted. Following from a Greenpeace legal challenge in December 2008, a Polish court found possible illegalities in the project's environmental assessment process. Construction has been suspended pending an investigation.
Mar 22, 2016 · Greenpeace International. The Great Water Grab How the Coal Industry is Deepening the Global Water Crisis. Introduction. Water is essential for all .
May 21, 2021 · In addition, the agency has ruled out new oil and gas fields, after 2021, as well as new coal mines and mine extensions. ... Executive Director of Greenpeace International said:
Dec 16, 2011 · Greenpeace International has ended a longrunning campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Facebook agreed to promote clean and renewable ...
Mar 25, 2020 · LINK TO REPORT. WASHINGTON, — For the fourth year in a row, the number of coalfired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2019, according to a new report released today by Global Energy Monitor, Greenpeace International, the Sierra Club, and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. The report, Boom and Bust 2020: Tracking The Global Coal Plant Pipeline, is ...
One of the authors, Dr. Kevin Brigden, from the Greenpeace International Science Unit said: "Coal is a source of water pollution all along its lifecycle. It is highly irresponsible to tolerate damaging levels of pollution, and even more so with significant water scarcity projected in the near future due to the effects of climate change.
Oct 02, 2014 · Greenpeace International estimates that the carbon dioxide emissions from 142 of the blocks alone would amount to five years' worth of India's emissions. Greenpeace India has suggested that the decision provides Modi with the chance to make a break from increasing the country's reliance on climatebusting coalfired power generation.
Sep 17, 2021 · Climate Hope is everywhere that you are. Hope is a natural resource too. Like clean air and fresh water, it keeps us going every day. Like lush forests and pristine coasts, it restores us for tomorrow. Like too many natural resources, though, hope can feel in short supply these days, endangered by extractivist fossil fuel companies, corporate ...
Dec 20, 2011 · It's all—or at least a real whole lot—about awareness. Up until Greenpeace International launched its innovative "Unfriend Coal" campaign 20 months ago, Facebook, while feeling green for its laudable efforts to make its buildings energy efficient, had never really paid attention to the source of the energy used to power its data centers.
Sep 04, 2021 · Today, Oil Change International and over 150 other civil society organisations from all over the world sent an open letter to International Energy Agency (IEA) director Dr. Fatih Birol, urging him to center degrees Celsius (ºC) in the 2021 World Energy Outlook (WEO). The IEA is due to release the WEO in one month, on October 13, 2021.
Mar 24, 2020 · Sources: Global Energy Monitor, China Electricity Council, International Energy Agency, CNRC, CoalSwarm and Greenpeace. Chart by Carbon Brief using Highcharts . China's relatively young coal fleet, with an average age of 14 years, already faces a very short operating life if the climate pathways shown in the chart above are to be met.
Formerly strategic communiions director for the Global Call for Climate Action and a longtime media relations specialist with Greenpeace International, Greg has worked on human rights and environmental issues around the world, covering issues such as oceans, whaling, deforestation, climate change, coal mining, and nuclear power.
Sep 23, 2014 · It is now being blockaded from completing its journey, while teams of Greenpeace volunteers unload the cargo into sacks to be returned to Russia, the source of 51% of the UK's coal. And campaigners have also led a lifesized, moving polar bear puppet to the front of the train, where it .
Indian coal growth has slowed since 2015. After rising at an average of 6% over the preceding decade, India's coal consumption has risen at % a year since 2015, analysis from Greenpeace .
Feb 27, 2018 · Every time they came to Santiago — the capital of Chile — we'd join them to protest against the coal mine. Eventually, when the Greenpeace ship ... Manager for Greenpeace International.
Aug 25, 2021 · China's provinces are still planning to launch more than 100 gigawatts (GW) of new coalfired power capacity despite a decline in new approvals in the first half of 2021, environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Local planning agencies approved 24 new coalfired power plants with a total capacity of GW in the first six months of 2021, Greenpeace said.
Dec 01, 2018 · The coal industry wants to silence us but people power can't be silenced. Let's show them that people peacefully protesting against a polluting coal mine... Jump to. Sections of this page. Accessibility Help. ... Greenpeace International Videos Activism is not a crime ...