NGOs urge Blair not to turn his back on climate change
11 November, 2005Leading Non-Government Organisations - including Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, the Women's Institute and Worldwide Fund for Nature - have written to Tony Blair urging him not to...
View ArticleKyoto protocol stronger after Montreal meeting
World at last taking threat seriously, despite Bush"How often does one walk into one of these things and come out at the end of it at six in the morning with just about everything you asked for coming...
View ArticleGeorge Bush: Mugging the G8
Written by John Sauven for Comment is Free.So this is it. After years of denial, evasion and hostility George Bush has finally been forced to play defence on climate change. It’s good news, right? Tony...
View ArticleChina: number one climate polluter?
By our executive director John Sauven, for Comment is Free.The news today that China is maybe the world's number one CO2 polluter should come as no surprise. But responsibility for China's soaring...
View ArticleBeating about the bush, yet again
So, no surprises last week as George Bush's climate change summit ended up being pretty much what everyone expected it would - a futile and elitist talking shop which was a vain attempt for the...
View ArticleBali: now big business demands action on climate change
A replacement to the Kyoto treaty will be thrashed out in Bali next week.In an unprecedented move, 150 leading businesses from across the planet have come together today to demand bold action on...
View ArticleBali: a road map or a dead end?
Last night, on the tenth anniversary of the most far-reaching environmental treaty ever signed, Ban Ki-Moon said:"Today we are at the crossroads; one path leading towards a comprehensive new climate...
View ArticleUS trying to destroy international efforts to save the climate
Our colleagues have been leaked information from a meeting in Bali tonight – the US is trying to destroy international efforts to tackle climate change. They are trying to insert text into the Kyoto...
View ArticleLeaked Bali document reveals U.S. efforts to sink new global climate agreement
13 December, 2007An extraordinary document leaked to Greenpeace in Bali this evening reveals that the United States is trying to destroy international efforts to tackle climate change.The Bush...
View ArticleHeating up in Bali
The sparks are flying in Bali as the talks enter the final round. After the US tried to derail the negotiations, Al Gore took the stage and lambasted the Bush Administration for blocking...
View ArticleHeading for hell and high water in the US
US climate change policy will deliver hell and high water© Greenpeace/Bill Auth Last night, a day after George Bush's final State of the Union speech, Greenpeace volunteers in the US used one of their...
View ArticleDon't panic: Bush has a cunning climate plan
Less than a year after the IPCC warned the world that global emissions need to peak within the next 10 years (and then fall sharply), Bush - with much fanfare - has unveiled his new, cunning climate...
View ArticleActivists urge Italy to quit coal
As the Rainbow Warrior arrives here to embark on the UK leg of of her worldwide "Quit Coal" tour, activists from another of our ships, Arctic Sunrise, have been busy putting coal in the hot seat in...
View ArticleWhere are our leaders letting us down?
Earlier this week more than 20 Greenpeace volunteers climbed the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to tell governments meeting here ahead of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen to "save the climate"....
View ArticleAs Canada protects the polluters, the people hold the key to stopping tar...
With the decision by Canada to pull out of the Kyoto protocol, it's clear that the Canadian government cares more about protecting the polluters (particularly the tar sands industry) than the people....
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