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As new figures showed sales of 4x4 vehicles dipping for the first time, Greenpeace urged Tony Blair to enact proposals to tax polluting vehicles more heavily. A total of 105,196 new SUVs were sold in the first seven months of 2006 compared with 106,732 in January-July 2005.

Commenting on Royal Society President Lord Rees' call for a new "Apollo project" to fight climate change, Greenpeace campaigner Robin Oakley said:

"Lord Rees is absolutely right to call for massive funding for clean energy research. The Apollo project cost $100bn to put a man on the moon, now we face a fight to save our only planet from the ravages of climate change. The technologies already exist to slash carbon emissions, what is lacking is the political will to implement them. If our leaders invested in low-carbon energy generation on a massive scale, right now, while generously funding research to develop the next generation of technologies, that would be a giant leap for mankind."


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London mayor Ken Livingstone has joined Bill Clinton in Los Angeles to launch a pact to help major cities around the world cut greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty-two cities, including Berlin, Mexico City, New York, Paris, and Rome, have joined the Clinton Climate Initiative, which plans to help cities reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they release into the environment through methods such as a purchasing consortium to lower the prices of energy saving products.

Greenpeace publish nuclear waste train timetables for the whole of Britain

EVENING COMMUTERS at Kensington Olympia, Peckham Rye, Wandsworth Road and Denmark Hill stations were alerted today (26 July) by Greenpeace activists that the next train passing through their platform was carrying hazardous nuclear waste.

Passengers at the four stations heard the announcement, made through giant megaphones, informing them that:

Timetables for nuclear waste transports across the UK, have been published, by Greenpeace today (Friday 21st July 2006) (1). This is the first time ever this information has been made publicly available. There are over 1,000 nuclear transports through the UK every year, and the trains travel with minimal protection through commuter train centres and past hospitals, schools and back gardens. A terrorist attack or accident on a routine transport of nuclear waste in the UK could spread radiation over 100 kilometres, and cause over 8,000 deaths (2).

Reacting to the publication of the Government's energy reviewGreenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale said:

Commenting on David Cameron's speech to the Local Government Association, in which he said "the future is decentralised energy" and that nuclear power is "a last resort", Greenpeace campaigner Charlie Kronick said:

Cracked reactor cores have "increased likelihood of increased risk"

NUCLEAR POWER stations in the UK are structurally defective and their continued operation is increasing the risk of a radioactive accident, according to documents written by the government's own nuclear inspectors.

Former New Labour advisor says Blair lied to Commons committee

Reacting to Tony Blair's comments this morning in support of new nuclear power stations, Greenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale said:

"Tony Blair wants his legacy to be new nuclear power stations, but his obsession threatens to scupper this country's renewable energy industry. He wants to tie the country into a centralised energy generation system that relies on huge, inefficient, polluting power stations instead of pushing money towards clean cutting edge technologies."

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was joined by Greenpeace Director, Stephen Tindale, at his weekly press conference, to announce that he is tightening up procurement procedures at the Greater London Authority, to ensure that timber used on Greater London Authority sites has come from responsibly managed forests.