The 7 th Conference of the Parties (COP7) of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins on 29 October in Marrakech, Morocco. The Framework Convention was agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, and has been ratified by 186 countries.
Greenpeace sets up live video link between Kilimanjaro and international climate talks in Morocco
Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the few places in the world where ice and snow can be found on the equator, could lose its entire ice field by 2015 because of global warming, Greenpeace said today. This loss symbolises the fact that global warming may be felt first and hardest by the environment and people of Africa.
Australia, Canada, Russia and Japan are attempting to undermine the landmark Kyoto Protocol, by watering down its language and exploiting loopholes, Greenpeace warned as climate negotiations resumed today in Morocco. Greenpeace are concerned that these countries must not be allowed to weaken the Protocol further after the US walked away from the vital agreement reached in Bonn in July.
Governments at international climate negotiations underway in Morocco are being asked today to support an ambitious project to help tackle poverty and fight climate change, by providing renewable energy to more than two billion people globally.
The Stop Esso campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the US based oil company changes their stand on global warming.
Year by year we see more devastating floods, droughts, storms, melting icecaps and dying coral reefs around the world. Global warming is to blame. And UN scientists have agreed that pollution from fossil fuels is the main cause.
ESSO doesn't give a damn about global warming. The biggest oil-company in the world, Esso (Exxon Mobil):
PRETEND global warming isn't happening
Do more than any other company to keep the USA hooked on oil fuelling President Bush's war
Spend millions on DIRTY TRICKS to gain the favour of politicians such as Bush, to discredit climate science and to sabotage international climate negotiations such as Kyoto
Invest NOTHING in renewable energy or green fuels such as bio-diesel
Posted by bex — 3 November 2001 at 9:00am
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Stop Esso Day: copyright Alex Snelling
On the first Stop Esso day, in villages, towns and cities across the UK and Ireland, over 3000 people peacefully and legally campaigned at Esso petrol stations.
They spent the day handing out leaflets and stickers, explaining to motorists and passers-by why they should join in boycotting Esso. There were even several Esso tigers roaming around, keeping the kids entertained.
Motorists were shocked to hear about Esso's dirty tricks and many vowed not to buy from Esso again.
Posted by bex — 30 October 2001 at 9:00am
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Earth from space
Greenpeace has always fought to defend the atmosphere from industrial pollution.
From the early 1980s, we confronted factories across Europe and North America who were causing acid rain and documented its effects: dead lakes and forests and acid-eroded historic buildings.
Greenpeace also launched an international campaign to halt the depletion of the ozone layer. In 1992 Greenpeace scientists developed Greenfreeze, a refrigeration technology that uses hydrocarbons in place of ozone-eating CFCs and climate-busting HCFCs and HFCs. Greenfreeze was the world's first refrigerator technology which is safe both for the ozone layer and the climate and it has spread like wildfire throughout Western Europe and to other parts of the world.
The majority of the world's carbon pollution comes from oil products like petrol and diesel. We can avoid a runaway greenhouse effect but only if we break our addiction to fossil fuels and make the transition to an economy run on renewable energy and hydrogen.
Fossil fuel use is already changing our climate. The arctic ice cap has already thinned from 10ft to 6ft in the last 20 years as a result of warmer seas. Scientists predict that the entire polar ice cap could disappear every summer within the next 50 years....
