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Emissions trading scheme - Greenpeace reaction

Last edited 27 October 2004 at 8:00am
27 October, 2004

Commenting on the government's announcement that it will allow substantially more CO2 to be emitted by Britain under the Emissions Trading Scheme, Greenpeace Executive Director Stephen Tindale said:

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Greenpeace welcomes Russian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol

Last edited 22 October 2004 at 8:00am
22 October, 2004

Greenpeace today welcomed the long awaited decision by the Russian Parliament, the Duma, to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Russian ratification brings the number of countries who have ratified to the level required to bring the global agreement to protect the climate into law.

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Greenpeace response to Blair's climate targets

Last edited 6 May 2004 at 8:00am
6 May, 2004

Responding to the publication of the Government's National Allocation Plan for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Greenpeace Executive Director Stephen Tindale said:

"Tony Blair should have stuck to his guns. Just days after calling global warming the greatest problem we face, he's retreating in the face of a little light lobbying from business. On the same day new evidence of global warming is published, Mr Blair is sending out all the wrong signals. You have to wonder how he's going to take the really tough decisions on climate when he can't even get the easy ones right."

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Save the planet, phase out coal

Last edited 16 June 2003 at 8:00am
Greenpeace presentation at CoalTrans Asia 2003

Greenpeace presentation at CoalTrans Asia 2003

At the recent annual CoalTrans Asia 2003 gathering, Greenpeace called on the world's largest coal companies to act against the threat of global warming.


Coal accounts for over 40% of the world's annual carbon emissions. In the 20 years between 1973 and 1993, coal use around the globe rose by 36%.

The highest increase in coal consumption was in Asia - in the same period it rose by a massive 162%. In contrast, coal use in Europe registered only a 6% growth.

Scientists have identified Southeast Asia as one of the regions most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming. Yet the coal industry plans to further expand into the region. Coal imports in Southeast Asia are expected to rise by 14% per year.

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Climate conference urged - use your power to tackle poverty

Last edited 5 November 2001 at 9:00am
5 November, 2001

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.

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Global warming: the science

Last edited 30 October 2001 at 9:00am
Polar bear threatened by climate change

Polar bear threatened by climate change

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Agreement at climate talks - Now the hard work begins

Last edited 23 July 2001 at 8:00am
23 July, 2001

The international community has finally taken the long overdue second step today in the fight against global warming with the agreement of the rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol.

As a consequence Greenpeace calls upon all countries, in particular Japan, Russia, the European Union and other European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to take immediate steps to ratify the Kyoto Protocol as matter of urgency. Greenpeace called on Japan in particular to honour the Kyoto Protocol and commit to its ratification now on the basis of the Bonn agreement, and without the USA.

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Environmental effectiveness and loopholes

Last edited 19 July 2001 at 8:00am
Under threat - polar bear

Under threat - polar bear

In Kyoto in 1997 at the third Conference of the Parties (COP 3), the Kyoto Protocol was adopted. Thirty-eight industrialised countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by varying amounts with an overall reduction of 5.2% below 1990 levels by the year 2010. It also provided a series of 'flexible mechanisms' to help them achieve this.

As negotiations have proceeded it has become clear that these 'mechanisms' have become potential loopholes that, if adopted, would allow industrialised countries to do very little or nothing in the way of real emissions reduction and still appear to meet their targets.

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Japan: climate saviour or climate killer?

Last edited 16 July 2001 at 8:00am
16 July, 2001

Latest press reports say that Japan has thrown into question it's commitment to the only global agreement on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, by stating that there will be no progress at the climate meeting which starts in Bonn today. The talks stalled in the Netherlands last November as a result of US intransigence.

Greenpeace climate campaigner Stephanie Tunmore said,

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Overview to the Kyoto Protocol Negotiations in the Hague

Posted by bex — 14 November 2000 at 9:00am - Comments
dont let us drown

From the 13th-24th November the world's governments have an opportunity that may not come again. The chance to negotiate a climate treaty that will result in real reductions in polluting greenhouse gases, a crucial step towards protecting the global climate.

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