Paulo's amazing work in the Amazon has been recognised by the UN
Paulo Adario, who heads up our Amazon campaign, may not be your archetypal hero (we’ve never seen him don a pair of tights) but we’re proud to announce that he has just been awarded the honour of Forest Hero by the UN.
Google takes the top spot, but there's still more to be done on climate issues across the technology industry
The tussle for the top of our Cool IT leaderboard has taken its latest twist, with Google grabbing the top spot ahead of 20 other technology companies, including Cisco and Ericsson.
The advert is a follow-up to last year’s Little Darth one
which we lampooned to reveal the Dark Side of VW’s environmental claims. It
still riffs on a Star Wars theme and throws in a cute dog for good measure, but
is there any mention of supporting ambitious climate laws?
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Our VW campaign has passed a significant milestone, as the Jedi ranks swell to over 500,000. That's an incredible half a million people demanding that Volkswagen gets behind the sort of climate laws we need to save our planet.
So thank you for signing up, recruiting your friends and keeping up the pressure on VW - it's been absolutely amazing.
Tuna giant Bolton says it will be '100% sustainable' by 2017, but how?
After the huge success of our UK tinned
tuna campaign, described by the Independent
as "one of the most successful environmental campaigns in years", it was great
to hear a big European tuna brand - Bolton commit to completely clean up its act.
Senegalese fisherman join Greenpeace campaigners in defending fish stocks from industrial trawlers
In the run up to the Senegalese presidential elections, Youssou N’dour isn’t the only controversial show on the road. Last week, a caravan tour organised by the small-scale fishing sector and our colleagues in Greenpeace Africa, called on presidential candidates to take urgent action against foreign super trawlers.
Greenpeace protesters at EDF Evolutionary Power Reactor in France
Despite the growing shift of support away from nuclear energy in
Europe, EDF is stubbornly pushing forward plans to build a new nuclear
reactor
in the UK, without sufficient consideration for all the relevant risks.
The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new
report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of
the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.
I’ve passed north of the polar circle on our trip visiting the west coast of Greenland. The temperature has dropped to -15C: snow is mounting outside my window and in the beautiful harbour city Sisimiut the fjord is filled with ice. At night time, the northern lights are dancing in the sky to the distant howling from the town’s sledge dogs. This wolf-like dog is only allowed north of the Arctic Circle. In a few days, I will be debating oil drilling at the local college – a college that focuses specifically on minerals and petroleum.
Rubbish piled up on the barren ground of the tar sands outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
President Obama has just said no to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Despite a fierce lobbying campaign by oil companies and by Canada's Harper government, Obama spiked the pipeline - in part thanks to an unprecedented and global grassroots uprising.
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