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The 'Quit Coal' tour in the Philippines
Posted by jossc on 20 June 2008.
Taking the message to the Philippines Department of Energy
Mareike, web editor aboard the Rainbow Warrior, give us an update on from the Philippines about how the 'Quit Coal' tour is progressing.
Burning coal accounts globally for over 70 per cent of CO2 pollution from power generation and is the greatest single threat to our climate.
That's why the Rainbow Warrior is on a global tour from New Zealand, via the Philippines and Thailand, to the UN climate panel meeting in Poland at the end of this year, promoting a massive uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency and the phase out of coal.
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Update: Rainbow Warrior ends peaceful protest at Pagbilao
Posted by jossc on 27 May 2008.
The Rainbow Warrior's protest at the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant in the Philippines has ended on a high note. Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri sent a message of support to the crew saying, "I will file a resolution in the Senate seeking a halt in the construction of new coal fired power plants in the country."
The action ended on the eve of the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting in Japan, where the richest industrialised countries in the world gathered at the weekend to discuss solutions to climate change. Ending the use of coal needs to top the agenda.
"Quit coal" tour gets underway in Philippines
Posted by jossc on 23 May 2008.
The crew of the Rainbow Warrior kicked off a month long "Quit coal" tour around south-east Asia today when they blocked a coal shipment at the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant in Quezon province, south-west of Manila.
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Green bulbs switched on in the Philippines
Posted by jamie on 14 February 2008.
Excellent news reaches us from the Philippines where a ban on old-fashioned incandescent bulbs has recently been announced.
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Activists attacked in the Philippines
Posted by bex on 10 November 2005.
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Clarification of the Greenpeace policy on Golden rice
You may have been slightly confused by recent media reports that Greenpeace will not take direct action against so called golden rice. The reason for this misunderstanding is that a Greenpeace campaigner made comments at a press conference in Lyons that were linked in ways that he did not intend.