Greenpeace in the Philippines

Six days before the Copenhanen Climate talks, Greenpeace activists calling attention to hazards posed by coal-fired power plants found that hazmat suits may not be enough protection. Clad in protective suits against hazardous materials, the peaceful activists, seeking only to take pictures of the toxic by-product, were aimed at and met with warning gunshots by security guards of the coal ash dumpsite in Barangay Tinaan in Naga, Cebu. Greenpeace is reiterating its call to save the climate by quitting coal. Click here to read more

Greenpeace activists protest the illegal erection of a steel structure and back-filling on a proposed site for a coal-fired power plant in Iloilo. Research shows that there are abundant sources of clean, renewable energy in the area that remains untapped. Coal plants are the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change that manifest in extreme weather events like typhoons Frank, Ondoy and Pepeng. Click here to read more

Carrying placards with words “Live Long and Prosper: Stop Climate Change” a group of unidentified aliens visited the Asian Development Bank headquarters during an on-going high-level dialogue on climate and clean energy.

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