The Greenpeace International Climate Campaign
The Greenpeace International
Climate Campaign aims to: (a) inform the
public about the seriousness of climate change and global warming; (b)
create the political climate that will compel governments to take immediate
and effective action; and (c) promote the 'solar revolution' as the means
to environmentally sustainable solutions for generating and conserving
energy.
Greenpeace maintains that only through public pressure will the
politicians be motivated to deal with this problem in a truly responsible
manner; and since the causes and the impacts of climate change are
global, the
solutions must be based on international agreements.
Consequently, the Greenpeace Climate Campaign is both national and
international.
The Greenpeace campaign aims to influence national governments to
institute domestic policies that substantially reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, and to support the development of environmentally sustainable
options, such as renewable energy generation. The campaign also intervenes
in the international arena, for example at the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, to push the world community towards deep
cuts in global CO2 emissions.
Greenpeace demands that, at the minimum,
CO2 reductions in
industrialized countries
must be reduced by 20% of 1990 levels, by the year 2005, through a legally
binding CO2 Reduction Protocol.
The Greenpeace Climate Campaign
is solutions oriented. Greenpeace is
working to shift global energy dependence from environmentally dangerous
sources of energy, such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy, to
ecologically sustainable solar energy . Greenpeace wants industrialized
countries to convert their current energy generating systems to renewable
technologies at a minimum rate of 3% per year.
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