This week in Greenpeace pictures

Every day, people from all over the world fight to ensure a green and peaceful future for our planet. From Bulgaria to India, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week:

Sunrise week of action in Europe

These activities are part of the European Energy Transition (EET) week of action, with “suns” being created in several cities in Europe to celebrate renewable energy and remind European leaders that now is the time to act on their climate promises

Greenpeace France makes sparks in Cattenom to denounce its vulnerability

Greenpeace France activists enter the perimeter of the nuclear power plant in Cattenom, Moselle, and set off a fireworks display, close to the spent fuel storage pool. The activity is to expose the fragility and accessibility of these buildings and reveal the lack of protection of the most vulnerable parts of the nuclear installations

Colombia without asbestos demo

Greenpeace activists showed up in Congress to demand the senators of the seventh commission to support the bill “Ana Cecilia Niño,” which, if approved, would ban the use of asbestos in Colombia

Free Speech Resolute forest hearing in San Francisco

Participants and activists appear outside United States District Court for the Northern District of California for a hearing on the controversial racketeering case filed by logging company Resolute Forest Products to silence forest defenders and environmental organizations Greenpeace and Stand.earth. The defendants and other stakeholders had drawn attention to the company’s unsustainable practices in the Canadian boreal forest

Oil free Salish Sea March Point protest

Canoe families, kayaktivists, bike activists and people who love the Salish Sea and believe that now is the time to end fossil fuel production and transport in the Salish Sea gather at March Point to rally..to sing..to pray..to educate ourselves about the human and environmental devastation fossil fuel brings to our land and water. Kinder Morgan’s proposed transmountain pipeline would bring almost 1 million barrels of oil per day to Salish Sea shores to be trafficked across our waters then processed at refineries such as this one at March Point. This would kill the Salish Sea after an oil spill! Kinder Morgan also plans on expanding the Puget Sound Pipeline to further increase the toxic refinery pollution coming out the refinery stacks here at March Point

Meat consumption at Oktoberfest Munich

Meat Consumption at Oktoberfest Munich, a beer festival in Germany where lots of sausages, beef, pork and chicken are grilled and offered

Don’t Touch My Forest: Congo Basin land tour

Documentation of ground-level research into satellite data on vast peatland areas recently discovered by scientists in the swamps of the Congo Basin rainforest, as well as affected communities and the natural environment. The most carbon-rich tropical region in the world is estimated to store the equivalent of three years’ worth of total global fossil fuel

Waste to Food: segregation of waste and composting in Bengaluru

With the population of nearly 10 million, Bengaluru produces between 3,000 tonnes to 5,000 tonnes of garbage every day of which around 60 percent is organic waste

The Arctic Sunrise arrives in New York

Greenpeace’s historic Arctic Sunrise ship arrives in New York City to begin a month long tour along the Atlantic Coast highlighting threats to our oceans and climate. The tour focus is on the urgent issue of single-use plastics and microplastics in our waters, and the need to protect our coasts and climate from seismic blasting and offshore oil drilling

Action for #Stand4Fukushima and the crane art installation in Geneva

Greenpeace Japan is intervening in the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Japan on behalf of Fukushima survivors (particularly women and children). A collaborative art installation between Greenpeace Japan and Swiss artist, Sipho Mabona, brings messages of support and solidarity for Fukushima survivors to the doorstep of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Clean up Jakarta Day

Volunteers join a Clean Up Jakarta Day on the regular Car Free Day event in Jakarta. Greenpeace Indonesia join with Zero Waste Alliance Indonesia (AZWI) and published their report on the garbage audit from Indonesia including last audit in Bokor island, in Thousands Islands, North Jakarta last September. These activities are part of global #BreakFreeFromPlastic action to educate people not to over consume products that use single-use plastic packaging

“Don’t wipe away forests” action in Sweden

A Greenpeace International investigation reveals how Essity, the world’s second-largest tissue producer, is driving the destruction of critical parts of Europe’s Great Northern Forest, in Sweden, Finland and Russia

And from the Archives…

The BR163 Amazon Federal Highway, Feb 2012

Defending Our Pacific Expedition, Dec 2011

Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man on Arctic Sea Ice, August 2011

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