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 Senegal to Seoul to Spain, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week:

Climate Action Now protest at Finnish Parliament

Hundreds of activists with large colourful banners march to the steps of the Finnish parliament, demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels and for protection of forests vital to stopping climate change

8th Anniversary of Fukushima Accident in Japan

Tens of thousands of workers have been employed in decontamination of areas of Fukushima contaminated by the March 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. Greenpeace radiation surveys in October 2018 showed high levels of contamination in areas where workers were operating. In testimony to Greenpeace, former decontamination worker Mr Ikeda explained the risks of radiation exposure experienced by workers, as well as how they receive very little and inadequate radiation training, how radiation data and identification data is unreliable and open to manipulation

Environmental Issues in Bargny, Senegal

This year, on March 8th, Greenpeace Africa’s ocean team will raise the voice of local women processors struggling for their livelihoods in a fish processing sector that is gradually becoming challenging with the increasing installation of fishmeal factories in local fishing communities.
Most of the women who used to live comfortably by covering their children’s tuition fees, food and health expenses now, lack financial means to ensure a bright future for them as a result of income loss due to the unfair trade set by fishmeal locally installed factories

Air Pollution Protest in Jakarta

Greenpeace activists hold a theatrical action at the Indonesian Forestry and Environment Ministry office to respond to the worst condition of air pollution in Jakarta. Air pollution will take an estimated seven million lives globally in the next year, while costing the world’s economy nearly 225 billion USD

Ship It Back Rainbow Warrior Tour in the Philippines

Greenpeace activists tail a garbage disposal barge carrying tons of plastic waste through Manila Bay, to protest the broken system of plastic production and pollution. The activists unfurled and attached banners on the barge reading “STOP SINGLE-USE PLASTIC.”

Daily average of ultrafine dust in Seoul to reach second highest on record

Ultrafine dust blanketed most of South Korea with emergency measures to combat fine dust enforced for the fifth consecutive day. South Korea’s authorities have classified levels of PM 2.5 above 35 micrograms per cubic meter as “bad” and above 75 micrograms as “very bad.” The level reached 130 microgram per cubic meter during the day in Seoul

Plastic-Spitting Dragon at San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

Greenpeace installs a huge plastic spitting dragon at San Juan de Gaztelugatxe (the real location of the emblematic Dragonstone from the series Game of Thrones) to denounce how the companies producing plastics are polluting our seas

King Kong air pollution action in Seoul

King Kong appears wearing a mask and holding a banner with Korean text (“Air stagnation and PM are filling this beautiful city, Seoul”). Greenpeace Seoul placed the inflatable King Kong sculpture on the Han River, one of the city’s popular places, to highlight the connection between the PM (particulate matter) air pollution issue and climate change. Almost every year in the period from fall to spring, air pollution is the main concern of the public

Shoppers’ Revolt plastic hand-in UK

Local Greenpeace volunteers in various locations return pieces of single use packaging to the supermarket store manager. Single-use plastic packaging is a major contributor to the plastic pollution that is having a devastating impact on our rivers and oceans, and UK supermarkets generate more than 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste every year. This plastic was collected from supermarket customers, who also wrote personal messages to supermarket telling them to ditch single use plastic

And from the Archives….

Peace Sign in Lesbos, Jan 2016

Action against Shell’s Oil Rig in the Pacific Ocean, June 2015

Environmental Resilience in Kenya, June 2015

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