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 Brussels to Beijing, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week:

Plastic Monster Beluga Ship Tour in Netherlands

Greenpeace’s ship “Beluga II” with a more than 20 meters Plastic Monster is on a tour throughout Europe.
The world has recently woken up to the crisis of plastic pollution. Cheap throwaway plastics are destroying our communities and our waterways. We need to seek out the source of the plastic monster, and stop it there. During the ship tour Greenpeace exposes plastic pollution for the monster that it is, ships it back to its corporate creators around the world, and demands that they slay the plastic monster

Senator’s Green New Deal press conference in Washington DC

As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell readies vote on Green New Deal, Democrats hold press conference calling for bold climate action. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) spoke to the press on March 26 calling for bold climate action in Congress and blasting Republicans for blocking real action on climate change

OccupyForClimate Action in Brussels

Hundreds of people and organisations, among which scientists and celebrities, young people, Youth for Climate and Greenpeace are occupying the “Rue de la Loi” in Brussels and urge politicians to go for an ambitious climate law

Air Pollution Action in South Africa

Activists put protective masks on statues to draw attention to deaths caused by Eskom’s air pollution in South Africa

The Mobile Phone Resource Cycle Exhibition in Beijing

Greenpeace Beijing holds an exhibition called “Sleeping Treasure: the Mobile Phone Resource Cycle Exhibition” in a shopping centre to show the public the value of e-waste with information panels, and an art installation made of over 500 old mobile phones is also exhibited

Action at the opening ceremony of 2019 Seoul Motor Show

Greenpeace Korea activists displayed a large banner outside the KINTEX Ilsan, where the opening ceremony of 2019 Seoul Motor Show took place, with the slogan: “We can’t tackle climate change if only 0.2% of vehicles are zero emission. The Oil Age is Ending”

Bernhardt Senate Monsters in Washington D.C.

Greenpeace activists dressed as “swamp monsters” attend Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt’s hearing in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Greenpeace is urging Senators to reject Bernhardt, a career fossil fuel lobbyist whose conflicts of interest should preclude him from overseeing US public lands and waters

Protest march against enlargement of RWE coal mining in Germany

Inhabitants of villages threatened by expansion of RWE open-pit mining at Garzweiler and Hambach rally together with climate activists. They demand: ”All villages must stay!” Place-name signs of affected villages in Germany

A large graffiti action for Clean Air in Lyon

“Lyon is still suffocating — We want to breathe” has been “written” on the La Croix-Rousse tunnel by Greenpeace activists, using chalk spray paint to show their opposition and urge authorities of Lyon to respond to pollution.

Images of Volkswagen’s production plant in Wolfsburg

The Autostadt (German for Automobile City) is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles.
In two towers, up to 400 brand-new cars from the Volkswagen AG Group are ready to be picked up by their new owners. Fully automatic, computer-controlled lifting platforms are placing the new cars in their garage spaces in the tower

And from the Archives…

Caught Shark on Japanese Longliner, Sept 2012

Flooding in Metro Manila, Aug 2012

Burned Electric Pole from Forest Fires in Russia, Sept 2010

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