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 Argentina to Hungary to Finland, here’s a look at some of the top Greenpeace images this week:

Stop fracking Patagonia action in Vaca Muerta, Argentina

Dozens of Greenpeace Argentina activists blockade the entrance to a toxic waste facility in the north of Argentine Patagonia owned by Treater S.A and used by oil companies like Shell and Total to dispose of the waste created by their dangerous fracking operations in the region

Activists demand CLEAN AIR at statue of Budapest, Hungary

Greenpeace activists climbed the Statue of Liberty, an iconic site in Budapest, Hungary to demand politicians act for clean air. Air pollution has been an extreme problem in Hungary since 2009. Around 13 thousand Hungarians die every year because of air pollution. The country became the second on the list of air-pollution related premature deaths per capita within the EU in the 2018 EEA Report

Sámi reindeer herders oppose railroad construction in Finland

The Indigenous Sámi communities in Northern Finland have practiced traditional reindeer-herding for generations where the reindeer depend on old-growth forests and lichen for winter forage. Industrial forestry has for years been destroying and fragmenting these forests, pushing the communities to the limit. The Finnish government is betting that the melting Arctic will provide a trade route to exploit Saami lands. They want more pulp mills, more logging, more mines. As the Sámi put it: “The Finnish government is trading away our rights and our land. We do not consent.”

Giant choking plastic whale at Viareggio Carnival in Italy

A giant dying whale choking in single-use plastic waste joined the parade of Viareggio Carnival in Italy, to remind big corporations to break free from plastic

Giant plastic bottle for Michael Gove in London

Greenpeace activists deliver a 29 foot long plastic bottle artwork to the British Environment Secretary Michael Gove to urge him not to ‘lose his bottle’ in the face of corporate lobbying, and to press on with an all-inclusive deposit return scheme

Greta Thunberg and thousands of students marching for Climate in Paris

5,000 to 8,000 students and high schoolers marched for the climate in Paris. They were asking for a more ambitious climate policy. Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg led this particular march in order to draw attention to climate change

Greta Thunberg leads students on Seventh Climate March in Brussels

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg leads a march of thousands of Belgian students who, for the seventh Thursday in a row, marching through Brussels in order to draw attention to climate change

Action at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg

With an action in front of the EIB building and an Eiffel Tower replica in Luxembourg, Greenpeace activists send a clear demand to the European Investment Bank to respect the Paris Agreement and stop financing coal and other fossil fuels

Youth Strike 4 Climate in London

London’s school children go on strike and take to the streets to protest about climate change

Waste documentation in Manila, Philippines

Documentation on waste in rivers in Manila

International Polar Bear Day

And from the Archives…

Rainbow Warrior journeys to Fukushima, April 2011

Organic Rice Art Documentation in Thailand, Nov 2009

Esperanza in the Southern Ocean, Jan 2008

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