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Kumi Naidoo: We Stand 100% With the Pope and His Call to Climate Action
2015-09-26 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Kumi Naidoo, the executive director of Greenpeace International, spoke Thursday at the Washington, DC rally on Moral Action for Climate Change. The event took place as Pope Francis gave a first-ever papal address to Congress. Environmentalists have hailed the Pope during his inaugural visit to the U.S. for being an outspoken advocate for urgent action on climate change. At a speech at the White House on Wednesday, he said "climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to a future generation....
Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo On Russia and Climate Struggle
2014-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Kumi Naidoo, the international executive director of Greenpeace, is intimately familiar with the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in the Russian Arctic. In August 2012, he and five other Greenpeace activists were hosed down with frigid water and pelted with pieces of metal as they attempted to climb aboard the platform, which recently became the first offshore installation to begin producing oil in the Arctic Ocean. Greenpeace and Prirazlomnaya were back in the news last fall when 28 Greenpeace...
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Kumi Naidoo: governments must confront climate change in 2013
2013-01-10 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US president Obama sent a clear message about climate change during his acceptance speech. But will he and other world leaders finally take decisive action? Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images I hope I am wrong. But in 2013, we can expect to witness more devastating extreme weather events, fuelled and supercharged by the destructive power of a warming planet brought about by climate change. I hope to witness and be part of the exponential growth in popular pressure to force governments to take...
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