11 moments that broke the internet in 2015

Blogpost by Stefanus Wongsodiredjo 

As 2015 draws to a close, we reflect back on some of the people powered moments that pulled our heart strings, filled us with passion or simply inspired us.
Here are a few of them, from Greenpeace and beyond...

1. Imagine if we all did this just a few times a year

Tommy Klein cleaned up a heavily polluted waterfront on his way to work in a week of half hours. He filled up one garbage bag at a time until the work was done.

1 person did this in a week of half hours. Imagine if we all did this just a few times a year.
Posted by Greenpeace International on Tuesday, 21 April 2015

2. Can you help make your country next?

It caused a mini meltdown in England when it was introduced spawning countless hilarious tweets. But many countries and cities, including Hawaii, Rwanda, and Montreal, have started to ban plastic bags. Do you think your country could be next?

Hawaii just banned plastic bags. Can you help make New Zealand the next? >> http://grnpc.org/IgtC9What were you..

Posted by Greenpeace International on Tuesday, 14 July 2015

3. "The biggest environmental crime of the 21st century"

It's been labelled so many names by news reports: from a "crime against humanity" to the "greatest environmental disaster this century".
Indonesia's forest fire crisis has affected several neighbouring countries, from Singapore to Thailand and as far away as the Philippines.
There have been 500,000 reported cases of acute respiratory tract infections since 1 July… and up to a third of the world's orangutan habitat has been threatened with destruction.
Since 2007, Greenpeace Indonesia has been building dams in peatland canals to restore the dried-out wetlands and prevent future fires.

10 shocking facts showing how palm oil and paper companies are *still* trashing Indonesia's rainforests >>...
Posted by Greenpeace International on Sunday, 22 November 2015

4. I am his hands. He is my eyes

Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi are two 53-year-old men from China who have faced incredible challenges in their lives. Haixia is blind and Wenqi lost both of his arms.
Together, the pair have managed to plant over 10,000 trees over the past 10 years.

"I am his hands. He is my eyes." When your calling is bigger than your limitations. #NothingIsImpossible
Posted by Greenpeace International on Saturday, 14 November 2015

5. This story broke our hearts, not just the internet

Captured in July 2012 at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, park ranger Patrick Karabaranga was seen consoling a mountain gorilla whose mother was killed by poachers.

So much respect for park rangers like Patrick, protecting gorillas in Virunga National Park. SHARE to spread the love.
Posted by Greenpeace International on Wednesday, 23 September 2015

6. Because to change everything, we need everyone

The most beautiful thing about this movement is that different individuals are taking spontaneous action as they see fit.

Yesterday, kayaktivists in Seattle formed a human blockade -- stopping Shell's rig from heading to the Arctic for...
Posted by Greenpeace International on Tuesday, 16 June 2015

This moment leads us to one of the biggest victories this year...

7. Goodbye Shell! The Arctic won't miss you

In an extraordinary display of people power, Shell succumbed to global pressure and pulled out of Arctic drilling after spending more than US$6 billion over three years.
Give a big WHOOP! This moment is for the 7 million people worldwide who've stood in defence of the Arctic, the polar bears, the whales and the walruses.

GOODBYE SHELL!Shell pulls Arctic drilling program after 3 years, $6 billion and no ARCTIC OIL! This is the sweet taste...
Posted by Greenpeace International on Monday, 28 September 2015

8. I am woman. Hear me roar

From Sri Lanka to South Africa, women are on the front lines leading fight in the poaching wars.

"We have discovered that if you want a project to succeed, have the women of the community run it."
Posted by Greenpeace International on Wednesday, 8 July 2015

9. Demanding justice

In November 2015, two mining dams collapsed in Mariana, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This environmental disaster is the one of the worst in Brazil's history.
River Doce, the largest in the southeast region, is at risk of death. Thousands homes are destroyed and lives were lost.
Greenpeace aims to expose the disaster's impact on the environment and demand justice!

One of the worst environmental disasters in Brazilian history is happening right now. Two dams holding millions of cubic...
Posted by Greenpeace International on Tuesday, 17 November 2015

10. Leaving nature to do what it does best

An abandoned fishing village in Shengshi was reclaimed by nature and the result is stunning.

Nature has reclaimed this abandoned village in China... and it's extraordinary!
Posted by Greenpeace International on Tuesday, 9 June 2015

11. It's only the beginning, not the finish line...

As the final details of the Paris climate agreement were being hashed out, Greenpeace France activists used eco-paint to create a shining sun around the Arc de Triomphe.

Renewables for the climate! ☀As #COP21 enters the closing stretch, activists use eco-paint to create a shining sun around the Arc de Triomphe to demand action on climate change.
Posted by Greenpeace International on Friday, 11 December 2015

It always seems impossible until it's done and we're not done yet. We, the people, have the power to change the world!

Join the movement here.

Stefanus Wongsodiredjo is a Content Editor at the Asia Pacific Communications Hub.

This is what YOU made happen in 2015...

Blogpost by Shuk-Wah Chung - 29 December, 2015 at 3:22 Add comment

It may have been the warmest year on record, but one thing’s for sure: 2015 signalled hope and change for the enviro-movement.

Here are 9 things you helped happen in 2015.

 

A large scale message made by hundreds of people during the COP21 climate summit

1. You helped accelerate the end of coal!

From the tiny village in Turkey that took on a “land grab” by a major power plant; to BOTH sides of the Norwegian parliament agreeing to divest from coal, the big ol’ black rock had a pretty terrible year.

In Australia, approval of a major coal project that planned to be right on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef was overturned by the Federal Court. This was followed by major banks pulling out their investment leaving Adani, the company behind the mine, in a major ditch. But the fight isn’t over - Adani has been persistent - and the power and passion to protect the Reef will continue to grow.

 

Over 145,000 have signed the petition to #SavetheReef, that led to major banks pulling out of investing in a coal project that would have endangered Australia’s rich marine life and made serious carbon emissions. 

2. You joined Greenpeace activists to say #ShellNo!

Slacktivism is lazy right? WRONG!

When 13 Greenpeace USA activists suspended from St. Johns Bridge in Portland to block a Shell vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters, you supported them with your Tweet love, Facebook shares, petition signing, and all the encouraging messages that poured into our inbox. Because of your support, the ship was forced to turn back to port temporarily.

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climbers vs 1 giant ship. But in the end #PeopleVsShell won!

In the UK, Aurora our giant polar bear was erected outside Shell’s headquarters and refused to move until they agreed to pull out of drilling in Arctic. And then…they did!

 
Actor Emma Thompson and Greenpeace activists with Aurora, the polar bear. In September, Shell quit drilling in the Arctic.

3. You saved the little guys…

…like the vaquitas. These rare species of porpoise are on the cusp of becoming extinct due to them being caught up in nets intended for another endangered fish - the totoaba.

But 100,000 of you stood up and demanded the vaquitas be protected. USA and China agreed to tackle the smuggling of the totoaba fish, and Hong Kong fined the operators of two dried seafood shops that sell bladders of the endangered fish.

 

These totoaba bladders can fetch up to USD 645,000. But you’ve helped pressure governments to end trafficking this product. 

Mexico announced a temporary ban on fishing nets in the vaquita habitat. Though the rare marine mammals need more protection from all countries involved, we’re closer than ever to protecting them.

 

Only 57 vaquita are left in the world. Thanks for helping protect them. 

4. …and the big guys too.

Indonesia’s forest fires have been labelled a “crime against humanity”, driven by companies clearing land for palm oil and endangering the lives of the orangutan.

But hundreds of thousands of you took action to force major brands including Nestlé, Unilever, P&G and Mattel to cease buying the products linked to deforestation. As a result, Indonesian paper giant APRIL this year agreed to stop pulping the rainforest.

 

Thanks for help protecting the home of the orangutan!

As the fires continued throughout the year, you also helped us pressure President Jokowi to stop the fires for good, and we delivered over 250,000 of your messages to the man himself.

 

At the COP21 climate talks in Paris we handed over a petition signed by 253,800 people around the world to halt forest and peatland destruction. Thank you!

5. You lent a small hand in a big fight

Russia also suffered from fires and land clearing, and your support helped us send firefighters out there to battle the blazes.

In November, the Russian government banned the burning of dry grass on agricultural land and conservation areas.

 

Stopping dry grass fire took 6 years, and this year it finally happened!

In the Amazon, you stood with the Ka’apor indigenous community by working with  them to monitor and protect their lands from the invasion of illegal loggers.

 

Also called “forest dwellers” the home of the Ka’apor has been strengthened by technology to document the invasion of logging trucks inside their territory. Here, a trap camera is being set up to monitor the indigenous territory in areas used by illegal loggers. 
And in India, a disputed forest block that was up for auction was given back to the community after years of campaigning by Greenpeace India!

6. You said NO to cheap throwaway clothing

Major retailers like Aldi, Lidl and Tchibo listened to your demands for a toxic-free world and committed to eliminate all hazardous chemicals from their textile products by January 1st, 2020.

 

Thanks for helping to build the #detox movement

7. You pressured Internet giants to go renewable

If the Internet were a country it would be the 6th largest power consumer. We’ve pressured Google, Apple, and Facebook to go renewable, and in June Korean Internet giant Naver committed to 100% renewable energy.

 

Almost everything is online these days. That’s why we need to pressure data centres like, this one in North Virginia to be powered by renewables.

8. You scared off fossil fuel companies

It’s time for climate justice! This year, we supported island nation Kiribati to call for a moratorium on all new coal mines.

During the Paris climate talks, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights announced it will investigate major polluters like Exxon, following a global people powered petition, gathering over 100,000 signatures.

 

The Philippines launched the world’s first ever national human rights investigation into 50 big polluters.
And in the US, a fight that had been raging on for years finally came to an end when expansion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the United States was flat-out rejected by President Obama. Yes, people power won!

9. You cared about changing the out-of-control tuna industry

The world’s tuna stocks are decreasing, fuelled by an industry using slavery and aggressive fishing methods to clear out the ocean. Greenpeace ships have been out in the sea keeping an eye on the practices of the tuna industry; and in China we exposed and stopped the dodgy actions of a company that was trying to raise millions of dollars to fish for some of the most vulnerable species in the Pacific.

 

Slavery and overfishing - the tuna industry is out of control, but your consumer choice and voice is helping to change that.
World leaders are paying attention to the threat of climate change, renewables are on the up, and around the world the environmental movement is strengthening. There’s a global shift happening, and YOU are at the centre of it!

Bring on 2016!

Shuk-Wah Chung is a Content Editor at Greenpeace East Asia. Follow her on Twitter @shookiewah
Want to help make 2016 an even better year for the world we live in? Join us! 

After Tianjin blasts, families struggle to piece their lives back together

Blogpost by Qian Cheng

 

Since the Tianjin accident, workers have been laying out fresh turf next to the centre of the blast site. There are plans to build a 43 hectare harbour eco-park, as well as a primary school, kindergarten and other public amenities.

Just before midnight on August 12 2015, two chemical blasts ripped through Tianjin, a major port city in northeastern China, about two hours away from the capital Beijing. So powerful were the explosions they could be seen from space, and terrifying footage of the accident was circulated around the world.  203 people lost their lives that night and thousands more were left homeless, injured, shocked and afraid.

Triggered by a concoction of flammable chemicals that ignited at a warehouse run by Ruihai Logistics Warehouse, the impact was equivalent to detonating up to 20 tonnes of TNT, blasting windows out of frames and flattening rows upon rows of shipping containers.
People living in residential compounds, Harbour City and Qihang Jia Park - both around 300m from the blast site - had no idea that they were living under the shadow of a ticking time bomb. Despite pressure from media and the public, the investigation report of the Tianjin chemical accident still hasn’t been released, and neither have full details of the safety assessment of the Ruihai Logistics Warehouse.

All across China, there are facilities just like the Ruihai warehouse, housing dangerous chemicals in residential areas. This means that right now there are more ticking time bombs, located next to schools, homes and office buildings, that could go off any time.

Two months after the explosion, the people whose homes were destroyed that night are still struggling to piece their lives back together. Greenpeace East Asia, Beijing spoke to five families about how the experience has changed them, and their hopes and concerns for the future.

“I thought it was the end of the world”

 

Qing Ying was asleep when the blast shook her apartment, sending shards of glass from shattered windows into her thigh.

By the time the second explosion occurred she had already grabbed her son and bolted out of the building. Due to her injuries she could barely walk, but her son forced her to keep going. As soon as she got outside, her neighbour helped her find a car amongst all the chaos and took her to the hospital.
“For me, the most precious thing were the relationships between neighbours. It’s unusual to find such a close-knit community nowadays, but we had that,” recalls Qing Ying.

“I was so happy to finally have a place to call home. I never expected that after two years it would be completely destroyed.”

Chen Qiang and Fang Li moved into their new apartment in 2013, a prized possession after working hard to save and borrow money to make a purchase together.

Fang li and their daughter were out of town on the night of the explosion, but Chen Qiang was home. Glass from his window pierced his left eye when the first explosion happened. By the time his wife arrived at the hospital his eye had already been removed.

 “Everyone is slowly forgetting about what happened...but we can’t.”
Chen Qiang and Fang Li are now facing a future of uncertainty. They have moved closer to the city center to make it more convenient for Fang Li to get to work, as she now shoulders more of the responsibility for providing for the family.
Even now, Chen Qiang doesn’t feel safe. “It happened once, so it could happen again.”

“If anyone had known that the container yard stored hazardous chemicals, we would have acted to change that.”

 

Song was at a conference in nearby Tanggu district on the night of the explosion, but his father was staying at his house. When Song heard about the explosion he rushed home to find his father, who fortunately was fine apart from a few cuts and bruises. 

“I used to worry about small things. If I went away for a trip I would think, ‘who will look after my plants while I’m away?’ Now there’s nothing to take care of.”

Like any first-home buyer, Song did thorough research before buying the apartment. When the building was under construction, he made sure to investigate the structural safety of the building. “I checked and double checked. I thought this place was safe.”  

 He knew there was a storage area close to the apartment building but he had no idea it was used to store enormous quantities of dangerous chemicals. “If anyone had known that the container yard stored hazardous chemicals, we would have acted to change that.”

“The doors and locks are gone, but it’s a symbol of trust.” 

“Just when we had started a family, settled down and were ready to have a future, the explosion happened.”
 Baozi’s family moved into Harbour City in April 2013. Under his roof lived three generations - his parents, him and his wife, and their child.
“It was such a lively neighbourhood before the explosion. There were a lot of young families here - at night teenagers would play basketball, elderly people would dance in the square and there was a place for the kids to play.”

Now, the once bustling community is like a ghost town.

Baozi showed us his neighbours’ keys that he kept as a memento of his lost neighbourhood.

“The keys are useless now, because the doors and locks are gone, but it’s a symbol of trust.”

Many of his neighbours had scrimped, saved and sacrificed to build a life in this place.

“We have friends who used up their parents’ entire savings to move here. Some couldn’t afford any furniture when they first moved in. They just arrived with a mattress and slowly purchased the things they needed one by one.”

“All of a sudden you can lose your child or your home.”

 

The Chen family had only been living in Harbour City for three months before the explosion happened. On that night they went to bed early, but were suddenly woken by the first blast. Glass from the windows imploded, falling on 14-year old Xiaofeng. His back and legs are now covered in scars.

As Xiaofeng ran from the building, he saw a young woman on the phone to her husband.

“We don’t have a home anymore!” she cried.

Since the explosion, Xiaofeng’s parents now think differently about life and expectations of their son.

“Being alive is the most important thing. All of a sudden you can lose your child or your home. The government can rebuild our houses, but they can’t return a life that’s lost.”
Qian Cheng is Assistant Campaign Manager for Greenpeace East Asia's Toxics Campaign

Juntos somos mais

Postado por icrepald

Terminamos 2015 com vitórias que seriam impossíveis sem você: obrigado!

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quarta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2015

Este foi um ano de muitos desafios, muitas ações e conquistas para o Greenpeace no Brasil. Com a ajuda de nossos colaboradores, nós pudemos colocar em prática todas as nossas campanhas – de gado, de florestas, de água, de mobilidade, de madeira, de energia solar etc. –, para pressionar governantes e empresas a se engajarem por um mundo mais limpo e justo. Neste vídeo de retrospectiva, você pode ver um resumo do nosso trabalho em Amazônia e Clima e Energia em 2015.

Isso tudo só foi viável porque contamos com a ajuda de pessoas como você, que compartilham e apoiam nossas ações.
Continue com a gente em 2016: ano novo, luta nova!

Primeiros resultados sobre água da bacia do Rio Doce são revelados

Relatório preliminar com a análise da qualidade da água e de sedimentos na área afetada pela lama registra índices de manganês, arsênio e chumbo muito acima do permitido 

 

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Camada de lama seca contendo resíduos minerais no município de Paracatu de Baixo, cerca de 70km de Mariana, MG. Ao fundo, trecho do rio Gualaxo do Norte (© VIctor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Com o rompimento da barragem da mineradora Samarco em Mariana (MG), no último dia 5 de novembro, o mar de lama também carreou diversas informações desencontradas sobre a composição dos rejeitos e os potenciais impactos da lama sobre os ecosistemas atingidos. Incomodados com a falta de transparência e a gravidade da situação, pesquisadores de diversas universidades criaram o Grupo Independente de Avaliação do Impacto Ambiental (GIAIA), que se auto define como um “coletivo cidadão-científico”.

Ao contrário do que a Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM) e a Samarco afirmam a respeito da ausência de metais pesados nas água do Rio Doce, o GIAIA, que conta com apoio do Greenpeace, divulgou um Relatório Parcial sobre a contaminação da bacia a partir de coletas realizadas em campo entre os dias 4 e 8 de dezembro. Pesquisadores da UnB (Universidade de Brasília) e da UFSCar (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) coletaram e analisaram amostras de 17 pontos entre o rio Gualaxo do Norte, em trecho acima da barragem rompida (portanto não atingido pela lama), até a foz do Rio Doce, no Espírito Santo, onde a massa de lama chegou no dia 21 de novembro.

Entre os elementos analisados, o manganês, por exemplo, está acima do permitido pela resolução 357 do Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente (CONAMA) em 16 dos 17 pontos pesquisados, inclusive à montante da barragem de Fundão (o que indicaria contaminação anterior ao desastre). Em dois locais à jusante (rio abaixo) da barragem, em Ipatinga (cidade mineira de 150 mil habitantes) e na confluência do Rio do Carmo com o Rio Gualaxo do Norte, na cidade de Rio Doce, a concentração de manganês foi de 2,65 mg/L, ou seja, 26 vezes acima do limite máximo estabelecido (0,1 mg/L). O manganês é um elemento neurotoxico, cujo consumo pode causar diversos distúrbios e doenças mentais.  

Em outro resultado preliminar do trabalho dos pesquisadores, a água captada em Governador Valadares mostrou uma concentração de arsênio quatro vezes superior aos valores máximos permitidos para água potável. Já o chumbo, metal pesado com efeito sobre o sistema cardiovascular e nervoso, apresentou limites acima do permitido no Rio Gualaxo do Norte (0,029 mg/L) e na cidade de Rio Doce (0,016 mg/L).

O CONAMA não impõe limites para o ferro e o alumínio, mas, segundo o texto do relatório, ambos “estão em concentrações extremamente altas em todos os pontos de coleta afetados pela lama de rejeito”. Viviane Schuch, uma das idealizadoras e coordenadoras do GIAIA, explica que se trata de um estudo preliminar, mas que os resultados são muito confiáveis. “Essas mesmas amostras serão enviadas a laboratórios nacionais, e possivelmente internacionais, para que os dados sejam confirmados”, disse ela.

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Vista aérea do município de Bento Rodrigues, em MG, tomado pela lama de resíduos minerais (© Alexandre Moreno/TerraSense/Greenpeace)

Segundo o GIAIA, os estudos de impacto ambiental devem ser transparentes e as informações levantadas, disponibilizadas livremente. “Qualquer pessoa da sociedade deve ter livre acesso ao conjunto de dados e análises que foram executadas “, defendem em sua página na internet.

Um levantamento da SOS Mata Atlântica, em parceria com o Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), aponta que a lama destruiu pelo menos 324 hectares de mata nativa. O rompimento da barragem também afetou um total de 679 km de rios, incluindo o Rio Doce. Clique aqui para acessar o relatório completo.

Uma semana após o desastre, o Greenpeace enviou uma equipe para registrar o estado das comunidades atingidas pela lama e para percorrer o curso do Rio Doce até o Oceano Atlântico, registrando os impactos pelo caminho. Confira o nosso relato aqui e aqui. A organização também vai seguir apoiando a pesquisa sobre os impactos do desastre na região de Mariana e ao longo da Bacia do Rio Doce, bem como divulgando seus resultados.

Confronto com madeireiros deixa indígenas feridos no Maranhão

Dois índios Ka’apor estão feridos e quatro estão desaparecidos após um ataque de madeireiros na Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, no Maranhão. A aldeia Turizinho chegou a ficar cercada por madeireiros 

 

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Durante monitoramento, Ka'apor encontram extração ilegal de madeira em seu território (©Lunaé Parracho/Greenpeace)

Um grupo de cerca de 25 guardiões do povo Ka’apor estava combatendo o fogo na extremidade norte da Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, no Maranhão, quando encontrou sete pessoas extraindo madeira ilegalmente em um ramal que já havia sido desativado anteriormente. Os indígenas apreenderam os equipamentos, queimaram os veículos e detiveram os madeireiros para apresentar ao Ibama (Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais).
No entanto, um invasor conseguiu fugir e retornou mais tarde, com cerca de 20 homens armados, atacando os Ka’apor e bloqueando o ramal que dá acesso a aldeia Turizinho. Dois indígenas ficaram feridos e quatro estão desaparecidos. Não há informações sobre a gravidade dos ferimentos. O superintendente da Polícia Federal (PF) no Maranhão foi acionado e policiais devem ser enviados à área para resgatar os baleados da aldeia. Um sobrevoo da PF sobre a área esta previsto para hoje.

“A falta de credibilidade nas autoridades, que deveriam garantir os direitos e a segurança dos povos tradicionais, tem feito com que grupos indígenas entrem em estado de guerra na defesa de suas terras, a exemplo do que vem acontecendo com os Ka’apor da TI Alto Turiaçu”, afirma Tica Minami, coordenadora da campanha da Amazônia no Greenpeace.

O episódio é o mais recente capítulo de um conflito que se arrasta há mais de 20 anos entre os Ka’apor e madeireiros que invadem a Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu. Cansados de esperar pela intervenção do Estado, os Ka'apor decidiram, em 2013, defender-se dos madeireiros de maneira autônoma. De forma coordenada, lideranças indígenas passaram a fazer ações de vigilância e monitoramento da Alto Turiaçu para evitar o avanço do desmatamento e a abertura de novos ramais de extração e transporte de madeira ilegal.
E, apesar de bem-sucedidas, as ações autônomas de proteção ao território vêm gerando retaliações aos indígenas da região. Exemplo disso são os recentes incêndios que estão devastando as terras indígenas do Maranhão, ameaçando inclusive povos isolados - como é o caso dos Awa na TI Caru.

A facilidade com que a madeira roubada de áreas protegidas recebe documentação oficial, passando a ser vendida livremente no mercado, motiva as invasões às terras indígenas e deixa um rastro de destruição e violência na Amazônia.

Para o Greenpeace, o que vem acontecendo na Alto Turiaçu não pode mais ser tolerado. “O governo precisa parar de reagir e começar a tomar as medidas necessárias para garantir a proteção efetiva das terras indígenas existentes. Só fiscalização não resolve. Tem que investigar as serrarias e rever os planos de manejo em operação na Amazônia como primeiro passo para ordenar o setor madeireiro que opera na região e garantir a proteção dos territórios e povos tradicionais”, completa Tica Minami.

Thank you for letting me be a part of your journey

Blogpost by Kumi Naidoo 

Dear Friends,
As I look out my window here in Amsterdam, winter is nearly here, and with it comes the retreat of another year, and the passing of what has been to make way for the spring and the new. As the days get shorter and the weather colder, I'm thinking ahead to days of renewal and new beginnings.
As many of you know, I'm soon moving on from my post as Executive Director of Greenpeace International. I don't think of it as leaving Greenpeace, however. I think of it as exchanging my lofty title for a far more powerful one: that of a Greenpeace Volunteer. It's been an amazing journey with all of you, and I've loved every minute of challenge, every day of struggle, every week of progress, every month of triumph, every year we've been building a better world together.
It's hugely gratifying to be able to depart knowing the Paris climate agreement unanimously signalled the end of the era of fossil fuels by 2050. As imperfect as the agreement may be in how we get there, it marks a stark contrast and a huge advance over my first days with Greenpeace at the Copenhagen climate summit, and it gives me some small notion of closure: the world has taken an important step down a very long and difficult road, but the journey has now unquestionably begun.
Greenpeace had me stepping out of my comfort zone many times. And that, of course, is the place where you learn the most about yourself, when you stand at that line between courage and fear, weighing personal risk against what you believe to be right. I've spoken to so many of you who have had the same experience. People who spoke out, or stood up, who volunteered or took some small step or giant leap for the sake of a better future. So often those steps and leaps take us beyond what we thought we'd ever do – either because we were inspired, or angered, or feeling a bond of unity with others. If anything Greenpeace has ever done has catalysed one of those moments, we're doing our job. We're setting off a chain reaction of contagious courage.
For me, a series of ever escalating life choices eventually led me to a moment I will always cherish from my time at Greenpeace: the boarding of an oil rig in the Arctic, having an icy water cannon trained on me as I struggled to climb a ladder to oppose the absurdity of Arctic oil drilling. Experiences like that change you. And by “like that” I don't necessarily mean that extreme form of activism: I mean any action that disrupts your sense of self or your idea of who you are and puts it in a larger context of the human journey and the future of our world. It resets your notion of what you're capable of. And in so doing resets your notion of what humanity is capable of. And in so doing redefines your sense of what's possible.
I came to Greenpeace wanting to break the dichotomy between the environment and development. I knew, rationally, that there is a link between addressing poverty and human rights and addressing environmental injustice and climate injustice. But my time with Greenpeace drove this awareness deeper into my heart. Once you see it, you can't stop seeing it. From the woman who can no longer fish the African coasts for her family because European factory trawlers have emptied her seas, to the child in India choking on ash and coal dust in a village pillaged by the coal industry, to the infant breathing in toxic fumes in an electronic waste dump in China while his mother sets fire to a circuit board to scavenge components, to the devastated family living in a cardboard box after their home was destroyed by typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines: the people who pay the highest price for overconsumption and pollution are those who see the least benefit.
Greenpeace strengthened my belief in the power of nonviolent direct action and my conviction that civil disobedience is essential to addressing this core injustice, to bringing about a truly transformational change not only in the way we feed and fuel our world, but in how we think about wealth, growth, and value – how we reinvent the future in the face of what Naomi Klein has described as an incredible opportunity disguised as a crisis.
In the six years I've been with Greenpeace, we've secured so many victories – from Shell's decision to abandon Arctic Drilling to Italian energy giant ENEL's turning its back on fossil fuels. From dozens of major retailers agreeing to Detox their clothing lines to agreements with major deforesters to end peatland destruction in Indonesia. From Facebook's agreement to friend renewable energy to new Marine Reserves that have increased the size of our protected waters. But these are but small contributions to the vast changes that a far wider movement is driving – from the unprecedented court decision in the Netherlands that the government is negligent of its duty to protect its people if it doesn't cut CO2 by 25% by 2020 – driven by tiny NGO Urgenda – to Elon Musk's decision to open source the design of the Tesla electric car and the PowerWall smart battery, to crowdfunding campaigns for oceans plastic cleanup and prototype solar roadways to new models in the sharing economy to The Guardian's coal divestment campaign. I have found myself on podium after podium speaking from the same agenda of climate urgency as Sharan Burrow, the head of the global trade union movement. I leapt from my chair in celebration after reading the Pope's recent encyclical on stewardship over the Earth. From every category of human endeavour, from every continent, we're witnessing an awakening – an unprecedented conspiracy of courage and commitment to change.
To my successor I leave unfinished business and great challenges. The organisation is still licking its wounds from setbacks that have occurred on my watch – times when we have failed to live up to the values we champion. And while we can never promise to stop falling short of our own standards and expectations, we can commit to learning from those failures. They make us stronger.
My greatest hope is that my successor will continue the unfinished journey of ensuring that Greenpeace becomes more truly global and diverse, more open, better able to unleash the energy and creativity of our supporters and volunteers, more articulate about what we stand for and the solutions we champion, more cooperative in working with movement partners and using our reach to lift up the work of others, more willing to dare to risk – and achieve – the impossible.
As for me, I'm returning to one of the most beautiful places I know in Africa, Rustlers Valley in the Free State, South Africa near the border with Lesotho. There I will continue to work with the EarthRise Trust that is developing an activist school, ecological farming projects, educational development, and economic empowerment programmes. I'll be working alongside Greenpeace in the struggle against nuclear power and to reform the rules of the financial world to stop the flow of money toward projects which are holding back a more beautiful, sustainable, and equitable future for all humanity.
My friends, I leave you with a final thought. As you look around you, remember what the history of the human journey teaches us. The greatest struggle we face is not inventing clean technologies or fundamentally changing the way we produce value or measure growth: these are small challenges compared with how we have changed the world and our own civilization over the course of the few centuries that we've risen up. I refuse to believe that the pace of change for survival will be slower than the pace of change for profit. In times of war, in times of threat to our families or nations we've found unforeseen strength, and we've done impossible things.
But there's an essential ingredient. Without it, the burst of efforts and evidence of change that we see today will remain too little, too late.
That ingredient is hope. It's the belief that change is possible. I saw with my own eyes what happened to the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa once people in large numbers came to believe change was possible. I look around today, and I see more and more evidence that we can beat the worst ravages of climate change. It will take fast action. It will take courage like we have never witnessed on a global scale before – from banks, from corporations, from artists, governments, religious and labour leaders, the charity sector, the billionaires, and from every one of us. Every time the world takes a step forward, be it Apple powering all of its data centres on renewable energy, be it Obama saying no to Arctic oil, be it your university's decision to divest from coal, your neighbor's decision to grow their own vegetables, your parent's decision to volunteer for a cause, or your colleague's decision to eat less meat – whenever anyone makes a contribution to building that better world we know in our hearts it is possible, we have a duty. A duty to share. To tell the world. To make that courage contagious. Make it a norm. Make it an expectation that this is how the world works. Belief requires evidence, and the stories we tell one another evidence our beliefs: some stories propel us forward. Others hold us back. We can believe that change is impossible, or too expensive, or naive, and consign the fate of this earth to death by business as usual. Or we can fight back. We can stand up and say that a better world is not only possible, it's being built right now, by the individual and collective acts of courage of every one of us.
To all of you reading this, to all my colleagues at Greenpeace, to all of us working for a better world, thank you for letting me be a part of your journey. I wish you strength. I wish you happiness. I wish you courage.

Blog post by: Kumi Naidoo

Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo was Greenpeace's International Executive Director from November 2009 until December 2015.

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Queremos ônibus que não poluem

Postado por Iara Crepaldi

Em sintonia com demandas da sociedade civíl, Ministério Público Estadual cobra definição de Haddad sobre transição da frota de ônibus para veículos movidos a combustíveis renováveis

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Foto Greenpeace/Iara Crepaldi

Lembra do Busão dos Sonhos que você ajudou a imaginar para a licitação de transportes de São Paulo em agosto? Na época, entre outras atividades de mobilização para engajar a população no planejamento da cidade, o Greenpeace Brasil, a Rede Nossa São Paulo e a Ciclocidade fizeram uma nota técnica sobre o conteúdo da licitação e apresentaram o documento junto com uma carta de demandas à prefeitura. Uma das exigências foi a de um cronograma e de metas claras para que tivéssemos uma frota de ônibus movida a combustíveis 100% renováveis até 2018, conforme determina a lei municipal de mudanças climáticas (14.933/2009). A demanda foi motivada pela inexistência de um planejamento para realização da transição na licitação.
Nesta quinta-feira – um dias após o prefeito Fernando Haddad divulgar nota sobre teste de ônibus elétrico para a frota da cidade e falar sobre a importância da transição para combustíveis renováveis ou tração elétrica até 2018 –, o Ministério Público do Estado de São Paulo abriu um inquerito que retoma a solicitação das três ONGS à prefeitura.
No inquérito, o MP solicita posicionamento definitivo sobre cumprimento da lei até 2018, e a prefeitura tem vinte dias úteis para explicar como essa transição ocorrerá ou justificar por que não irá executá-la.
O prefeito Fernando Haddad já havia sinalizado que a prefeitura pretende cumprir a lei, mas, assim como o MPE, nós também continuamos querendo saber como. Haddad, explica pra gente o que você vai fazer na nossa cidade?

Pacto pelo futuro

Conferência define diretrizes da política indigenista e firma pacto com Estado brasileiro; indígenas destacam que ainda faltam ações concretas do governo para reconquistar a confiança dos povos 

 

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Sônia Guajajara fala diante da plenário final no último dia da 1ª Conferência Nacional de Política Indigenista (© Alan Azevedo / Greenpeace)

O último dia (17) da 1ª Conferência Nacional de Política Indigenista, em Brasília, simbolizou um importante pacto entre os povos indígenas e o Estado brasileiro, com a aprovação de 886 propostas que se consolidarão como as diretrizes da política indigenista no Brasil.
Apresentadas e aprovadas na plenária final, as propostas contemplam as dimensões de território e da necessidade de se dar continuidade aos processos de demarcação e de gestão das terras indígenas; da autodeterminação, participação social e do direito à consulta; do respeito e fomento às concepções próprias de desenvolvimento dos povos indígenas; da afirmação da cidadania e da pluralidade étnica, além do direito à memória e à verdade. Do total, 216 foram acolhidas como propostas urgentes.
Com isso, a expectativa é que o Estado brasileiro execute iniciativas e políticas públicas que afetem ou digam respeito aos povos indígenas a partir das propostas consolidadas na Conferência. Trata-se, acima de tudo, de um gesto de confiança dos indígenas com o poder público, que se comprometeu a mudar a relação entre os índios, a sociedade nacional e o Estado.
Para fechar o evento que reuniu cerca de 1,5 mil participantes, sendo a grande maioria índios de todo o Brasil, o presidente da Fundação Nacional do Índio e representantes do Ministério da Justiça e do Ministério de Relações Exteriores compuseram ao lado de lideranças indígenas a última mesa de debate da programação, com o tema “Pacto pelo Futuro”.

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Nos intervalos da programação, diferentes grupos indígenas se reuniam para cerimônias com cânticos e dança (© Alan Azevedo / Greenpeace)

Sônia Guajajara, coordenadora executiva da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB), não deixou o discurso de cobrança de lado: “Faltou gente nessa mesa, faltou ministérios, secretarias... gostaríamos de um comprometimento muito mais plural”. A liderança destacou que dois pactos foram feitos, um entre os próprios povos indígenas e outro entre eles e o governo.
“Nós firmamos um pacto entre nós, parentes: fortalecer a cada dia a nossa luta. Precisamos ter uma unidade e um posicionamento comum pela defesa dos nossos direitos. Agora, para o governo, qual o nosso pacto? O nosso acordo era por ações concretas, que ainda não aconteceram. Somente quando tivermos uma demonstração verdadeira do governo em favor dos povos indígenas é que poderemos voltar a caminhar juntos”, defendeu a Guajajara.
O presidente da Funai, João Pedro da Costa, garantiu que a fala da presidente Dilma Rousseff no segundo dia da Conferência resume o pacto firmado. “Ela falou do reconhecimento da diversidade ética como característica desse país. Falou do reconhecimento da autonomia dos povos indígenas para tomar decisões com direito à consulta. A presidenta defendeu também a manutenção do concurso da Funai e fortalecimento do órgão”.
O encerramento foi marcado por um grande ritual do povo Guarani-Kaiowá, no qual o presidente da Funai também participou, recebendo a proteção do cacique Marciano Guarani e um lembrete: “não traia nossa confiança”.

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Presidente da Funai recebe proteção de líder Guarani (© Alan Azevedo / Greenpeace)

Visita presidencial

A presidente Dilma Rousseff participou do segundo dia (15) da 1ª Conferência Nacional de Política Indigenista e anunciou a criação do Conselho Nacional de Política Indigenista via decreto presidencial, além da homologação de Terras Indígenas (TIs), sem dizer quais.
Antiga reivindicação do movimento indígena, o Conselho Nacional de Política Indigenista tramita no legislativo por meio do Projeto de Lei 3571/08. Segundo o representante do Ministério da Justiça, a criação do Conselho por meio de decreto do poder executivo traz como limitação sua caracterização como consultivo, pois a criação de um Conselho deliberativo só é possível por meio de lei. Para o cacique Marquinho Xucuru, entretanto, não é interessante aprovar a criação de um Conselho que não possua plena autonomia.

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Presidente Dilma conversa com o Ministro da Justiça José Eduardo Cardozo (© Wilson Dias / Agência Brasil)

Dessa forma, a porposta foi rejeitada em votação da plenária. Os indígenas optaram pela apresentação de uma carta à presidenta Dilma solicitando que ela articule com sua base de apoio os meios para se aprovar a criação de um Conselho Nacional de Política Indigenista que seja, por definição, deliberativo e autônomo.
Por outro lado, a presidente cumpriu sua promessa em relação a homologação de Terras Indígenas no Estado do Amazonas. Foi publicado no Diário Oficial dessa sexta-feira, 18, a demarcação administrativa da TI Arary (município de Borba), da TI Banawá (municípios de Canutama, Lábrea e Tapauá), a TI Cajuhiri-Atravessado, (município de Coari) e da TI Tabocal (município de Careiro).
No entanto, para Maximiliano Tukano, da Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira (Coiab), os compromissos da presidente não foram suficientes: “Ela não tratou da questão da mineração em Terras Indígenas, não falou da Medida Provisória que autoriza a construção de hidrelétricas nas Terras Indígenas. Ela não citou diversas coisas realmente possíveis de serem aplicadas em nossos territórios”.
Protesto no Congresso
Na manhã de quarta-feira, dia 16, participantes da Conferência aproveitaram para juntar forças e protestar no Congresso Nacional contra a Proposta de Emenda Constitucional (PEC) 215 e também contra Eduardo Cunha, aliado da bancada ruralista.
Cerca de mil indígenas ocuparam o espaço das cúpulas do prédio do Parlamento e realizaram diferentes rituais, entre danças e cantos. Após a ocupação da plataforma superior, os indígenas desceram a rampa e se reuniram no gramado em frente ao prédio, sob vigilância dos policiais, exibindo faixas e cartazes.

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Índios ocupam parte superior do Congresso Nacional (© Victor Pires / ISA)

As flames devour Brazil’s Indigenous Lands, communities go hungry

Blogpost by Luana Lila

Video provided by the Missionary Council for Indigenous Peoples (CIMI) of Maranhão

The footage is shaky, but what's happening is clear: a group of women—one with a child on her back—is fighting to put out advancing flames on the forest floor.

This is the life of many Indigenous Peoples who live in Maranhão state Indigenous Lands in Brazil. Indigenous Lands are theoretically protected areas of Amazon rainforest, but local reports indicate that many Indigenous Lands are surrounded by forest fires like the one in the video. In the village of Awá in the Caru Indigenous Land, for example, forest fires are burning within 30 minutes of houses.

And according to Indigenous leaders in the region, the fire is a criminal act, perpetrated by illegal loggers and land grabbers.

This behavior is not new—I wrote about a similar round of fires on Indigenous Lands just weeks ago—but the Brazilian government continues to do little to help Indigenous People fight off the flames, with serious consequences for the residents of the forest.

Fire and hunger

As the government fails to act, hunger is growing in the affected communities.

The Awá people of Maranhão state live exclusively from the forest; their survival depends on hunting and gathering. But the fires are keeping residents from being able to feed their families. Flames surround rivers and areas where fruit is collected. Due to the location of fires in the center of their Indigenous Land, the Awá believe that places where more isolated groups of Awá go for gathering may have already been entirely burned. (Because these groups live in isolation, the specific details remain unknown.)

The situation is so desperate that the Awá and Guajajara people of Maranhão state have begun fighting fires on their own. But as they spend more time fighting flames like the women in the video, they have less time for hunting and searching for food.

“The children ask for meat when we return from fighting the fire. I tell them, we have none, just fire,” said one community member. 

Map shows hot spots on Indigenous Lands of Maranhão in early December. According to INPE (National Institute for Space Research),  between 1 and 15 December there were 2412 hot spots in Arariboia, 1116 in Alto Turiaçu, 302 in Caru and 225 in the Awá Indigenous Land.

When help isn't on the way

According to information from the Missionary Council for Indigenous Peoples (CIMI) of Maranhão from last week, there are roughly 100 Guajajara and 30 Awá fighting the fires and only 45 Prevfogo fire brigade members (the national agency responsible for fighting forest fires).

If the fire is not controlled quickly, this area is likely to suffer the same fate as the Arariboia Indigenous Land, which burned unchecked for two months, destroying 45% of its forests. The Indigenous Lands of Maranhão state—Arariboia, Alto Turiaçu, Awá and now Caru—continue to burn without any effective action from the federal government.

What is happening in Maranhão is a result of the lack of an effective policy to protect Indigenous Lands in Brazil. More firefighters is a good place to start. But the federal government also needs to truly protect indigenous lands: by enforcing restrictions on logging, stopping invasions into the land and monitoring for  forest fires.

What little is left of the Amazon rainforest in Maranhão lies in Indigenous Lands and protected areas like Rebio do Gurupi, which is also on fire. The people and the forest need protection. Please share their story and help pressure the government of Brazil to step up for the Indigenous Peoples of Maranhão state.

Luana Lila is an Amazon Communications Officer at Greenpeace Brazil

48 coisas para fazer nas 48 horas sem Whats App

Postado por Juliana Costta

O Whats App ficará fora do ar por 48 horas e você pode aproveitar todo esse tempo sobrando para ajudar o meio ambiente. Para te dar uma mão, listamos 48 coisas que você pode fazer nesse momento:

 

1 - Doe um tweet por dia para o Greenpeace

2 - Assine a petição pelo Desmatamento Zero e ajude a acabar com o desmatamento no Brasil

3 - Torne-se um voluntário do Greenpeace

4 - Encha o SAC do Pão de Açúcar e exija carne sem desmatamento

5 - Compre seu ingresso para o show Sou Minas Gerais. O valor será revertido para ajudar a cidade de Mariana (MG)

6 - Jogue o Solariza e concorra a uma instalação de painéis de energia solar para sua casa

7 - Doe para o Greenpeace e ajude-nos a continuar expondo empresas e governos que destroem o meio ambiente

8 - Curta nossa página do Facebook

9 - Cobre dos supermercados o fim da carne vinda de áreas de desmatamento e com utilização de trabalho escravo

10 - Ajude a divulgar as campanhas do Greenpeace com seu blog

11 - Peça para o governo mais incentivos para energia solar e, assim, ajudar a reduzir o valor da sua conta de energia

13 - Siga-nos no Snapchat: greenpeacebr

14 - Torne-se um ativista pacífico com os materiais que criamos “Faça você mesmo”

15 - Exija do governo o fim da exploração de madeira ilegal na Amazônia

16 - Proteste nas “ruas” da internet sendo um ciberativista

17 - Peça o fim dos contratos que permitem as grandes empresas de São Paulo ganharem desconto por gastar mais água

18 - Conheça o nosso trabalho na Amazônia

19 - Siga-nos no Twitter

20 - Vá de bike para o trabalho ou para casa e aproveite esse tempo para curtir a cidade

21 - Conheça a história do Greenpeace no mundo

22 - Pressione os Senadores e Senadoras para não aprovarem o PLS 654. Se aprovado, ele enfraquecerá o licenciamento ambiental no Brasil, e desastres como o de Mariana poderão se tornar rotina

23 - Exija a criação de um santuário no Ártico

24 - Conheça o nosso trabalho em Clima e Energia

25 - Siga-nos no Google Plus

24 - Confira a nova edição da Revista Greenpeace

25 - Conheça a história do Greenpeace Brasil

26 - Venha trabalhar conosco. Conheça as vagas em aberto

27 - Compre um Calendário Greenpeace 2016

28 - Conheça as plataformas que estão trabalhando no pré-sal – e descubra que a maioria delas são verdadeiras latas velhas

29 - Exija a verdade da Volkswagen! Assine a petição

30 - Encha o SAC do Pão de Açúcar, de novo. Eles precisam garantir que a carne que vendem não seja responsável pelo desmatamento na Amazônia

31 - Assine a newsletter do Greenpeace e fique por dentro de tudo o que fazemos até quando o Whats App estiver no ar!

32 - Siga-nos no Instagram

33 - Entenda a importância da primeira Conferência Indigenista, que acontece esta semana

34 - Divulgue o show Sou Minas Gerais. Toda a verba arrecadada será revertida para ajudar as vítimas do município de Mariana (MG)

35 - Inspire-se com a história da liderança indígena Sônia Guajajara

36 - Ajude a fazer do #DesmatamentoZero um grande movimento. Adquira uma camiseta feita em parceria com o estilista Ronaldo Fraga

37 - Confira a matéria especial que fizemos em parceria com os Jornalistas Livres sobre Mariana (MG)

38 - Ajude a Mudar o mundo. #VamosMudaroMundo

39 - A energia solar teve duas vitórias importantes no Brasil neste mês. Confira quais foram

40 - Ligue para o Pão de Açúcar e exija carne sem desmatamento 0800 77 327 32

41 - Confirme presença no evento do Facebook do show Sou Minas Gerais

42 - Receba uma ligação do Greenpeace e converse conosco

43 - Use apenas transporte público e converse com uma pessoa que você não conhece

44 - Siga-nos no YouTube e receba o conteúdo antes de todo mundo

45 - Exija, pelas redes sociais, que a Volkswagem diga a verdade – e que tenha carros com motores mais eficientes e menos poluidores

46 - Entenda como Acordo de Paris, feito na #COP21, pode ajudar a vivermos num mundo melhor

47 - Leia o nosso HQ animado sobre a história do povo Munduruku e como eles serão impactados pela construção de hidrelétricas

48 - E, por fim, visite a casa daquele amigo para quem você escreveria uma mensagem. E mostre esta lista para ele.

Dezembro, um mês de vitórias rumo a um Brasil mais solar

Nesta quarta-feira, foi aprovado na Comissão de Minas e Energia o PL do Sol, que poderá reduzir os impostos dos sistemas fotovoltaicos. E também, medidas que irão incentivar a adoção de sistemas de energia solar em escolas do país 

 

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Multiplicadores solares instalam placas em São Paulo. (©Paulo Pereira/Greenpeace)

O mês de dezembro está se mostrando um dos mais ensolarados de 2015 – pelo menos no que diz respeito à pauta de energia solar junto ao Congresso Nacional.
Nesta quarta-feira (16/12), o PL do Sol (8322/14) foi aprovado na Comissão de Minas e Energia (CME) da Câmara dos Deputados, sendo essa a terceira boa notícia dos últimos dias para que em breve o Brasil conte com muito mais placas fotovoltaicas gerando eletricidade.
Esse projeto de lei prevê isenções de tributos em alguns componentes dos sistemas fotovoltaicos, tornando seu acesso 20% mais barato para o consumidor final. Além disso, o projeto também prevê a liberação do uso do Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) para o cidadão que tenha interesse em gerar sua própria eletricidade a partir do sol e economizar na conta de luz. Se for aprovado e virar lei, o PL será um passo importante para a disseminação da energia solar no Brasil, afinal, o sistema se tornará muito mais acessível a todos os brasileiros.
A votação do PL na CME contou com apoio do Greenpeace e dos internautas que, desde segunda-feira, fizeram pressão nas redes sociais dos deputados da Comissão, pedindo a eles que aprovassem o texto. Em três dias, foram quase 35 mil interações do público, entre curtidas, compartilhamentos e comentários no Facebook e Twitter.
O próximo passo agora é a aprovação do PL do Sol na Comissão de Finanças e Tributação. “Nessa etapa, a mobilização e pressão popular serão ainda mais importantes, pois o governo já deu mostras de que resistirá ao projeto”, explica Bárbara Rubim, da campanha de Clima e Energia do Greenpeace Brasil.
Mas, assim como o ano não chegou ao fim, as boas novas para a energia solar também não.
Hoje também foi aprovado no plenário do Congresso o Plano Plurianual e a Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentários, instrumentos que definem como será o orçamento federal nos próximos anos. Os projetos foram aprovados com emendas que criam dotações para a energia solar em prédios públicos, principalmente em escolas. Essas emendas também fazem parte de um esforço que o Greenpeace realizou junto aos parlamentares ao longo do ano. Agora, os projetos seguem para sanção da Presidenta Dilma Rousseff.
“Ainda temos um caminho a percorrer, mas as vitórias de hoje nos colocam mais perto de um Brasil que produz sua eletricidade sem prejudicar o meio ambiente, nem pesar no bolso do consumidor. A meta que lançamos no início de 2014, de termos um milhão de telhados solares até 2020, está cada vez mais próxima”, concluiu Rubim.