Taipei, Taiwan — Today, Greenpeace East Asia activists confronted US semiconductor giant NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in Taipei face-to-face, demanding that the AI chip monolith and its billionaire founder take responsibility for the soaring energy demands and carbon emissions across its supply chain, especially in the East Asian manufacturing hub of Taiwan, where most of its hardware is produced.

Activists intercepted Huang outside the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Taipei’s Songshan District ahead of his scheduled dinner with local technology executives and suppliers. They presented him with a 3D-printed, five-layer model cake that read: “AI Needs Renewable Energy”—a stunt turning Huang’s own recent industry remarks, where he called energy the foundational layer of AI development [1], into a direct demand for climate action. 

Confronted with the direct question, “Can you invest in renewable energy together with your suppliers in Taiwan?” Huang replied positively and signed the model cake. Greenpeace East Asia aims to hold him accountable for his words. 

Lena Chang, Climate and Energy Campaigner in Greenpeace East Asia’s Taipei office, said:

“With half of NVIDIA’s top 20 hardware suppliers operating in Taiwan, the island forms the bedrock of the company’s global supply chain. Yet, because the local grid relies heavily on fossil fuels, Taiwanese communities carry the unfair burden of severe grid strain and carbon pollution as a result of the AI frenzy.”

The action builds on a global wave of resistance against tech billionaires prioritizing rapid expansion over environmental limits. It follows an earlier protest by Greenpeace USA at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in San Jose in March, which targeted the company’s failure to address its growing carbon footprint with renewable energy.

Driven by soaring electricity consumption, NVIDIA’s supply chain emissions more than doubled between 2023 and 2025, dumping a massive environmental burden onto Taiwan [2], which manufactures over 90% of advanced chips globally [3]. NVIDIA’s primary manufacturer, TSMC, alone accounts for nearly 10% of Taiwan’s total electricity [4], forcing a dangerous expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens local public health and the energy transition [5]. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has lagged behind other global AI giants in decarbonization [6] and has yet to deploy its massive profits toward direct renewable energy investments in its East Asian manufacturing hubs [7].

Avex Li, Greenpeace East Asia Supply Chain Project Lead, said:

“Nvidia’s record-breaking earnings show once again that the AI frenzy is making extraordinary profits for a handful of powerful companies and billionaires. They cannot pretend they lack the power or resources to change course. It is time for them to take responsibility for building an AI future powered by renewable energy, not fossil fuels. ”

Greenpeace East Asia is demanding that NVIDIA act to:

1. Expand its 100% renewable energy target from its own corporate operations to cover its entire manufacturing supply chain by 2030.
2. Direct a substantial portion of NVIDIA’s capital profits into supplier-led renewable energy infrastructure across East Asian manufacturing hubs

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Notes:

Photos available in the Greenpeace Media Library.

[1] NVIDIA Blog, “AI is a 5-Layer Cake”

[2] Greenpeace East Asia Report, “NVIDIA’s Green Illusion”

[3] Industry market share data via the International Trade Administration, “Taiwan Semiconductors & AI”

[4] Based on metrics from the TSMC Sustainability Report and data from the Energy Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, link 1, link 2

[5] Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), “Public health impacts from electronics industry electricity consumption in Taiwan”

[6] Greenpeace East Asia Report, “Nvidia Ranks Last on AI Supply Chain Decarbonization, Greenpeace Report Finds”

[7] Based on Greenpeace East Asia’s monitoring of public corporate records, NVIDIA has made no public disclosure of any direct investments in renewable energy in East Asia to date.

Contacts:

Yujie Xue, International Communications Officer, Greenpeace East Asia, +852 5127 3416 (East/Southeast Asia timezone), yujie.xue@greenpeace.org  

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (Available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org 

Amsterdam, Netherlands — Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem and Children’s and Family Emmy Award-nominated actress Yasmin Finney star in a new film, SLAPP Suit, that dramatises the threat of — and resistance to  — abusive SLAPP lawsuits, released globally today by Greenpeace International.  

WATCH THE FILM HERE

Billionaire bullies and corporate polluters use Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) to bury activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and non-profit organisations in legal fees, drain their time and resources, and ultimately make the cost of dissent too high. US-based fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer has been waging back-to-back abusive SLAPP lawsuits against Greenpeace in the US and Greenpeace International for nearly a decade in a blatant attempt to silence free speech, erase Indigenous leadership of the Standing Rock movement, and punish solidarity with peaceful resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Academy Award-winning actor and activist Javier Bardem said: “I made this film with Greenpeace because they’re fighting a monumental legal battle about free speech, but really it’s about something much bigger: widespread attempts to silence activism. The type of lawsuits used by pipeline company Energy Transfer are also being used to silence journalists, artists and ordinary people who care about their communities. The question is not why to speak out. But how could we not, if we want to have the same freedom in the future?”

The threat of corporate intimidation tactics like SLAPP lawsuits is far bigger than Greenpeace. Corporate polluters and greedy oligarchs know protest works — that’s why they’re trying to make the stakes so high no one will be willing to take the risk to defend people or the planet. 

Children’s and Family Emmy Award-nominated UK actress Yasmin Finney said: “The right to protest in the UK is a huge battle. People demanding better is what built our country, but increasingly it’s becoming criminalised. Not enough people believe or see that our rights are really under threat, and that’s why we made this film: Greenpeace’s legal fight against Energy Transfer is one example of resistance, but there are many more. Bullies respond to strength and togetherness, and that’s what we need more of right now.”

Big Oil companies Shell, Total, and ENI have also filed SLAPPs against Greenpeace entities in recent years. A couple of these cases have been successfully stopped in their tracks. Meanwhile, Greenpeace organisations the US and Greenpeace International continue the legal fight against the US$345 million judgment in Energy Transfer’s abusive lawsuit in North Dakota. In Europe, Netherlands-based Greenpeace International is pursuing justice with a landmark anti-SLAPP case that aims to hold Energy Transfer accountable for its back-to-back abusive lawsuits under Dutch law and the EU’s new anti-SLAPP directive. 

Susannah Compton, Greenpeace International, Head of Programme – Civic Resistance and Freedoms said: “The global threat of corporate intimidation tactics such as SLAPP lawsuits is an existential crisis for freedom of speech and protest for everyone who dares speak out against the powerful – whether Greenpeace would agree with them or not. If we do not defend our right to resist, we surrender the future to a few oligarchs who see power as a tool for empire rather than a shared responsibility.”

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Notes:

Photo and video collections: Stills and behind the scenes gallery are available in the Greenpeace Media Library. The full film, SLAPP Suit, is available to watch on Greenpeace YouTube channel.

Contacts:
Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

Norwegian Sea, Arctic — While conducting a scientific survey of vulnerable and unexplored deep-sea ecosystems along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, Greenpeace [1] deployed an underwater robot from 2,300 meters below the surface, in the deepest banner protest ever made from the seabed demanding global leaders: LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE!

Photo and video available here.

Dr. Sandra Schöttner, Chief Scientist for the Deep Arctic Expedition, Greenpeace International said: “This marks the deepest banner protest in history, to speak for ecosystems that have no voice of their own. World leaders have already promised to protect 30 percent of the oceans, now they must listen to the science and actually do it. We cannot meet our global goals if we also allow industrial exploitation of unexplored and vulnerable ecosystems in the deep sea. It is high time that leaders keep their promises and give the oceans a chance to recover.”

The banner was brought down to 2315 metres below sea level by the expedition’s remotely operated vehicle – ROV Holly – and held up in front of the hydrothermal vent field called “Loki’s Castle”, a unique volcanic ecosystem where black smokers are emitting 300–320 °C fluid from deep within the ocean crust. Scientists believe our own distant ancestors may have looked just like the microbes living on structures like these, making Loki’s Castle a “cradle” of complex life that could hold the key to how life on Earth once started.

The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth due to climate change, and as the industrial frontier expands toward the deep sea, through threats like deep-sea mining, Greenpeace warns that these unique ‘biodiversity hotspots’ are at risk of irreversible disruption.

Dr. Sandra Schöttner said: “It is not too late to act. Science clearly predicts the limits of what our planet can endure, but human action determines our survival. By safeguarding these deep-sea ecosystems within a global network of ocean sanctuaries and establishing a moratorium on deep sea mining, we can create a resilient safety net for marine life, and protect the health of our global oceans for generations to come.”

The Deep Arctic Expedition brings together world-leading scientists to explore Arctic seamounts and hydrothermal vent fields – all while livestreaming the science from the Arctic seabed on Greenpeace International’s youtube channel. The area of the expedition was opened for deep sea mining by the Norwegian government in 2024, but the plans were halted last year after protests from environmental organisations, fishermen, scientists and the green opposition parties in Norway.[3] Deep sea mining would, according to many scientists, cause irreversible damage to vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems, including the destruction of habitats, and possibly species extinction.

Greenpeace is calling on world leaders to honor global climate targets, implement the UN Ocean Treaty to protect 30% of the global ocean by 2030, and establish an immediate moratorium on deep-sea mining.

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Photos, video and maps of Greenpeace’s Arctic Deep expedition are available in the Greenpeace Media Library.

Join the Arctic expedition Whatsapp channel for updates and divestream notifications. Watch the divestreams on Youtube.

Notes:

[1] Greenpeace International, Greenpeace Germany and Greenpeace Nordicare leading the Deep Arctic Expedition from 8 May – 5 June
[2] Deep-sea mining: Norway halts controversial practice until 2029 (Euronews) 

Contact:
Daniel Bengtsson, Communications Lead Onboard, Greenpeace Nordic, +46 70 300 9510 (Whatsapp/Signal), daniel.bengtsson@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org 

We are almost halfway through the year, events both positive and negative rock the world. Environmental issues have never been separate from politics, economics, or human rights, and this year has underscored how deeply they are interconnected. The realities of war, attacks on activism, waste from fast fashion, environmental resistance, and the accelerating impact of the climate crisis cannot be ignored. There is no better time to come together as communities to seek accountability, and as countries to transition to green energy, than now.

To help you stay up to date with everything you might have missed since the beginning of the year, here’s a list of some of the most read pieces on our website so far in 2026.

War and the environment

As wars rage on in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is clear that conflict is not only an immediate human tragedy, marked by bombardments, forced displacement, famine, sexual violence and constant terror, but also an environmental one, with impacts on public health, ecosystems and the climate that extend far beyond the frontlines and can leave entire regions uninhabitable for decades after the weapons fall silent.

Readers engaged deeply with how the US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment and how oil tankers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz south of Iran threatens the Gulf ecosystem with the potential to leave ecological destruction that could last generations. These pieces highlight how war accelerates climate vulnerability while disrupting communities already facing environmental injustice.

Why nuclear power is not the way

Nuclear power is often hailed as a magic bullet solution for the rapid and large-scale decarbonisation of our societies which we all know needs to happen if we have any hope of mitigating the worst effects of the unfolding climate emergency. Here are six reasons why nuclear power is not the way to a green and peaceful zero carbon future.

A just and green transition is possible

Coverage around renewable energy and the green transition also ranks highly among our audience. Readers are drawn to stories exploring what a fair and just transition could look like. As countries debate how to move away from fossil fuels, here is a visual journey into China’s green transition.

“We Will Not Be Silenced” — environmental activism in the courts

The past two years have seen many climate justice cases at the courts. The surge of climate cases in front of local and international courts and tribunals is only increasing, and the courts are making pivotal decisions.

As climate movements gain momentum globally, lawsuits and political pressure against campaigners have also intensified. A key corporate intimidation tactic is a type of predatory lawsuit known as a SLAPP – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. US pipeline giant Energy Transfer has been waging repeated abusive SLAPP lawsuits against Greenpeace in the US and Greenpeace International for nearly a decade. Big Oil companies Shell, Total, and ENI have also filed SLAPPs against other Greenpeace entities in recent years.

The legal fight continues. In February 2026, a North Dakota District Court returned a US$345 million judgement against Greenpeace in the US and Greenpeace International. The Greenpeace entities continue to pursue justice, filing a motion for a new trial and, if necessary, appealing to the North Dakota Supreme Court . This is What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace. 

Fast fashion and consumerism 

Fast fashion will never be green, and here are 4 reasons why.

Fast fashion’s impacts on people (consumers and workers) and the environment have become harder to hide. But fast fashion brands continue to greenwash instead of acknowledging that their business model is inherently destructive and making the necessary changes. The interest in these articles suggests a shift, forget about the price tag, this is the hidden cost of fast fashion.

Environmentalism – for the people and planet

In 2025, Greenpeace scientists and specialists from the Radiation Protection Advisors team embarked on a six-week tour on-board the Rainbow Warrior, Reflections from a Greenpeace nuclear specialist highlights one of the most disturbing chapters in human history in the Marshall Islands.

Since 2018, this article on a brief history of environmentalism by Rex Weyler reflects on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace’s past, present, and future.

Speaking of the future, the AI boom is being sold as inevitable progress, but the real question is not whether artificial intelligence can do useful things in theory. It is who owns it, who profits from it, what it is mostly being used for, and who pays the environmental and political bill when the hype turns into microchip manufacturing plants, data centres, rising power demand, water stress, surveillance and attacks on democratic life. This blog on the energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy highlights just that. 

Deforestation and industrial livestock agriculture expansion continue to tear down forests, land and water resources. The Amazon Forest is home to 10% of all known species of animals, these animals face an uncertain future. Here’s a definitive guide to the animals of the Amazon Rainforest who rely entirely on the rainforest for food, protection, and life itself.

Deep in the oceans, the threat of deep sea mining compelled Pelenatita Kara, the National Deep Sea Mining Coordinator for the Civil Society Forum Tonga, to write a letter to Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, the frontrunner company in starting deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean. She confronts the CEO on his total lack of regard to human and business integrity, locking my country in a difficult financial position and opening it up for exploitation

Plastics, climate crisis and community action 

Unsurprisingly, what science says about microplastics and chemicals in ready meals ranks among the most-read pieces, this piece details what science says around reheating plastic food containers and the long-term human health impacts.

Not all hope is lost, communities are organising, organisations collaborating to resist and bring polluters to account and unmask the real faces behind corporations playing with our lives in the shadows. 

In true Greenpeace spirit we remain committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture. Every week, we highlight our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world, through the Greenpeace Pictures of the week segment.

The climate crisis is a present reality, these articles reflect the intersectionality of climate impacts across health, resources, weather and our collective future. Governments aren’t acting fast enough to reduce our exposure and protect their people. There’s no shortage of things we can do to improve this situation. The most critical one is to make laws and take action for the people and not for profits.

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