We’re a citizens movement. We want to stop climate change, reverse biodiversity loss, create more space for wild nature, and help emerging countries develop.
This was filmed two years ago, shortly after we launched our organization. Back then, we were called RePlanet and were a collection of European organisations.
Since then, we have expanded to more than 18 countries globally and encountered trademark issues, leading us to rebrand
We are deeply troubled by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam in
#Ukraine
. This is a major humanitarian and environmental disaster.
We call on Putin to end this war by withdrawing Russian forces from Ukraine.
Be one of 50k people across 🌍 persuading the 🇩🇪German government to keep its nuclear electricity.
Your personal share of the emissions saved - by not burning lignite coal - will be bigger in one year than your carbon footprint over your whole life.
Here's how 🧵
🚨BREAKING: Nobel Laureates and climate scientists publish open letter calling on the German Chancellor to reverse tomorrow’s planned shut down of Germany’s nuclear power.
The letter, coordinated by
@ReplanetDACH
is covered in the global press. 1/
Today in Berlin a citizen led pro-nuclear demonstration hugely outnumbered the paid up staff of anti-nuclear Greenpeace with their slick and expensive stage set piece.
Such an inbalance represents the sentiments of the public. Around the world polling makes it abundantly clear
Last night activists projected a 200m high video of Ukrainian President Zelensky onto the recently shuttered Grohnde nuclear power plant, calling for nuclear energy to be restarted to replace imports of Russian oil and gas.
This is part of our
#switchoffputin
campaign.
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France's decision to stand firm on the inclusion of nuclear energy as part of efforts to transition away from fossil fuels is welcomed.
Germany's insistence on putting labels like renewables and Green ahead of outcomes puts the clean energy transition in jeopardy.
Science wins!
EU Parliament has rejected a motion to exclude nuclear energy from the
#EUTaxonomy
.
This is a huge win for science and for climate action.
Well done to all those who campaigned for this outcome. Together we can build a better future.
#DearGreenpeace
It’s a climate emergency! Drop your
old-fashioned and unscientific opposition to nuclear power, and join us in the fight against fossil fuels instead!
Today I am launching the campaign
#DearGreenpeace
with
@letsreplanet
which asks
@Greenpeace
to drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future.
Sign my petition
Why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.🧵
Europe it's time to
#SwitchoffPutin
and help end the war in
#Ukraine
.
Watch
@mark_lynas
outline our plan for how Europe can immediately end Russian fossil fuel imports & stop funding Russia's war machine.
We welcome the announcement by
@GreenpeaceSuomi
that they have no plans for new campaigns against nuclear power.
Hopefully the rest of Greenpeace will join them in recognising that the real fight is against
#ClimateChange
& fossil fuels.
Story:
Science wins!
MEPs vote in favour of supporting greater use of New Genomic Techniques (
#NGTs
) in the EU.
This is a huge step toward more sustainable agriculture.
Thank you to everyone who has taken action toward this outcome. 💚🎉
What looks like a dystopian film is in fact reality & the result of Germany's policy to phase out nuclear instead of dirty & deadly lignite coal.
Police stand guard as this giant machine consumes the earth toward the village of
#Lutzerath
.
Farmers across the Philippines will now have to rip up their crops after Greenpeace successfully convinces a court to block golden rice cultivation.
This decision will have dire consequences for the lives of millions of children in some of the world's poorest countries.
The German government has insisted that its impossible to keep their nuclear plants running. Operators are saying this isn't true and there is still time for the government to avoid the shutdowns.
@Bundeskanzler
over to you to do the right thing.
Former French Minister of the Environment and prominant anti nuclear figure, Corinne Lepage, is trying to shutdown public accountability of her work by suing WePlaneteer, and environment and nuclear advocate
@MyrtoTripathi
.
Please support Myrto defend herself and the crucial
When the war in Ukraine is over, anti-nuclear EU member states "will have to sit down and engage in serious self-criticism," International Energy Agency Director Fatih Birol said on Wednesday (April 5). , during a conference at Science Po Paris.
The Australian parliament is taking submissions until Jan 16 on whether they should lift the national ban on nuclear energy.
Anyone can make a submission & we have put together a tool to help you quickly make a submission.
#NetZeroNeedsNuclear
#auspol
Senior
@Greenpeace
advisor said we can reach climate goals just with wind, solar & less energy use.
Problem is we need more electricity, not less, as we electrify our transport, our industries, food production & our homes.
Nuclear can help us achieve this.
#DearGreenpeace
A freedom of information investigation has found that Green party Minister Robert Habeck and Greens appointed bureaucrats colluded to mislead the public about the possibility of extending the operational lifetime of German nuclear power plants.
The damning investigation found
Greenpeace is celebrating the end of nuclear energy in Germany 😬
RePlanet is extremely troubled to see our fellow environmentalists welcome the end of clean energy sources.
It’s time to stop childish campaigning and get serious about the climate crisis.
BERLIN: GREENPEACE CELEBRATES WITH SMOKE, WASTE, DINOSAUR
@JTrittin
, self-described "Architect" of Germany's turn towards Russian gas away from nuclear as Environment Minster under Chancellor G. Schroeder (later Gazprom board member), celebrates close of Germany's last reactors
Have you heard of precision fermentation?
@GeorgeMonbiot
explains why it's the most important environmental technology on earth today.
Learn more at
#RebootFood
This is a major shift from the 🇩🇪 government.
The science is clear, keeping nuclear plants operational protects the environment & the economy, something environmental and energy experts have been saying for many years.
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🚨BREAKING: Over 1,000 scientists in 14 countries hold historic demonstrations in support of gene editing.
The scientists are urging MEPs to back New Genomic Techniques (
#NGTs
) ahead of a crunch vote in the EU parliament tomorrow.
Please like and share if you believe in
#DearGreenpeace
, please drop your opposition to nuclear energy and direct your substantial resources to fighting fossil fuels.
This was the message
@ia_aanstoot
& her friends travelled by train from Sweden to Hamburg to deliver a message to
@Greenpeace
over the weekend.
Young
🌍
#ClimateAction
. Anyone can sign. Takes 3 mins.
3 days left to sign this OFFICIAL petition to the Gvnment. They will HAVE to reconsider their disastrous Nuclear Power phase-out, if the petition hits 50k signatories.
YOU can make a difference by signing & Sharing.
🧵
Join the
@econucleares
rally next month to Save Spanish Nuclear!
Ensuring nuclear plants remain operation for as long as possible is one of the best ways to deliver clean energy and address the climate crisis.
Yet the Spanish government have announced an unnecessary phase out
The
@guardianeco
is today reporting on our
#RebootFood
campaign calling for animal agriculture to be phased out and replaced with identical foods made with precision fermentation.
This needs to be on the agenda at
#COP27
Join RePlanet,
@Nuklearia
,
@energybants
&
@ziontree
in Berlin this Saturday to protest the forced shutdown of Germany's last 3 nuclear plants.
This is a climate destructive policy that Germany wishes to also force on the rest of Europe.
🚨Breaking: Major clean energy pledge signed at
#COP28
!
The following countries have pledged to triple nuclear capacity by 2050:
Romania 🇷🇴
Finland 🇫🇮
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Slovakia 🇸🇰
Republic of Korea 🇰🇷
Sweden 🇸🇪
France 🇫🇷
UAE 🇦🇪
Canada 🇨🇦
United States 🇺🇸
Ukraine 🇺🇦
As part of our
#switchoffputin
campaign activists projected a 200m high video of Ukrainian President Zelensky onto the recently shuttered Grohnde nuclear power plant, calling for nuclear energy to be restarted to replace imports of Russian oil and gas.
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A growing alliance of EU countries are calling for nuclear energy to be given the same access to finance as other forms of clean energy.
We are pleased to see this as we have been advocating for several years that including nuclear energy will ensure we can achieve our climate
The German nuclear phase out has been a disaster for Germany seeing the country failing to achieve their climate goals, severely impacting industry, and causing unnecessary and socially unjust high energy costs for consumers.
Sign our petition to call on the German government to
"Our conclusion is that it is not only ethically justifiable to use nuclear energy, but for some countries even ethically required.", philosophers
@simonfriederich
&
@mboudry
.
"In 2017 I was co-organizer of an action to close Tihange-2. ... The reactor will close for good on January 31. Again I will demonstrate – and this time against the closure. Because I've changed my mind."
Switching off nuclear means switching on more coal, more gas and locking in up to a billion tons of extra carbon emissions that will lead to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
Read the open letter here in English 5/
Why are RePlanet activists taking to the streets of Berlin today in defence of nuclear energy?
Because despite years of misinformation, nuclear energy remains our most powerful tool against the climate crisis!
Our report finds it would be virtually impossible to get rid of Russian oil & gas unless nuclear shut-downs in several European countries are reversed, and currently
shuttered
#nuclear
plants are restarted.
There is broad support for new nuclear across Europe.
6/
Young climate activists call on Greenpeace to stop campaigning against clean nuclear energy.
Last year
@ia_aanstoot
and a group of other young climate activists launched a campaign called
#DearGreenpeace
.
They called on the well resourced organisation to stop campaigning
WePlanet is here to Stand Up For Nuclear.
Net Zero without nuclear is a fairytale.
Nuclear and renewables can ensure a clean, prosperous future for humanity.
#NES2024
🚨BREAKING: The world wants new nuclear!
RePlanet,
@ThirdWayEnergy
,
@ClearPathAction
, &
@pe_coalition
present the most comprehensive recent multinational survey of public attitudes to nuclear energy.
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Environmentalists have been left disappointed by this newsletter being handed out today at
#COP28
by
@CANIntl
.
To achieve our sustainable development goals and solve the
#ClimateCrisis
, we can't afford organisations fighting half a century old battles against clean energy.
A 🧵
This is ecocide!
The world is witnessing an environmental catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine. The world has shown incredible solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the face of the brutal Russian invasion.
Now we need to step up again in the face of this unfolding environmental
@mark_lynas
is co-author of our
#SwitchoffPutin
report which outlines how Europe can immediately cease fossil fuel imports from Russia.
Find the report here:
This morning
@ia_aanstoot
spoke with BBC World Service about why she is taking action and young climate activists are asking
@Greenpeace
to drop their opposition to nuclear energy.
#DearGreenpeace
The wins keep coming this week!
Europe appears to be throwing off the shackles of anti-science fearmongering and embracing the technologies which will help us become, in the words of
@_HannahRitchie
, the first sustainable generation.
Nuclear alongside other sources of clean
Hello world! We’re RePlanet. We believe we can lift humanity up, while setting nature free. How? Let's concentrate our footprint to provide space for abundant nature.
Germany's famous energy transition has left it hopelessly reliant on fossil fuels despite enormous investment in renewables.
Wind & solar are playing their part but the German government isn't. The nuclear phase-out instead of fossil fuels is to blame.
🚨Breaking: Win for sustainable agriculture in the EU!
@EU_ENV
committee votes in favour of support for
#NGTs
.
It will now go to a final vote before the full
@Europarl_EN
.
📢BREAKING: Activists FLYPOST “official apologies” around COP27 conference, apologising for MEAT and DAIRY being on the menu.
🧵
#COP27
#ClimateAction
#plantbased
The story is also making headlines in Poland and other European nations. So why so much press interest?
Because the world stands in condemnation of Germany’s climate crime of switching off clean nuclear power. 4/
NOW: RePlanet campaigners join an international coalition of groups in Berlin to protest the German government’s reckless shut down of clean nuclear energy.
We may be small in number, but we have peer reviewed science on our side 🔥
@energybants
@MyrtoTripathi
@AdamBlazowski
#ClimateAction
win!
Germany to keep their remaining 3 nuclear plants operational until April, 2023.
Next step, convince the German government to at minimum keep them running until the last fossil fuels exist system.
🧬Urgent Appeal for Support on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in Europe 🌍🔬
🚨 An urgent call to action! Our open letter, endorsed by 35 Nobel laureates and 1,000 scientists, is pleading with MEPs to back New Genomic Techniques (NGTs).
It's time to reject anti-science
Germany likes to champion itself as a climate leader and yet they would rather burn more coal than to stop their nuclear phase-out.
Leading environmentalists & scientists have been warning German policy makers for years the phase-out was problematic.
As reported in the New York Times this morning the letter states: “We call on you to use the remaining German nuclear power plants in order to alleviate the energy crisis and help achieve Germany’s climate targets.”
But that’s not all… 2/
Biomass is the SCAM that we all fell for
Biomass is not carbon neutral, sustainable or green 🪵
Let's debunk the myth of biomass as a climate friendly energy source, and explore why even 'green' countries like Denmark may not be as eco-friendly as they seem.
A thread 🧵
(1/17)
GERMANY REACTOR NEWS: ADDITIONAL REACTORS CAN BE RESTARTED
Our new report's out with a shocking find:
8, not 6, reactors can be saved!
Krümmel, big enough to power a million people, still has an operating license despite closing 2011: saved by antinuclear politics, ironically
.
@GeorgeMonbiot
points out that environmentalists have been very good at campaigning against fossil fuels but the environmental impacts of food production often get overlooked.
That's why we are campaigning to
#RebootFood
to reduce environmental impacts and improve the security
After being excluded for 26 years, the worlds second largest source of clean energy is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Bloomberg is reporting that the US & UK will be pushing for a tripling of nuclear generation by 2050 to help speed up the phase out of fossil
Nuclear is a proven source of clean energy.
Some governments may choose not to utilise this technology but they should not prevent others from doing so as part of their clean energy transition.
The emphasis should have always been on clean energy rather than renewable energy.
Focussing on renewable energy has allowed dirty energy like biomass to be built instead of clean nuclear.
We're pleased to see governments finally move toward a clean energy policy.
Article:
We welcome
@GretaThunberg
's statement that closing down nuclear plants and replacing them with fossil fuels is a bad idea.
We hope
@Fridays4future
will join us in sharing this petition calling on the German government to not replace nuclear with fossil fuels.
#ClimateAction
🌍
#ClimateAction
. Anyone can sign. Takes 3 mins.
3 days left to sign this OFFICIAL petition to the Gvnment. They will HAVE to reconsider their disastrous Nuclear Power phase-out, if the petition hits 50k signatories.
YOU can make a difference by signing & Sharing.
🧵
Activists concerned about Climate Change have gathered at the
@Europarl_EN
in support of nuclear energy in the
#EUTaxonomy
.
The science is clear, nuclear meets the requirements of the taxonomy.
#NuclearBelongsIn
Please support the most important Europe-wide action this year:
- With nuclear we can
#switchoffputin
- European citizens support it
- Net Zero requires it
- Environmentalists in 10 countries say 'ja bitte!'
Be there & show the EU the green movement is no longer anti-nuclear.
Passionate climate activists gathered in Berlin on Saturday to demand the German government fight
#climatechange
instead of nuclear energy.
Great to see these young activists from our RePlanet network & XR Poland, including Ariel who is just 14. 💚
Yesterday over 1,000 scientists in 14 countries hold historic demonstrations in support of gene editing.
The scientists are urging MEPs to back New Genomic Techniques (
#NGTs
) ahead of a crunch vote in the EU parliament tomorrow.
We wanted to give them a shout out for taking
We may be challenging Greenpeace in court over the EU taxonomy but we are asking them to drop their opposition to nuclear globally.
If you live on earth and want a better future, sign our petition today -
Today I am launching the campaign
#DearGreenpeace
with
@letsreplanet
which asks
@Greenpeace
to drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future.
Sign my petition
Why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.🧵
🌍
#ClimateAction
. Anyone can sign. Takes 3 mins.
In the past 24hrs more than 10k of you have signed this OFFICIAL petition to the 🇩🇪 Government.
Less than 4,000 signatures are now required before they will be required to consider the petition.
YOU can make a difference.
🧵
Say it louder for the people in the back!
"From the perspective of both human health and climate change, it matters less whether we transition to nuclear or renewables, and more that we stop relying on fossil fuels."
Nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are both vastly safer and cleaner than fossil fuels.
From the perspective of both human health and climate change, it matters less whether we transition to nuclear or renewables, and more that we stop relying on fossil fuels.
Environmentalists all across Europe are joining us in backing
#nuclear
as a crucial solution to the climate crisis.
Today RePlanet and our ambitious pro-science activism is featured in The Guardian 🎉
Please read and share 💚
The
@guardian
has today reported on our
#Switchoffputin
report and campaign.
We have just released polling which shows that nearly 70% of Europeans want an immediate boycott
of Russian oil and gas in solidarity with
#Ukraine
.
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Finally, the science supports it.
The
@EU_Commission
's Joint Research Centre found that nuclear is comparable to wind and solar on both impacts to the environment and human health.
The
#EUTaxonomy
& all
#ClimateAction
must be guided by science.
🚨 Breaking: Today we have sent an open letter to
@vonderleyen
urging a “moonshot investment” in the rapidly growing industry of sustainable proteins.
Read the open letter -
#FundFutureFood
Out of deep concern for climate change and biodiversity loss citizens are demanding policymakers be guided by science rather than ideology.
The science is clear, nuclear meets the EU Sustainability Taxonomy criteria.
#EUTaxonomy
#EPlenary
#Fitfor55
#EUGreenDeal
#LetsReplanet
RePlaneteers Joel, Iida, Rob and Hidde explain the four policy pillars that are core to the work of RePlanet.
🏙 Development
🍞 Agriculture
⚡️ Energy
🌳 Rewilding
Learn more:
#LetsRePlanet
Since Putin started his war in
#Ukraine
, we've heard President
@ZelenskyyUa
repeatedly urge European leaders to stop importing fossil fuels from Russia. We agree. And over here at
#RePlanet
, we have crunched the numbers on how to achieve it.
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Good morning 🌄
It's a great day to tell
@Greenpeace
that when it comes to
#ClimateAction
the fight is against fossil fuels, not nuclear energy.
Sign my petition to let them know -
37 Nobel Laureates & nearly 1,500 Scientists call on MEPs to support New Genomic Techniques (
#NGTs
).
NGTs give farmers access to new drought-tolerant & nitrogen-efficient crops, helping to produce food more at lower environmental cost.
We're pleased to see this sensible approach to energy and climate policy from the French government.
Nuclear is a proven source of clean energy and there is clear evidence we will fail to achieve climate goals without it.
Police have clashed with protesters during ongoing efforts to stop the destruction of a German village due to the expansion of a lignite mine, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels.
This wouldn't be happening if Germany phased out coal instead of nuclear.
50k signatures are needed on this petition calling on the 🇩🇪German government to stop it's nuclear power phase out.
Anyone in the world 🌍 can sign.
Follow the steps in our thread to sign.
Be one of 50k people across 🌍 persuading the 🇩🇪German government to keep its nuclear electricity.
Your personal share of the emissions saved - by not burning lignite coal - will be bigger in one year than your carbon footprint over your whole life.
Here's how 🧵
When we launched our organisation 2 years ago we had no idea we would come this far. What started as a tiny group of European pro-science activists gathering in the stuffy basement of a cheap hotel in Antwerp, suddenly snowballed into a global movement.
After our unique brand of