Greenpeace activists construct �coal plant� at ADB Headquarters in Philippines

Manila, 18 April 2007�Greenpeace activists today constructed a
four-meter replica of a (smoke-spewing) coal plant at the main entrance
of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila.

The Bank has been under heavy criticism for its extensive funding of
fossil fuel projects in Asia which have massively contributed to the
region’s greenhouse gas emissions and abetted dangerous climate change.
The protest came two weeks ahead of the Bank’s Annual Governors Meeting
in Kyoto, birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, the only legally-binging
global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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