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Legal action puts NZ polluters on notice
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 11:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lawyers for Greenpeace are today serving legal notice on 20 New Zealand companies over their contribution to climate change. More >>
China - new number one climate polluter?
Friday, 22 June 2007, 10:06 am | Greenpeace
Chinese pedestrian wears a mask to protect herself from thick pollution as she walks her dog in central Beijing December 3, 2004. Beijingers have been warned to stay indoors as heavy pollution has covered the city for three days. With its energy shortage ... More >>
Pirate Ship in Chains
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 2:48 pm | Greenpeace
Eemshaven, Netherlands — The notorious Russian pirate fish cargo ship, the Mumrinskiy, has been chained to the docks in the Dutch port of Eemshaven by activists to stop it from engaging in illegal activities with pirate fisheries and facilitating the ... More >>
Prime Minister loses plot over climate change
Friday, 15 June 2007, 4:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark has lost her way in the climate debate and is making bizarrely incorrect and misguided statements on the subject, says Greenpeace. More >>
How green is that iPhone?
Friday, 15 June 2007, 4:43 pm | Greenpeace
At the end of June Apple will launch its first major product since Steve Jobs 'A Greener Apple' statement. So how green will the iPhone be? More >>
G8 to act on climate change, later... maybe
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 2:40 pm | Greenpeace
Heiligendamm, Germany — In the lead up to this year's summit, leaked documents made it clear there was a distinct split among the G8 on the issue of climate change. After all, seven of the member countries have committed to the Kyoto Protocol's binding ... More >>
Commercial whaling ban strengthened at Anchorage
Saturday, 2 June 2007, 12:51 am | Greenpeace
Following last year's "St. Kitts Declaration", which mumbled that the moratorium on commercial whaling might not be necessary anymore, the anti-whaling countries have bounced back with a 37-4 vote for a resolution strengthening the commercial ... More >>
The greening of Apple
Friday, 1 June 2007, 6:27 pm | Greenpeace
This is the story of a very different kind of Greenpeace campaign. The story of a "people power victory." It's the story of the Greening of Apple. More >>
Exxon still funding Climate Change Deniers
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 2:09 pm | Greenpeace
Culture jamming the Esso logo at the entrance to a large station near the Germany-Luxembourg border in Wasserbillig. So. The day of reckoning has come – when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil (aka Esso) is ... More >>
GM trial risky, costly and pointless
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 10:17 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has condemned the Environmental Risk Management Authority's (ERMA) decision to approve a field test of GM Brassica. "ERMA's finding that risks to the environment are negligible flies in the face of all the scientific uncertainties," said Greenpeace ... More >>
State sponsored spying could be more widespread
Monday, 28 May 2007, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says it's concerned Solid Energy isn't the only State Owned Enterprise spying on community groups. It has been revealed that Solid Energy indirectly hired spies to infiltrate a community group campaigning against it. The company employed ... More >>
Genesis Energy files against Greenpeace
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Genesis Energy has filed new legal proceedings against Greenpeace in an extraordinary attempt to have a High Court ruling protecting the climate reversed. More >>
Canning the Pacific
Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 1:34 pm | Greenpeace
Fish is to the Pacific what oil is to the Middle East. This week, May 14-18, Pacific Trade Ministers and officials meet in Nadi to discuss their trade options with the EU. Whilst agreements over trade in agriculture, tourism and finance are on the table, ... More >>
All sectors must pay for greenhouse pollution
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today welcomed Energy Minister David Parker's announcement that an emissions trading regime could be up and running during 2008. More >>
Greenpeace calls on ITTO
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:20 pm | Greenpeace
Port Moresby, Monday May 7, 2007: Greenpeace activists today abseiled from the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) committee ... More >>
IPCC climate report proves government must act
Monday, 7 May 2007, 8:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is demanding swift and serious action from the New Zealand government, following the completion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. More >>
Video: Greenpeace Spoofs The Genesis Ad
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 5:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace said today it was time New Zealand energy companies like Genesis Energy stopped trying to brand themselves as caring and clean, when in reality they were increasing the threat of climate change. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes new NZ carbon market
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 9:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 2 May, 2007: Greenpeace today welcomed new plans by the Carbon Market Working Group to establish a carbon emissions trading platform, but warned New Zealand's focus should be on reducing emissions, rather than just trading credits. More >>
Chernobyl anniversary protest
Friday, 27 April 2007, 1:15 pm | Greenpeace
Flamanville, France — On this day 21 years ago a nuclear reactor near the Ukraine city of Chernobyl suffered a steam explosion and a nuclear meltdown. Winds spread the radioactive fallout over thousands of square kilometres. Now, risky new nuclear ... More >>
Weather of Mass Destruction
Monday, 23 April 2007, 2:53 pm | Greenpeace
New York, United States — WMD are a constant topic on the agenda of the United Nations, but now the Security Council members will have to ask, "Which W is it: weather or weapons?" The UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ... More >>
