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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
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10,000 energy wasting lightbulbs crushed
Monday, 23 April 2007, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin, Germany — Energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs are so dangerously inefficient it's better for the climate (and your wallet) to smash even brand new ones rather than use them. So we got a road roller and crushed 10,000 energy wasting lightbulbs ... More >>
Activists crush thousands of light bulbs
Saturday, 21 April 2007, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin 20 April 2007 -- As G8 and EU ministers gathered in Berlin to discuss energy efficiency measures, Greenpeace used a mechanised road roller to crush ten thousand energy-wasting light bulbs at the Brandenburg Gate today, demanding tough European ... More >>
How to reduce Kyoto angst? Cut emissions
Friday, 20 April 2007, 11:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The angst around New Zealand's Kyoto liability is the inevitable consequence of delaying efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace said today. Greenpeace Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid said that since we signed Kyoto New Zealand could ... More >>
Greenpeace Statement on UNSC Climate Change Debate
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 11:23 am | Greenpeace
New York, 17 April 2007 -- "There is no question that the proliferation of 'Weather of Mass Destruction' is a worthy topic for the Security Council. Its appearance on the Council's agenda represents a coming of age and recognition that a failure to ... More >>
OECD pressures NZ to lift game on climate
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 1:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 5 April 2007 — Greenpeace today called on the New Zealand Government to heed OECD calls released today for the country to adopt a "clear and comprehensive package of climate change policy measures". More >>
OECD pressures NZ to lift game on climate
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on the New Zealand Government to heed OECD calls released today for the country to adopt a "clear and comprehensive package of climate change policy measures". More >>
Govt's bottom trawl ban doesn't go far enough
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 9:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The New Zealand Governments announcement today to close 32 per cent of our EEZ to bottom trawling does little to stop the destruction of vulnerable deep-sea life threatened by the practice, this is clearly illustrated by a map released by Greenpeace in August ... More >>
Greenpeace Southern Ocean Ship "Banned" from Japan
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 12:30 am | Greenpeace
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, which helped the fire-damaged Japanese whaling factory ship when it was disabled in the Southern Ocean, has been effectively banned from entry into Tokyo. More >>
Polluters must pay for greenhouse gas emissions
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 4:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland – 27 March 2007- Greenpeace today urged the New Zealand business sector to wake up and accept that a cost on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions is inevitable. More >>
Whaler's factory ship docks amid criticism
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 11:20 am | Greenpeace
Tokyo, Japan — The Nisshin Maru arrived in Tokyo Bay today. Its time in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was cut short by a tragic fire, which claimed the life of one crewmember and threatened the Antarctic environment. Over the course of this past ... More >>
Fire-Damaged Whaling Ship Returns Home
Monday, 26 March 2007, 2:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tokyo, 23rd March 2007: The fire-damaged whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, returned to port in Tokyo in the last hour, just days after an International Whaling Commission review of the Japanese government's so-called "research" programme (1) ... More >>
World’s climate being betrayed by G8 states
Saturday, 17 March 2007, 3:40 pm | Greenpeace
Potsdam, Germany 16 March 2007 – “G8: Stop Talking – Act Now” is the message sent by Greenpeace today to environment ministers meeting in the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany. Activists from the Greenpeace ship “Beluga II” swam to the ... More >>
Greenpeace Ship Heads to Japan
Friday, 9 March 2007, 6:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sydney, Australia - 9th March 2007: After 42 days at sea, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza arrived in Sydney this morning, where it will spend 48 hours re-supplying in Australia. Greenpeace announced that it will then sail directly for Japan. More >>
Greenpeace Ship Heads to Japan to Continue Whaling
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:41 pm | Greenpeace
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza will spend 48 hours re-supplying in Australia, after 42 days at sea and then sail directly for Japan to continue to campaign for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean. More >>
Pirate Fishing Vessel ‘List Of Shame’
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 4:11 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace launches first public pirate fishing vessel ‘list of shame’ and demands governments translate voluntary measures into hard laws More >>
Climate the winner as Marsden B scrapped
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 2:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today heralded Mighty River Powers decision to scrap Marsden B, which would have been the first major coal fired power station built in New Zealand for over 30 years. More >>
Call for action on marine reserves at UN
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 11:00 am | Greenpeace
Rome, Monday March 5, 2007: Greenpeace today called on governments attending the biannual United Nations fisheries meeting in Rome this week to push for the implementation of a global network of fully protected marine reserves covering 40% of marine ecosystems ... More >>
Whaling season officially over
Monday, 5 March 2007, 11:04 am | Greenpeace
Click for big version Campaigners Sakyo Noda and Melanie Duchin radio the Japanese government whaling fleet. The message relayed from the Esperanza was: "For the sake of the environment, the whales and your crew - never again!" More >>
Greenpeace sees fleet out of the whaling grounds
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
* Southern Ocean, 28th February 2007: The Greenpeace ship Esperanza today escorted the Japanese whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters and beyond the area where the whaling fleet operates. On present course,the Japanese whaling fleet is likely to ... More >>
Japanese fleet out of the whaling grounds
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:28 pm | Greenpeace
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza today escorted the Japanese whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters and beyond the area where the whaling fleet operates. More >>
