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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 106]
Greenpeace calls for stronger climate action
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
December 11, 2006: Greenpeace is calling for stronger action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the wake of today's release of three major Government reports. More >>
Huge steps by Government in Ocean Sustainability
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 4:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 7 December 2006: Greenpeace today congratulated the Minister of Fisheries, Jim Anderton for today's breakthough announcement that the Government will make sustainability come first in the Fisheries Act. More >>
All GE Corn Must be Destroyed
Monday, 4 December 2006, 5:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace said today all GE contaminated corn must be pulled up and destroyed, following the discovery that some 1.8 tonnes of GE corn have been imported into New Zealand, distributed and grown. More >>
Key Challenged on Climate Change
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Market measures are not enough to address climate change - the greatest threat that faces the planet. National will need to bite the bullet and back legislation to regulate polluters. More >>
Deep-Sea Protection Frozen By Iceland
Friday, 24 November 2006, 3:16 pm | Greenpeace
UN Bottom Trawling Moratorium And Deep-Sea Protection Frozen By Iceland Friday 24 November 2006, United Nations, New York: Negotiations at the UN to adopt a possible moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters have been torpedoed by a small ... More >>
Fiji Govt Should Act Against Bottom Trawler
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has called on the Fijian Government to take firm action against a Belizean flagged Chinese high seas bottom trawler by revoking its permit to discharge its catch in the Port of Suva for transhipment to China More >>
Marsden B Climbing Activists Discharged
Monday, 20 November 2006, 12:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The three Greenpeace activists who climbed the Marsden B proposed coal-fired power station on 4 November as part of a global climate change protest were today discharged without conviction in the Auckland District Court. More >>
Greenpeace Calls for Whaling Fleet to Stay in Port
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 10:15 am | Greenpeace
Despite international condemnation and little domestic support, a six-ship whaling fleet is due to sail from Shimonoseki in Japan tomorrow, with plans to hunt nearly 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Greenpeace is calling on the ... More >>
Call To Pull The Plug On Marsden B
Friday, 10 November 2006, 10:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on the Climate Change Minister, David Parker, to pull the plug on Marsden B and on Mighty River Power to halt its consent process for its proposed coal-fired power station. More >>
Greenpeace Criticises Report As Wasted Opportunity
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 10:36 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticised the IEA World Energy Outlook report as a wasted opportunity. While it is important that the IEA has finally recognised the need to drastically change the global energy supply in light of climate change, it has offered 'business ... More >>
IEA World Energy Outlook 2006: misguided solutions
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 10:20 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticised the IEA World Energy Outlook report as a wasted opportunity. While it is important that the IEA has finally recognised the need to drastically change the global energy supply in light of climate change, it has offered 'business ... More >>
Act Now to Save the Climate
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 9:48 am | Greenpeace
Nairobi, Kenya, November 6, 2006 – Greenpeace today issued an urgent call to Governments attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi to face reality and act urgently to avoid dangerous climate change. More >>
Minister indicates Marden B unlikely to happen
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 12:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The three Greenpeace activists, who scaled Marsden B power station on Saturday morning have been remanded on bail to appear in Auckland on 20 November. Michael Simpson, Emma Giles and Katrina Tamaira, were charged with being unlawfully upon a building ... More >>
Marsden B activists arrested
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 4:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Ruakaka, Saturday 4 November 2006, 2.30pm: Three Greenpeace activists who earlier this morning scaled the 60m Marsden B power station which is planned to convert to coal, have been arrested. Michael Simpson, Emma Giles and Katarina Tamaira were arrested ... More >>
Youth United Against Climate Change!
Friday, 3 November 2006, 11:21 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is very pleased to support and participate in the International Conference Of Youth 2 (COY2) and the African Youth Initiative On Climate Change (AYICC). Both conferences will be attended by 75 youth from Africa and beyond and will be held ... More >>
Governments must and can save the climate
Friday, 3 November 2006, 10:10 am | Greenpeace
Hamburg, Germany, November 2, 2006 - Greenpeace today released new photographs of rapidly melting glaciers in Europe to call upon the world's Governments attending next week's Climate Conference in Nairobi to 'wake up and smell the coffee'. The ... More >>
Ozone-friendly vaccine refrigerator in India
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 9:37 am | Greenpeace
New Delhi, 1 November 2006 -, the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has become the first to buy a new environmentally-friendly solar-powered refrigerator called SolarChill, which can be used without an electrical supply and does not harm ... More >>
PM wrong to listen to coal man on climate change
Monday, 30 October 2006, 1:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is utterly flabbergasted that the Labour Party got advice at the weekend from one of Australia's pariahs of climate policy: the Queensland premier and coal man Peter Beattie. Queensland is the biggest coal exporting state in the world's ... More >>
Pressure to pull NZ trawl fleet from High Seas
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:16 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, Monday 30 Oct 2006: An international coalition of more than 60 environmental groups has called on New Zealand to pull its bottom trawl fishing fleet out of the international waters of the South Pacific to protect deep-sea life. More >>
Greenpeace forced out of Apple Mac Expo
Friday, 27 October 2006, 12:32 am | Greenpeace
London, October 26, 2006 -Greenpeace's high profile 'Green my Apple' stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo (1) Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources. The Greenpeace stall was bought for the ... More >>
