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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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Greenpeace sets up second camp on coal plant pylon
Friday, 9 December 2005, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand, 8 December, 2005- Seven Greenpeace climbers from around the world have set up a second camp on one of the BLCP coal plant's 60-metre electrical transmission pylons as its protest against the continued construction of the climate ... More >>
Greenpeace expands protest against coal, Thailand
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand - Greenpeace activists from Thailand, the Philippines and the United States today set up camp outside the main gate of the BCLP coal power plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to draw attention to its climate killing impact and the ... More >>
Stop climate killing coal plants in Thailand
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand - With its flagship the Rainbow Warrior looking on, Greenpeace activists today climbed the loading crane of the BLCP coal plant at Map Ta Phut in Thailand and unfurled banners demanding the plant's immediate closure, calling on ... More >>
Industrialised countries are burning Asia's future
Monday, 5 December 2005, 5:12 pm | Greenpeace
Bangkok, Thailand, Industrialised countries must stop exporting climate change to developing countries if social, economic and environmental disaster is to be averted, according to a new Greenpeace report on the power sector in Asia and its impacts ... More >>
Toxic slick heads for Russia
Monday, 5 December 2005, 3:24 pm | Greenpeace
Russian-Chinese Border, Russian Federation — Eighteen days after an explosion at a chemical factory in Jilin Provence launched a huge 80 kilometer (50 mile) slick of cancer-causing benzene down the Songhua River, and nine days after the Chinese ... More >>
Illegal nuclear waste shipment blocked in France
Friday, 2 December 2005, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace
International — In a daring 2AM action, twenty Greenpeace activists have blocked the loading of illegal nuclear waste in France. More >>
National and Dunne misguided on carbon charge
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today condemned National's new campaign to abolish the carbon charge, and Peter Dunne's support for the move and urged National to get their facts straight. More >>
Blair nuclear announcement scuppered
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 3:19 pm | Greenpeace
London, United Kingdom — Greenpeace climbers scuppered Tony Blair's nuclear announcement by delaying the UK Prime Minister's planned pro-nuclear speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference. More >>
Time is Running Out!
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:28 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today unveiled a four metres tall hourglass outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal to remind the arriving delegates that time is running out. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered into force - opens ... More >>
Greenpeace: Time is Running Out!
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:26 am | Greenpeace
Montreal, Canada - Greenpeace today unveiled a four metres tall hourglass outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal to remind the arriving delegates that time is running out. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered ... More >>
Europe: landmark law on toxic chemicals voted in
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 7:22 pm | Greenpeace
Strasbourg, France — European politicians have voted on a landmark law to better regulate toxic chemicals. There was good news that the law will force the replacement of toxic chemicals with safer alternatives but pressure from polluting industry ensured ... More >>
Greenpeace activists attacked in Philippines
Friday, 11 November 2005, 2:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Zambales, Philippines, 10 November 2005 – A German Greenpeace activist participating in a peaceful protest against the Masinloc coal power plant outside Manila was horrendously beaten by local plant personnel and three other Greenpeace activists from New Zealand ... More >>
Arrests for peaceful protest in Phillippines
Friday, 11 November 2005, 11:10 am | Greenpeace
Twelve Greenpeace activists and volunteers from New Zealand, Australia, China and the Philippines were arrested and charged today for trespassing on the Masinloc coal power plant in Zambales, Philippines. The 12 were released without any bail posted. More >>
Japanese Whalers leave for Southern Ocean
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 9:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand is calling on the Fisheries Agency of Japan and the companies behind it to recall the whaling fleet that has just left the port of Shimonoseki in Japan to hunt whales in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. More >>
Whaling fleet leaves for the Southern Ocean
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand is calling on the Fisheries Agency of Japan to recall the whaling fleet that has just left the port of Shimonoseki in Japan heading for the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. More >>
Greenpeace Mourns Passing of Rod Donald
Monday, 7 November 2005, 8:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today mourned the loss of one of New Zealand?s great activists with the death of Green Party co-leader, Rod Donald. More >>
Nationwide bottom trawling roadshow ends in Wgtn
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 11:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington’s the final town to hear first hand of the devastating impacts of bottom trawling for orange roughy and other deep sea species from Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace launches Clean Energy Guide
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 8:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Whangarei Tuesday 1st November -- Greenpeace today launched New Zealand's first 'Clean Energy Guide' that ranks electricity companies according to their current and future impact on the climate, on a simple thermometer-shaped fridge magnet. More >>
No new logging in green heart of Africa
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:35 am | Greenpeace
DRC/Paris 28 October 2005 -- Greenpeace welcomed a decree (1) by President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to reform the Congolese logging sector this week. More >>
Greenpeace releases annual figures for 2004
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:30 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam 28 October 2005—Greenpeace today published its combined annual summary of income and supporter accounts for 2004, which show a slight decrease in supporter figures and a stable income for the international environmental organisation. More >>
