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Russia gives green light to climate change treaty
Friday, 1 October 2004, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
Moscow 30th September 2004: Greenpeace welcomed the news that the Russian Government has given the green light to the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol today (1). More >>
Greenpeace Ship in France Ahead of U.S. Plutonium
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 8:58 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, Normandy, France, 27 September 2004 - The Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza has arrived at the French port of Cherbourg, where it will await the arrival of a weapons-grade plutonium shipment from the United States (1). The Esperanza will support ... More >>
Greenpeace concerned by bottom trawling
Monday, 27 September 2004, 10:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Greenpeace is today concerned that the New Zealand Government has been co-opted by the fishing industry into a weak "case by case" approach to deal with the greatest threat to life in the deep sea: bottom trawling. More >>
Greenpeace Applaud Biosafety Protocol Ratification
Friday, 24 September 2004, 9:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace applauds the NZ Government´s decision to ratify the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. The Biosafety Protocol is an historic achievement whereby, for the first time under international law, there is an explicit requirement that countries ... More >>
DOW's has hidden collection in Paris fashion fair
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 9:02 am | Greenpeace
Paris, 21 September 2004 - Greenpeace displayed pictures of the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster-Bhopal- at the opening of an international textile exhibition in Paris, where DOW Chemical, the entity responsible for the 1984 disaster presented ... More >>
Greenpeace Protest Agaist Nuke Shipment In France
Friday, 17 September 2004, 8:42 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 16 September 2004 - Greenpeace activists today entered the military arsenal in the port of Cherbourg, Normandy to protest a planned U.S. shipment of plutonium later this month. The activists, arriving in canoes, hung a 'Stop Plutonium' ... More >>
Rimbunan Hijau Threatens To Sue Greenpeace
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam/Sydney. 15 September 2004-Greenpeace, one of the world's leading environmental organisations, has received a letter from the lawyers of one of the world's largest and richest retailers in forest destruction, Rimbunan Hijau (RH). The Malaysian multinational ... More >>
Sth Korean Nuke Tests Helped by US & Russia
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 8:27 am | Greenpeace
Seoul, September 13, 2004 - As new evidence reveals that uranium enrichment experiments in South Korea have been assisted by laboratories in the United States and Russia, Greenpeace is calling for an immediate end to international collaboration on plutonium ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands Halt to Nuke Shipments
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 8:44 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace demands halt to U.S. nuclear shipment plans after plutonium contamination accident in France More >>
Dow’s Claims “Plain Wrong”
Friday, 10 September 2004, 3:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10-Sep-2004 – The claim made by Dow Agrosciences that the dioxin levels detected in Paritutu residents are not high enough to be harmful is plain wrong, Greenpeace said today. The company also has a history of avoiding liability across ... More >>
30 years of neglect for Paritutu residents
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 5:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Plymouth 9th September 2004 – A report released by the Ministry of Health today has confirmed that Dow is one of the largest historical polluters in New Zealand, says Greenpeace. Dioxin levels detected in Paritutu residents are up to fivefold ... More >>
Unjustified Trans-Atlantic Plutonium Shipment
Friday, 3 September 2004, 9:51 am | Greenpeace
London, September 1, 2004 - The departure of the two armed British nuclear freighters, due to cross the Atlantic to collect a cargo of weapons-grade plutonium from the U.S. military port at Charleston, South Carolina, is imminent, Greenpeace has been ... More >>
Greenpeace concerns over plutonium shipment
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 9:13 am | Greenpeace
Paris, August 25, 2004 - Greenpeace today reiterated its opposition to the planned transport of plutonium from US to France as US Congressman Jim Turner expressed his concerns over the same controversial shipment. More >>
Greenpeace Int. Publishes Annual Accounts
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 9:03 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today published its combined annual summary of income and supporter accounts for 2003, which show a consistent increase in supporter figures and a stable income for the international environmental organisation. The records show a steady increase ... More >>
Inghams first GE free soy shipment confirmed
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 13 August 2004: Tests results provided to Greenpeace by McDonalds this week confirm that Aussie poultry giant Inghams has successfully sourced non-genetically engineered soy meal from Brazil (1). More >>
National's Climate Policy: by George W Bush?
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 12:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The National Party's anti-climate change policy is an embarrassment to New Zealanders, who would be excused for confusing National's policies with those of George Bush. In a world where climate change is already impacting real people in real ways and ... More >>
WTO Dangerous fudge not multilateralism victory
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 9:23 am | Greenpeace
Geneva. 1 August 2004—Greenpeace warned that the WTO deal in Geneva--agreed many hours after an alleged “drop dead” deadline--is a face-saving exercise that is likely to result in further trade liberalisation at the expense of people and the environment. ... More >>
Greenpeace 'jaguars' stop forest destruction
Friday, 30 July 2004, 11:29 am | Greenpeace
Buenos Aires, Argentina July 29th 2004: Greenpeace activists, dressed as jaguars, used motorbikes to track down five more bulldozers that were destroying precious forests in a remote region of Argentina. (1) The forest is being destroyed to grow ... More >>
Jaguars Unleashed to Stop Forest Destruction
Friday, 30 July 2004, 8:51 am | Greenpeace
Buenos Aires, Argentina July 26th 2004: Greenpeace activists, dressed as jaguars on motorbikes, immobilised bulldozers to prevent them destroying precious forests in a remote region of north west Argentina today. The forests are being cut down ... More >>
IWC- stop the drift to whaling
Friday, 23 July 2004, 1:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland July 23 2004--Greenpeace today sounded the alarm over a pending agreement by the IWC on a process that could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling. More >>
