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Europe Toughens GE Labelling Laws To US Chagrin
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Hailed as a historic victory for consumers, the European Parliament today adopted the world’s strictest and most comprehensive rules on the labelling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Greenpeace praised the move, which is a practical example ... More >>
EU Parl. Paves The Way For GMO-Free Europe
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 9:43 am | Greenpeace
Strasbourg, 2 July 2003 ¯ Hailed as a historic victory for consumers, the European Parliament today adopted the world’s strictest and most comprehensive rules on the labelling of genetically modified organisms (GMO). Greenpeace praised the move, which ... More >>
Greenpeace: Clarification On Media Release
Wednesday, 2 July 2003, 4:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A clarification on the Greenpeace Press Release today, Wednesday July 2, 2003, entitled Nga Hau E Wha: Wind potential for Maori. More >>
Nga Hau E Wha: Wind energy potential for Mâori
Wednesday, 2 July 2003, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 2 July, 2003: Greenpeace releases a landmark report today, Winds of Change – Exploring New Zealand’s phenomenal wind resource and options to drive renewable energy development. More >>
New Zealand is the Saudi Arabia of Wind
Wednesday, 2 July 2003, 9:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 2 July 2003: Greenpeace today launched a groundbreaking new report Winds of Change11 The Greenpeace report, Winds of Change: Exploring New Zealand’s phenomenal wind resource and options to drive renewable energy development is available ... More >>
Spanish Government Challenges right to protest
Friday, 27 June 2003, 9:07 am | Greenpeace
Madrid, 26 June 2003—Greenpeace today called for the release of the organisation’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, being detained by authorities in Valencia, Spain since 13 June after a non-violent, peaceful protest against the importation of illegal ... More >>
UK Pressured over Radioactive Discharges
Friday, 27 June 2003, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
UK was forced to accept the concerns of Member States over radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield. The dispute at OSPAR resulted from the UK's failure to meet its commitments over the past five years to reduce ... More >>
Image: U.S. Military Checks Nuke Cake-Mixer
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Image: U.S. Military Checks Nuke Cake-Mixer - June 2003 Al Tuwaitha, Iraq US military checks a yellow cake mixer returned by Greenpeace to the Tuwaitha nuclear facility. The device was found in an open public place in front of a bus stop. The ... More >>
Greenpeace Team Iraq: Nuclear Inspection Needed
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 11:03 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace team in Iraq: US military radiation expert backs call for full inspection of contaminated communities More >>
Iraq:US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:47 am | Greenpeace
US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace call for full inspection of contaminated communities in Iraq More >>
Greenpeace Delivers Radioactive Contamination Back
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:30 am | Greenpeace
Baghdad, 24th June 2003: Greenpeace activists today confronted the occupying forces in Iraq with radioactive material collected near the Tuwaitha nuclear complex and called for a clean up of radioactive contamination of villages surrounding the plant, ... More >>
Shipload of dirty coal not the answer!
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 8:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace escalated the climate change and energy debate at Port Tauranga today as the first shipment of coal for Genesis' Huntly power station arrived from Indonesia. Inflatables sped to the bow of the 187m vessel Almar, and climbers hung a banner ... More >>
European Commission takes on dirty shipping indust
Friday, 20 June 2003, 10:11 am | Greenpeace
Brussels 19th June 2003: Greenpeace welcomed today’s announcement by EU Commissioner for the Environment, Margot Wallstrom, that the European Commission will act to make sure the shipping industry cleans its ships of hazardous materials before exporting ... More >>
Sanctuaries gain support but not enough
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 11:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday, June 18, 2003: Vote-buying by the Government of Japan at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Berlin has once again frustrated attempts by the peoples of the South Pacific and the South Atlantic to establish ... More >>
Berlin Initiative breaks IWC deadlock
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday June 17: In an inspiring move the 55th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Berlin Monday passed a resolution that makes conservation central to the work of the IWC and will help protect the world’s whales, dolphins ... More >>
Us-Led Gmo Lobby On The Defensive
Monday, 16 June 2003, 10:41 am | Greenpeace
Brussels. 14 June 2003 – The aggressive US-led campaign to force worldwide acceptance of genetically engineered food and seeds suffered a setback on Friday when Palau became the 50th country to ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.[1] Greenpeace ... More >>
Coal Industry Deliberately Puts Planet in Peril
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 5:04 pm | Greenpeace
Coal Industry Deliberately Putting the Planet in Peril Balinese firewalkers carry globe over coal to protest against industry’s crimes against the environment. More >>
85% GE contamination: Inghams downright deceitful
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 12:39 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 11 June 2003: Inghams recent claims that their chicken products are GE free are contradicted by a new Greenpeace commissioned AgriQuality test today (1) showing that soy meal from the Aussie poultry and feed company contains 85% Monsanto ... More >>
Body Shop & Greenpeace Switch It On!
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 12:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Banks Peninsula, Tuesday 10 June, 2003: Greenpeace and the Body Shop have joined forces to launch a Switch postcard campaign calling on Helen Clark to lead the country to switch to 100% clean renewable energy supply by 2020, and away from polluting ... More >>
Berlin Whale Initiative Attracts Worldwide Support
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 12:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, June 10th, 2003: More than 30 conservation groups have signed on to a joint statement in support of a new initiative that would see the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moving conservation centre stage. Under the new initiative, which ... More >>
