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EU Ratification Of Kyoto Confirms NZ On Right Path
Friday, 31 May 2002, 6:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Friday, 31 May 2002 – The European Union will today ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in New York. Greenpeace applauded the EU’s decision to show leadership on climate change and New Zealand’s decision not to forfeit its responsibilities ... More >>
War Over Whales
Monday, 27 May 2002, 9:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Shimonoseki, Japan/ Auckland, May 24, 2002: The democratic process took a pummeling again today at the IWC when the aboriginal peoples of the Inuit and Chukotka were denied their quota for a second time. More >>
IWC – Whale Management Plans Defeated
Friday, 24 May 2002, 11:26 am | Greenpeace
Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, New Zealand May23rd 2002: Proposed management plans for whaling by Japan and Sweden were rejected by the IWC today. More >>
IWC -- Aboriginal whaling rights denied
Thursday, 23 May 2002, 6:56 pm | Greenpeace
IWC -- Aboriginal whaling rights denied Shimonoseki Japan/Auckland, Thursday 23 May, 2002: Today Antigua and Barbuda, Mongolia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, Guinea, Gabon, Benin, the Solomon Islands, ... More >>
Toxic Waste Budget Initiative Welcome First Step
Thursday, 23 May 2002, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
21 May 2002 – Auckland: Kiwis will finally have the right to know what toxic chemicals have been dumped in their backyards, because of a Budget initiative announced today. More >>
Greens GE Stance Supported By Leaked EU Report
Thursday, 23 May 2002, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Green Party stance on legislation allowing the GE moratorium to expire automatically in October next year is a sensible position given international caution on GE organisms. More >>
IWC South Pacific Sanctuary Vote
Wednesday, 22 May 2002, 11:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland: Wednesday 22 May 2002: While the South Pacific and South Atlantic whale sanctuaries were defeated at today’s IWC meeting, the only Caribbean country with a whaling quota voted with its own voice, creating a break in the bloc ... More >>
World’s largest whale still under threat
Monday, 20 May 2002, 4:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, Monday 20 MAY, 2002: In spite of nearly four decades of protection Antarctic blue whales show little sign of recovery, according to the latest science from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). More >>
Whales for Gold?
Monday, 20 May 2002, 4:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, Monday 20 May, 2002: Greenpeace members dressed up as Fisheries Agency of Japan senior official Masayuki Komatsu tempted developing nations with “sanpou gold” in exchange for their votes as the plenary session of the 54th ... More >>
Greenpeace clarifies incident with Areva boat
Monday, 20 May 2002, 12:06 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 20 May, 2002: Last Saturday in Lorient, France, an incident occurred with a Greenpeace inflatable and the official French entry into the America's Cup "Defi Areva". More >>
NZ Govt attend French nuclear powered boat launch
Saturday, 18 May 2002, 9:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lorient/Paris/Auckland, May 17th 2002 – Greenpeace is calling on the New Zealand Government to explain why New Zealand Ambassador to France, Richard Grant attended the naming ceremony of nuclear powered boat Areva in France yesterday. More >>
Genetically Engineered Crops Add High Costs
Friday, 17 May 2002, 4:34 pm | Greenpeace
EU SUPPRESSES STUDY SHOWING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS ADD HIGH COSTS FOR ALL FARMERS AND THREATEN ORGANIC More >>
BP New Zealand: Too Little, Too Late
Wednesday, 15 May 2002, 4:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 15 May 2002: BP’s statement attempting to distance themselves from the Climate Change Pan Industry Group (CCPIG) is too little, too late. The company’s denial that they have been associated with anti-Kyoto statements in New Zealand is ... More >>
Climate - A Decade Of Dirty Tricks
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday 14 May 2002: Greenpeace New Zealand today released a report ‘A Decade of Dirty Tricks” outlining Exxon/Mobil’s undermining of United States climate change policy. Greenpeace also released letters demanding BP and Shell withdraw their support ... More >>
Week Of Protest Against Exxon
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 7:14 am | Greenpeace
AMSTERDAM MAY 13TH 2002: - As a week of protest against giant oil corporation Exxon gets underway, Greenpeace in the USA today will launch a report detailing the company's history of deliberate efforts to sabotage international action on climate change. More >>
GE Free Food Guide Launched
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 7:13 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday 14 May. To mark the launch of the new GE Free Food Guide, Greenpeace will visit supermarkets in Auckland, Manukau, North Shore and Waitakere, to hand out organic apples and the third edition of the Guide. More >>
Food Giants Reject GE
Monday, 13 May 2002, 8:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 13 May: Much of the market place is now free of genetic engineering, because some of the largest food companies in New Zealand have taken steps to remove GE from their products. More >>
Norwegian Whale Blubber A Threat To Human Health
Tuesday, 7 May 2002, 3:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amsterdam/Auckland 7 May 2002 - A report released today by Greenpeace reveals that whale blubber stored in Norway awaiting export to Japan is unfit for human consumption (1). More >>
Image: Greenpeace Pickets Japanese Prime Minister
Friday, 3 May 2002, 11:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
3 May 2002 - Greenpeace activists ask Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to save face and stop whaling in Wellington. More >>
Koizumi - Save Face And Stop Whaling
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, Thursday 2 May 2002: Greenpeace today called on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, visiting New Zealand for bilateral discussions, to stop his country's whaling industry. More >>
