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Greenpeace Commends The Deni
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 11:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Manaus, Brazil, 19 October 2001.- After a two year struggle supported by Greenpeace, Missionary Indigenist Council (CIMI), and Operaçao Amazonia Nativa (OPAN), the Deni Indians of the Brazilian Amazon won formal recognition of their rights to their traditional ... More >>
Solar Able To Meet A Quarter Of Global Energy Need
Thursday, 18 October 2001, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
Berlin, October 17, 2001: Solar power could provide energy for more than 1 billion people, creating over 2 million jobs by 2020, and 26% of global energy needs by 2040, according to a report released by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association ... More >>
Maize Under Threat Mexico Fails To Ban US Imports
Wednesday, 17 October 2001, 9:26 am | Greenpeace
Brussels/London/Rome, 16th October, 2001 – Greenpeace today marked the World Food Day by renewing its demands for an emergency ban on all US maize imports to Mexico until their purity from genetically engineered (GE) compounds can be guaranteed. ... More >>
Dioxin Action Plan Short of the Mark
Thursday, 11 October 2001, 9:39 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
10 October 2001- Auckland: The Government action plan against dioxins falls short of the mark required by an international treaty, the Stockholm Convention, signed by New Zealand in May this year. More >>
Open letter regarding misinformation allegations
Friday, 21 September 2001, 9:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The last week has seen a series of statements from industry groups and publicly funded institutes criticising the GE-free NZ movement. Greenpeace particularly objects to allegations of misinformation, fear and scaremongering. Rather than assisting the ... More >>
Face Of Dioxins Come To Beehive
Tuesday, 18 September 2001, 4:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
18 September 2001: Wellington - People from dioxin contaminated communities converge on the Beehive to present their testimonies to Members of Parliament tomorrow. More >>
Fonterra – GE Free Dairy With GE Dogma
Monday, 17 September 2001, 11:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 14 September, 2001. Greenpeace questioned the blatant contradiction in Fonterra’s statement on genetic engineering today. More >>
Government Moratorium Must Include Field Trials
Monday, 10 September 2001, 11:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 7th December 2001. Greenpeace today called for field trials to be included in any moratorium, while supporting the cautious approach outlined by the Prime Minister regarding NZ’s policy on genetic engineering. More >>
Sensible Alliance position on GE
Tuesday, 4 September 2001, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 3 September 2001. Greenpeace today applauded the Alliance’s calls for the rejection of GE in the environment. More >>
Tegel – No Longer Chicken!!
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 2:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday 28th August – GE free consumers around the country will welcome today’s announcement that Tegel is now sourcing their chicken feed from non genetically engineered crops. More >>
Government’s First Step Towards GE Free Policy
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 12:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 27 August. Greenpeace today welcomed the extension of the voluntary moratorium as a first step towards a genetic engineering (GE) free policy for New Zealand. More >>
Timberlands breach of Forest Stewardship Council
Tuesday, 21 August 2001, 1:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: 20th August 2001: Greenpeace today claimed Timberlands is ‘greenwashing’ and in serious breach of the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) certification standards. More >>
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Soybeans Face Scrutiny
Friday, 17 August 2001, 4:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland — A team of independent Belgian scientists has discovered “unknown DNA” in Monsanto’s genetically engineered “Roundup Ready” soybeans. The discovery of unrecognisable DNA segments in the company’s flagship product may necessitate a full-scale re-evaluation ... More >>
US Embassies Feel The Force Of Star Wars Support
Monday, 13 August 2001, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace
August 13th 2001: Auckland/Los Angeles: Greenpeace has launched a global day of action in support of 15 Greenpeace activists who are appearing in federal court in Los Angeles today to be formally charged in connection with the delay of the Star Wars missile ... More >>
Marshall Islands Resists US Pressure
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 2:48 pm | Greenpeace
Majuro, Marshall Islands, August 6th, 2001: The Marshall Islands government today dropped a deportation case against New Zealand Greenpeace activist, Richard (Alice) Leney. More >>
Alliance Formed In Canada To Stop GE Wheat
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 3:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Broad Alliance Formed In Canada To Stop Genetically Engineered Wheat Auckland/Winnipeg, August 2nd, 2001 – Greenpeace today, together with a diverse coalition of interest groups, called upon the Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to prevent the introduction ... More >>
Public Will Bare The Cost Of GE Experimentation
Tuesday, 31 July 2001, 4:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday 31 July. Greenpeace says that if the government adopts the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering (RCI), the public will bear the economic and environmental brunt of GE release if it goes wrong. More >>
Commission fails on the GE issue
Tuesday, 31 July 2001, 8:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 31 July. Greenpeace is very disappointed today by the report of the Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering. More >>
Japanese Vote Buying Sinks Sanctuary
Wednesday, 25 July 2001, 10:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, London 24th July 2001: Measures to further protect the world’s whales were today undermined when South Pacific nations were denied their right to a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary (SPWS). Opposition from Japan, Norway and the block of countries ... More >>
Image: George W Bush melts our Planet
Monday, 23 July 2001, 5:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Noon – 23 July 2001 Wellington, Manners mall: Greenpeace activists took to street theatre today with a caricature of George W Bush melting an ice sculpture of planet earth with a blowtorch, to highlight Bush rejecting the Kyoto Protocol. More >>
