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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 >>
Japan: Climate Saviour Or Climate Killer?
Tuesday, 17 July 2001, 10:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bonn, July 16th 2001: Latest press reports say that Japan has thrown into question it’s commitment to the only international agreement on global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, by stating that there will be no progress at the climate meeting which ... More >>
Don’t Backslide Pete – Ratify The Kyoto Protocol
Thursday, 12 July 2001, 4:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
12 July 2001 Auckland: Greenpeace is calling on the Government to stick with its commitment to ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by mid 2002 and not accommodate the destructive tactics being played by George W Bush and John Howard. More >>
Greenpeace Joins Mobil International Action Day
Thursday, 12 July 2001, 8:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
12 July 2001, Auckland: Greenpeace is undertaking a rolling protest at South Auckland Mobil service stations as part of the international day of action. More >>
Don’t Forget To Clean Up At Home Marian
Thursday, 5 July 2001, 2:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
5 July 2001 – Auckland: Greenpeace congratulates the New Zealand Government for donating funds to the United Nations programme to eliminate deadly chemicals, but reminded Hon. Marian Hobbs that dioxins are still legally being pumped into the New Zealand ... More >>
Japan’s Greed Threatens Kyoto Protocol
Friday, 29 June 2001, 11:50 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace said today that Japan’s greed in seeking more concessions at the climate talks in the Hague threatened the future of the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace Climate Policy Director Bill Hare said, “Unless Japan comes to its senses, it could sink ... More >>
New Zealand Constructive In Climate Talks
Friday, 29 June 2001, 5:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 29 June 2001: Greenpeace, attending the climate talks in the Hague over the past two days, said that generally New Zealand had taken a constructive role. More >>
Turning Up The Heat On Mobil - Villain No. 1
Friday, 29 June 2001, 5:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
29 June 2001: Auckland: Greenpeace activists on the streets are drawing attention to Mobil’s (1) regressive attitude towards the greatest environmental threat the planet faces, global warming. More >>
Do the Right Thing Japan - and NZ too, Please
Thursday, 28 June 2001, 6:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace to Japan: ”Do the Right Thing” (and New Zealand too, Please) Auckland 28 June 2001 - Greenpeace called on Japan to reaffirm its commitment to climate protection, by clearly indicating that it would ratify the Kyoto Protocol; and to clearly distance ... More >>
