Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Greenpeace
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 142]
Caribbean Support For Sth Pacific Whale Sanctuary
Friday, 27 April 2001, 3:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 27th April 2001 - A week after Pacific Island countries declared their unanimous support for the proposed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary, a new poll (1) shows Eastern Caribbean people also support the proposed Sanctuary by a margin of ... More >>
Toxic Pollution In Baltic Above Critical Levels
Tuesday, 24 April 2001, 9:04 am | Greenpeace
St Petersburg, Russia. 23rd April 2001: Greenpeace today warned that pollution levels in the Baltic are above critical levels and that the entire region is a global toxic hotspot. The warning was issued in St Petersburg at the launch of a tour of the Baltic, ... More >>
Pacific makes progress on South Pacific Whales
Monday, 23 April 2001, 8:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Samoa/Auckland, April 22, 2001: Greenpeace applauds the decision of Pacific Islands’ environment ministers and officials to support the progress of the proposed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary at a meeting in Samoa this weekend. More >>
Thailand bans the release of all GE crops
Monday, 9 April 2001, 5:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bangkok/New Zealand, 9th April 2001 - Thailand's declaration as Genetically Engineered (GE) free is a first in the Asian region. More >>
Cogema Allowed To Unload Australian Spent Fuel
Wednesday, 4 April 2001, 8:51 am | Greenpeace
COGEMA ALLOWED TO UNLOAD AUSTRALIAN SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL BUT GREENPEACE TO LAUNCH NEW LEGAL CHALLENGE More >>
Leadership Needed Now To Save Kyoto Protocol
Saturday, 31 March 2001, 5:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 31th March, 2001: Greenpeace New Zealand congratulates the New Zealand government on its continued commitment to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol by mid 2002 and its intention to urge the United States to remain involved in the Kyoto Protocol ... More >>
GreenPeace Calls On EU To Stop Greenwashing
Wednesday, 28 March 2001, 9:00 am | Greenpeace
Brussels – 27th March 2001: Greenpeace accused the EU Council of greenwash today for attempting to classify an established health hazard as a source of renewable energy in the Draft EC Directive on Renewables. The EU is advocating the use of incineration ... More >>
GreenPeace Calls For GE-Free Seas
Wednesday, 28 March 2001, 8:59 am | Greenpeace
Boston/London/Ottawa, 27th March, 2001 – Greenpeace activists today sealed off a research facility containing genetically engineered (GE) salmon, owned by A/F Protein, in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The international environmental organisation demanded ... More >>
GE 'Golden Rice' not to be released for five years
Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 9:01 am | Greenpeace
Genetically engineered 'Golden Rice' not to be released into the environment within the next five years admits International Rice Research Institute More >>
Bush Caves In To Fossil Fuel Industry
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 2:28 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam: March 14th 2001: Greenpeace reacted with shock today at US President George Bush’s abrupt decision to back off from campaign promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions from US power stations. His pre-election pledge was reiterated just last week by ... More >>
Evidence Supports A Ban On The Release Of GMOs
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 3:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
13 March 2001, Wellington – After five months of submissions to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification Greenpeace believes that the evidence clearly supports a ban on the release of GMOs into New Zealand’s environment. More >>
Plutonium Ships Sighted Off Southern Australia
Friday, 2 March 2001, 3:40 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney, 1 March, 2001 – The two British-flagged ships carrying plutonium fuel from Europe to Japan were sighted today 300 nautical miles south-west of Tasmania in southern Australia, Greenpeace Australia announced today. The ships, the Pacific Pintail and ... More >>
Victory For Consumers Of KFC
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 2:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday 1 March 2001 Auckland - Greenpeace welcomes Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited (1) announcement in its 2000 Annual Report that it will be working with its suppliers to eliminate any remaining genetically engineered material from all its ... More >>
Greenpeace Protests Against Pirate Fishing
Friday, 23 February 2001, 2:13 pm | Greenpeace
ROME, 22 February 2001 --- As governments begin final negotiations on an international plan to stop pirate fishing, Greenpeace activists protested at the Trevi Fountain to highlight the destruction caused by these renegade fishing fleets. More >>
Hard Action Needed To Stop Climate Catastrophe
Tuesday, 20 February 2001, 7:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
19 February 2001: Auckland: Greenpeace today warned that to avoid a climate change catastrophe hard action is urgently needed. More >>
Shell Ordered To Clean Up Toxic Waste In Brazil
Tuesday, 20 February 2001, 10:57 am | Greenpeace
Sao Paulo/Amsterdam, February 16 2001: Greenpeace today called on Royal Dutch Shell to ensure that its chemical operation in Brazil takes full responsibility for decontaminating an area near Sao Paulo, Brazil, that it contaminated with toxic pesticides for a ... More >>
Nuclear-Free Tasman Flotilla Departs
Monday, 19 February 2001, 11:08 am | Greenpeace
A flotilla of seven yachts from Australia and New Zealand left port today to sail to the north-west Tasman Sea where they will protest the use of the Tasman and the Pacific Ocean as a nuclear highway for plutonium ships. More >>
Japanese MOX Programme In Disarray
Friday, 16 February 2001, 4:41 pm | Greenpeace
LONDON, Feb 15, 2001 - The Japanese plutonium (MOX) fuel programme is in disarray today after a key Prefecture announced a major delay in the loading of the controversial nuclear fuel and demanded "total review" of the country's proposed programme, Greenpeace ... More >>
Unsafe Toxic Ship Detained In Europe
Friday, 16 February 2001, 3:30 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam 15th February 2001: Greenpeace today called on the shipping industry to dispose of ships that reach the end of their useful life in an environmentally sound manner and to stop using Asia as a dumping ground after a toxic ship, destined to ... More >>
Greenpeace Tells Commission Why GE Must Be Banned
Friday, 16 February 2001, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 16 February 2001 – Greenpeace has welcomed the opportunity to present compelling evidence on why genetically engineered organisms should not be released into the environment. More >>
