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New Zealand Animals Fed Genetically Engineered Soy
Wednesday, 29 November 2000, 4:34 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 29 November, Auckland – Greenpeace today raised concerns that the Feed Manufacturers and Poultry Industry Association have previously failed to inform the NZ public that animal feed in this country contains genetically engineered soy meal. More >>
Greenpeace Final Statement At Climate Summit
Tuesday, 28 November 2000, 10:53 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Final Statement At The Closure Of The UNFCCC COP6, The Hague, 25 November 2000: More >>
Greenpeace Blocks Import Of Waste For Incineration
Tuesday, 28 November 2000, 10:42 am | Greenpeace
Stockholm/Amsterdam, 27th November 2000: A ship containing 3700 tons of waste from the Netherlands More >>
Deadline For GE Submissions
Friday, 24 November 2000, 4:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thousands of people around N.Z. are now taking action to ban Genetic Engineering. Every voice counts. More >>
"Don't Let Us D(r)own"
Friday, 24 November 2000, 10:59 am | Greenpeace
One Day Left For A Deal To Stop Dangerous Climate Change Greenpeace Call To Conference: "Don't Let Us D(r)own" More >>
Atlantic Tuna Commission Wins Major Battle
Thursday, 23 November 2000, 1:16 pm | Greenpeace
ATLANTIC TUNA COMMISSION WINS MAJOR BATTLE AGAINST PIRATE FISHING – BUT THE WAR IS STILL ON More >>
Government Shift On The Elimination Of Dioxins
Tuesday, 21 November 2000, 4:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
21 November 2000, Auckland – Greenpeace has welcomed the apparent shift in government position on the aim to eliminate dioxins in regard to an international toxics treaty to eliminate twelve toxic chemicals, including DDT and dioxins. More >>
Greenpeace stops more emissions than conference
Friday, 17 November 2000, 1:30 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace stops more fossil fuel emissions in four days than climate conference does since birth More >>
Greenpeace - Toxic Factories As Renewable Energy
Wednesday, 15 November 2000, 5:29 pm | Greenpeace
Brussels - 14 November 2000 - Greenpeace today expressed outrage that public support intended for the development of clean, renewable energy may be used to promote the building of yet more cancer causing municipal waste incinerators. More >>
Mcdonalds’ Commits To Serve Non GE In Germany
Wednesday, 15 November 2000, 11:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Hamburg, 13th November, 2000 - The multinational fast food chain, McDonald’s, has written to Greenpeace Germany that it intends no longer to serve animal products coming from animals fed with genetically engineered (GE) feed in its restaurants ... More >>
Greenpeace Blocks Coal Import At Conference
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 9:01 am | Greenpeace
Phase out coal and other fossil fuels is the only solution to stop climate change More >>
Eminent Scientist calls for a GE-Free environment
Monday, 13 November 2000, 4:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, November 13 2000: At the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification today, the first of a number of scientific experts critical of genetic engineering advised that New Zealand establish a GE-Free Environment and GE–free food supply. More >>
Greenpeace Launches Cyberactivist Centre
Monday, 13 November 2000, 11:12 am | Greenpeace
The number of Greenpeace cyberactivists has been growing rapidly over the last year: we now have about 50,000 people in more than 100 countries who have agreed to help out our campaigns over the Internet through letter writing, research, and downloading ... More >>
Expert To Brief Government On Toxics Treaty
Monday, 13 November 2000, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 November 2000: Greenpeace has brought an international expert to New Zealand to brief the government on why it must agree to eliminate dioxins under an international toxics treaty. More >>
Mile Long Toxic Slick Spreads From Italian Tanker
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 10:01 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France. November 5: Six days after the chemical tanker, Ievoli Sun, sank in 60 metres of water off the west coast of France, the toxic styrene continues to leak, Greenpeace warned today. More >>
North Sea Countries Could Fossil Fuel With Wind
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 9:54 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, November 6th, 2000.: A report released today reveals that five North Sea countries (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark) have an offshore wind resource that is three times their total electricity consumption. This report sends a clear ... More >>
For Survey Into Health And Dioxins In New Plymouth
Friday, 3 November 2000, 3:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
3 November 2000: Auckland: Greenpeace supports the New Plymouth residents call for an investigation into health effects which may be linked to dioxin contamination in the area, at a public meeting in New Plymouth on Tuesday night. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes delay of GE pine field trials
Tuesday, 31 October 2000, 3:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, October 31 Earlier today the Forest Research Institute (FRI) announced that they will delay planned field trials of genetically engineered pine trees until the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification has completed its investigation. More >>
ERMA hearing on controversial GE pine trees
Tuesday, 31 October 2000, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, October 31 Tomorrow, Wednesday November 1, the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) will open the public hearing on the field trials of genetically engineered trees in Rotorua. The applications were filed by the Forest Research Institute ... More >>
Greenpeace And Coastal Communities Confront Shrimp
Wednesday, 25 October 2000, 9:19 am | Greenpeace
Puerto Bolivar, Ecuador—23 October 2000. Greenpeace activists and crew of the Arctic Sunrise joined hundreds of people from Ecuadorian coastal communities in breaking a dike that surrounds an illegal shrimp farm in the El Oro Province of Ecuador and ... More >>
