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Supreme Court Rejects Tokyo Two Appeal
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:59 pm | Greenpeace
The Tokyo Supreme Court today denied a special appeal for disclosure of evidence in the trial of Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, upholding a string of human rights violations committed against them and reinforcing the flawed nature ... More >>
Tying the Copenhagen knot or catching bouquets?
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 1:44 pm | Greenpeace
URL: http://www.signon.org.nz/blog/tying-the-copenhagen-knot-or-just-catching-bouquets More >>
Tuna Commission Gets Worse? Fails On Bluefin Tuna
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 1:00 pm | Greenpeace
Recife, Brazil, Monday 16 November 2009 -- The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has failed once again to act beyond the interests of a few tuna fishing and farming industries, warned Greenpeace today. Again it has approved ... More >>
New Greenpeace International Executive Director
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:49 pm | Greenpeace
Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 November 2009 -- On becoming Greenpeace International ExecutiveDirector, prominent human rights activist Dr. Kumi Naidoo today warned world leaders that there can be no excuse for not attending the upcoming UN Copenhagen ... More >>
Lawless and Salinger offer nearly $5,000 to Key
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 10:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Actress Lucy Lawless and top climate scientist Jim Salinger will visit Parliament today to present Prime Minister John Key with nearly $5,000 to help get him to the Copenhagen climate talks in December. A fundraising drive to get “Key to Copenhagen” ... More >>
Greenpeace: Protest at Fonterra Headquarters
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 11:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southland, Tuesday 17 November 2009 – The four Greenpeace activists arrested today after closing down a Southland lignite coalmine say they succeeded in drawing attention to Fonterra’s expanding use of coal for milk processing. They labelled the burning ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists Shut Down Fonterra Coal Mine
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 10:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southland, 17 November 2009 - Greenpeace activists have shut down a pit of a Southland lignite coalmine used by Fonterra to help fuel operations at its nearby Edendale dairy factory, labeling it another Fonterra climate crime. The activity at the New ... More >>
Greenpeace calls for protest outside Fonterra
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 9:59 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The four Greenpeace activists arrested today after closing down a Southland lignite coalmine say they succeeded in drawing attention to Fonterra’s expanding use of coal for milk processing. They labelled the burning of around 450,000 tonnes of coal ... More >>
Greenpeace activists shut down coal mine
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 9:40 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists have shut down a pit of a Southland lignite coalmine used by Fonterra to help fuel operations at its nearby Edendale dairy factory, labeling it another Fonterra climate crime. The activity at the New Vale mine, near Gore, comes ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists: Obama Must Address Climate
Friday, 13 November 2009, 5:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 13 November 2009 - An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change. The call has been made as Obama ... More >>
End Of Japanese Whaling May Be In Sight
Friday, 13 November 2009, 12:41 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland, 13 November, 2009 – A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds ... More >>
End of Japanese whaling may be in sight
Friday, 13 November 2009, 12:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds the so-called scientific ... More >>
Obama Sent Urgent Message From Heart Of Rainforest
Friday, 13 November 2009, 11:47 am | Greenpeace
As Barack Obama arrives in Asia for his first visit to the region as President and while the United States continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen next month, a 50-strong international team of Greenpeace ... More >>
Ecological Farming Offers Real 'Green Revolution'
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 2:11 pm | Greenpeace
Rome, Italy, 11 November, 2009 - Greenpeace today released 'Agriculture at a Crossroads: Food for Survival', highlighting the ongoing food and climate crises and calling for a new ecological approach to agriculture. More >>
International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:52 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 10 November 2009 – Greenpeace welcomes the International Energy Agency’s call for action to make the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen a success - and its warning that delaying climate actions will cost $500 billion US dollars every ... More >>
Greenpeace Supports Trawling Controls
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 10 November, 2009 - Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week. More >>
Greenpeace: Regulate Bottom Trawling in South Pac.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 4:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 10 November, 2009 - Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week. The meeting is in the final stages of agreeing on a convention ... More >>
Montreal Misses Opportunity on HFC Climate Threat
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 9:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Port Ghalib, Egypt, 9 November 2009 -- Greenpeace believes that the signatories to the Montreal Protocol(1) missed an important opportunity to send the message that HFCs(2) are a rapidly growing threat to the climate to decision makers meeting at ... More >>
Kiwis dig deep for Key
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 4:31 pm | Greenpeace
Prime Minister John Key won’t be able to use finances as an excuse not to go to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December, with the Sign On campaign on track to raise the money to help get him there. “Over $3,000 has now been fundraised ... More >>
IT Companies Slack on Emissions Reductions
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 2:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
28 October 2009, Auckland - With the crucial Copenhagen Climate summit approaching rapidly, IT heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft and IBM are still hesitating to speak up on the urgent need for emissions reductions, the latest Greenpeace Cool ... More >>
