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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 87]
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 >>
"350 or we’re all sunk"
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 1:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Saturday October 24 – Greenpeace New Zealand has welcomed the outpouring of support for the 350 International Day of Climate Action, and at the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior in Northland, has displayed a banner underwater reading "350 or we’re ... More >>
Keisha & Rhys push cut-price bangers - $500 raised
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 12:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
“Yes! We have cooked sausage!” So spoke the self-proclaimed BBQ King himself, as he raised the first cooked snarler aloft. Rhys Darby’s bangers were officially ready and the crowd that had gathered could finally sink its teeth into some organic ... More >>
Sizzling Sausages for Sign On on Darby's Barbie
Monday, 12 October 2009, 3:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sign On ambassadors Rhys Darby, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger sizzle sausages to raise money for John Key to go to the December 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen More >>
Renewed Call To Ban Palm Based Animal Feed
Sunday, 11 October 2009, 10:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Plymouth, 11 October 2009 - Greenpeace has renewed its call for John Key and dairy giant Fonterra to stop the import of palm based animal feed because of its devastating climate impact, by painting a large slogan reading “Fonterra climate ... More >>
Key Challenged To Match Norway's Climate Target
Friday, 9 October 2009, 9:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland October 8 2009 – Norway's newly re-elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just announced a 40% emission reductions target at the UN climate talks in Bangkok, upping the pressure on developed countries like New Zealand to do the same. More >>
Activists blockade major tar sands operation
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 12:51 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists from Canada, France, Germany and Brazil today occupied two conveyor belts used to transfer bitumen from an open pit mine to a processing plant owned by Canadian oil giant Suncor, demanding the closure of the tar sands (1). More >>
Encouraging news from HP and Apple
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 10:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New ProBook 5310m Notebook, free of the worst toxic chemicals, sees HP’s penalty point lifted More >>
NZ may back out of emissions target
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is warning that the New Zealand Government could back out of its 10%-20% emissions reduction target, after New Zealand’s climate change Ambassador Adrian Macey told a journalist attending the climate change talks in Bangkok that New Zealand ... More >>
NZ in Bangkok for UN climate talks
Monday, 28 September 2009, 11:16 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
WHAT: The second to last round of UN climate change negotiations before Copenhagen. (This week is Bangkok, then Barcelona (2-6 November) then Copenhagen (December 7-18)). It will be the first round of negotiations following New Zealand’s announcement ... More >>
Coal mining for dairy death blow for green NZ
Friday, 25 September 2009, 10:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Mining lignite to create fertiliser would send an appalling message to European consumers about New Zealand's agriculture sector, Greenpeace warned today. "New Zealand's agricultural products are sold on the myth of clean green production,” said Bunny McDiarmid, ... More >>
