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'Quit Coal' - action against coal ship in Spain
Monday, 6 October 2008, 2:50 pm | Greenpeace
At 2am this morning, four Greenpeace activists boarded the Windsor Adventure, a coal cargo ship importing coal from Colombia into Spain. Others painted "Quit Coal" in English and Spanish on the ship. The action was in protest against the Spanish government ... More >>
Online List Tracks "Pirate" Fishing Vessels
Friday, 3 October 2008, 9:57 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today launched an online database of fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and the companies that own them. More >>
Clean Streams sham shows need for dairy shift
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 11:49 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The failure of the Clean Streams Accord shows the urgency of a shift to less intensive dairying in New Zealand, says Greenpeace. More >>
National policy ignores the obvious - again
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 25 September 2008 – Greenpeace welcomes National Party plans to research the reduction of on-farm greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand, but says there's plenty for farmers to be getting on with in the meantime. More >>
National's forestry policy ignores the obvious
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 2:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 24 September 2008 - National needs to tackle corporate dairy farming's role in deforestation if it wants to truly improve forestry in New Zealand, says Greenpeace. More >>
Leading Brands Make Progress In Greening Products
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 10:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Five leading brands are making significant progress in greening their electronics products, Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics released today reveals (1). More >>
Broken Promises of Logging Companies
Monday, 15 September 2008, 8:05 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Exposes Broken Promises of Logging Companies and Debt Bondage Port Moresby, 15 September 2008, Today Greenpeace released documentation of the many broken promises of logging companies in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Gulf and Western Provinces. More >>
ETS: Thank god that's over; now to the climate...
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 10:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10 September 2008 – Greenpeace is calling on political parties to outline their future plans for tackling climate change, now the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been passed into law. More >>
Court Deals Major Blow to UK Coal fired power plan
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 9:24 am | Greenpeace
London, United Kingdom, 10 September 2008 - British Government Ministers suffered a blow to their energy plans today as six Greenpeace UK volunteers were acquitted of criminal damage by a Crown Court jury in a case that centred on the contribution ... More >>
Armed Police End Peaceful Greenpeace Protest
Sunday, 7 September 2008, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
Paia, Papua New Guinea, 6 September 2008: Greenpeace’s successful crane-top protest on the logging ship Harbour Gemini ended peacefully when six police armed with M16 rifles removed the activists. Other Greenpeace activists were painting “Moratorium ... More >>
Greenpeace Speech To BlueGreens Annual Forum
Saturday, 6 September 2008, 3:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
There are two things people like to have. Some call them luxuries, but really, they’re just what we’ve come to expect. More >>
Greenpeace locks down illegal rainforest export
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 4:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A Christchurch man is one of four activists who've halted the loading of a timber shipment in Papua New Guinea. Greenpeace activist Raoni Hammer is up the loading crane of the Harbour Gemini, currently in port at Paia Inlet, Gulf Province. More >>
Solar Energy to Over 4 Billion People by 2030
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 5:09 pm | Greenpeace
Valencia, Spain — Solar electricity can contribute largely to the energy needs of two-thirds of the world's population - including those in remote areas - by 2030. This is the main conclusion of the Solar Generation report, published by Greenpeace ... More >>
Greenpeace reaction to France’s nine-month delay
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 10:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Flamanville, France, 27 August 2008 - Just nine months into construction, Areva’s new flagship nuclear reactor is already nine months behind schedule. This delay echoes the problems at Areva’s previous site in Olkiluoto, Finland, where construction ... More >>
Urges for govts to speed up climate negotiations
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 10:12 am | Greenpeace
As the latest round of UN climate talks came to a close today, Greenpeace urged governments to pick up the pace of the negotiations which, in just over a year, must deliver a global deal to save the climate. The meeting, in Accra, Ghana, showed some progress ... More >>
85 tonnes of whale meat may soon be abandoned
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 2:08 pm | Greenpeace
Tokyo, Japan, 26 August 2008 - A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that around 85 tonnes of whale meat, sent to Japan in late May 2008 from Northern Europe, and for which the Japanese government has not yet received an application for import ... More >>
Greenpeace on ETS decision
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 2:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has welcomed the Green's support for the emissions trading scheme (ETS), saying the party has secured some positive measures. More >>
ETS must pass despite weaknesses
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 3:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Despite shortcomings, it is imperative that New Zealand's emissions trading scheme (ETS) is passed into law this parliamentary term, says Greenpeace. More >>
Crucial Week For The Climate - NZ Must Step Up
Monday, 18 August 2008, 4:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand must step up its commitment to tackling climate change ahead of three important climate meetings this week, says Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace PR: Earth to National
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 12:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 14 August 2008 – Greenpeace is accusing the National Party of living in an alternate reality in which there's no such thing as climate change. More >>
