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Marks&Spencer To Eliminate Hazardous Chemicals From Clothing

Thursday, 25 October 2012, 10:24 am | Greenpeace International

Amsterdam, 23 October 2012 - Fashion retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) has today made a breakthrough commitment (1) to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout their entire supply chain and products by 2020, in response to the Greenpeace ... More >>

Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior Ends Two Weeks Of Joint Fish

Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 2:38 pm | Greenpeace International

Maputo, 24 September 2012 – The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior ended on Monday its two week cooperation with the Mozambican Ministry of Fisheries. The organisation had been patrolling the country’s waters and facilitating inspections of foreign ... More >>

Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent in recorded history

Thursday, 20 September 2012, 10:32 am | Greenpeace International

Heads of Greenpeace International and 350.org speak in New York to call for urgent international response to Polar crisis More >>

Alarm at US-backed GE food trial on Chinese children

Friday, 31 August 2012, 10:47 am | Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International has expressed alarm at a recent scientific publication (1) that suggests researchers, backed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) (2), fed genetically engineered (GE) Golden Rice to 24 children (3) in China aged between ... More >>

Tense Stand-Off: Action Against Gazprom In Russian Arctic

Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 9:22 am | Greenpeace International

Tense Stand-Off As Greenpeace International Executive Director And 13 Others Again Take Action Against Gazprom In Russian Arctic More >>

Greenpeace: Russian Oil Disaster Impact on Indigenous People

Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 3:33 pm | Greenpeace International

Amsterdam, August 6, 2012 – Shedding light on a forgotten oil spill disaster in Russia, Greenpeace International has today released a multimedia package documenting the impact of the pollution, warning for the potential of a similar disaster in the ... More >>

New Greenpeace video, featuring Jude Law and Radiohead

Wednesday, 4 July 2012, 2:10 pm | Greenpeace International

This is to let you know that overnight we've begun to release a fantastic new video that references our campaign to save the Arctic It is narrated by Jude Law, and features the Radiohead song 'Everything in its Right Place.' The band have donated the song ... More >>

Lucy Lawless Launches Global Campaign To Save The Arctic

Friday, 22 June 2012, 10:02 am | Greenpeace International

Lucy Lawless Launches Global Campaign To Save The Arctic: Greenpeace To Plant A Million Names Beneath The North Pole More >>

Google Leads Latest Greenpeace Climate IT Industry Ranking

Thursday, 9 February 2012, 11:22 am | Greenpeace International

Amsterdam, February 8th 2012 -- Greenpeace today released the 5th edition of its Cool IT Leaderboard (1), which sees Internet search engine giant Google overtaking on climate issues, followed by Cisco and Ericsson. More >>

Toxic Chemicals to Pollute Europeans for Another Generation

Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 12:50 pm | Greenpeace International

A review of chemical laws announced today will allow continuing toxic contamination of European lakes and rivers linked to serious human illnesses. The European Commission has dodged its responsibilities for over a decade and is allowing some of the most ... More >>

Facebook Commits To Clean Energy Future

Friday, 16 December 2011, 1:48 pm | Greenpeace International

Amsterdam, 15 December 2011 – Greenpeace and Facebook today announced that they will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook ... More >>

EU Roadmap: Clean Energy Future At No Extra Cost

Friday, 16 December 2011, 1:19 pm | Greenpeace International

Greenpeace reactive statement Commission study reveals irrelevance of coal and nuclear despite skewed accounting Brussels, 15 December 2011 – A roadmap published today by the European Commission exploring different energy pathways over the next 40 years ... More >>

Durban Climate Talks Ending: Polluters Won, People Lost

Monday, 12 December 2011, 10:49 am | Greenpeace International

On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was clear that our Governments this past two weeks listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening to the people who want ... More >>

Greenpeace and Palau bust pirates in Palau shark sanctuary

Friday, 9 December 2011, 3:21 pm | Greenpeace International

Palauan fisheries officials have boarded and detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel suspected of illegal fishing activities during a joint patrol with Greenpeace of the Pacific Island nation’s exclusive economic zone. More >>

Pirates of the Pacific Caught in Illegal Tuna Fishing

Monday, 28 November 2011, 10:15 am | Greenpeace International

An unnamed purse seine vessel with no flag or nationality but with Filipino crew was caught illegally transshipping its tuna catch to a carrier vessel, the Lapu Lapu. The vessels were found by Greenpeace in an area which has been closed to purse seine ... More >>

Nike Scores 1-0 Over Adidas with toxic pollution clean-up

Friday, 19 August 2011, 2:54 pm | Greenpeace International

Barcelona/Beijing 18th August 2011 - The world’s largest sportswear brand, Nike, has today committed to the elimination of releases of all hazardous chemicals across its entire supply chain and the entire life-cycle of its products by 2020 [1] , following ... More >>

Greenpeace challenges businesses to be climate leaders

Thursday, 19 May 2011, 10:22 am | Greenpeace International

As business representatives from all over Europe arrived at the European Business Summit: 'Europe in the world: leading or lagging?', Greenpeace challenged European companies to support more ambitious action on climate change. More >>

Greenpeace blocks Europe business summit to climate laggards

Thursday, 19 May 2011, 10:19 am | Greenpeace International

Greenpeace activists shut Europe's premier business conference for an hour this morning to highlight a growing split in the businesses community around the green economy and Europe's climate target. More >>

Greenpeace warns growing tension poses threat to peace

Friday, 13 May 2011, 9:22 am | Greenpeace International

New revelations by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks show how the scramble for resources in the Arctic is sparking military tension in the region – with NATO sources worried about the potential for armed conflict between the alliance and Russia. More >>

Greenpeace warns on Greenland’s approval of drilling permits

Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 9:21 am | Greenpeace International

By approving these permits, Greenland’s government has allowed Cairn Energy to drill for oil further north, at greater depths and deeper into the harsh winter months than ever before, warns Greenpeace. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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