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Greenpeace Publishes Confidential Oil Spill Documents
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 10:57 am | Greenpeace International
Washington DC, Tuesday 19 April 2011 - Thousands of internal documents relating to last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been uploaded to a new website which aims to help local communities file compensation claims and discover the true ... More >>
Greenpeace protests Finnish company's palm oil purchases
Friday, 15 April 2011, 10:57 am | Greenpeace International
Activists from Greenpeace are today protesting in Helsinki against deforestation and social problems caused by the growing demand for palm oil in biofuel production. Activists are welcoming shareholders to the annual general meeting of Finnish oil ... More >>
McKinsey: Advice on Rainforest Schemes
Friday, 8 April 2011, 9:32 am | Greenpeace International
London, 7th April 2011--- A new Greenpeace report Bad Influence has revealed how advice given by global consultancy firm McKinsey to national governments could lead to an increase in the destructive logging it is intended to prevent. More >>
Commission publishes carbon trading exemptions
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 9:36 am | Greenpeace International
Brussels, 29 March 2011 – A European Commission paper published today outlines the conditions to exempt power plants from paying for carbon permits under the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) after 2012. Greenpeace has commissioned an independent ... More >>
Response to Radioactivity Release from Fukushima Reactor
Sunday, 13 March 2011, 11:51 am | Greenpeace International
Tokyo, 12 March, 2011 – Reacting to reports that radioactive materials including the isotope Cesium-137 have been released from the Fukushima power plant, and that increased levels of radiation have been detected in the immediate vicinity, Jan Beranek, ... More >>
Japan’s Whaling Fleet Recall Should Be Final: Greenpeace
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 12:08 pm | Greenpeace International
Tokyo, 18 February 2011- Greenpeace is demanding that Japan’s government finally end its commercial whaling programme and re-open an investigation into corruption scandals inside the industry, following today’s announcement by the Ministry of ... More >>
Red Carpet Trial in Brussels
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 12:07 pm | Greenpeace International
They used their freedom of expression and now face a month in prison Red Carpet Trial in Brussels More >>
Giant Indonesian Palm Oil Company Announces plan to Halt For
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:59 am | Greenpeace International
Responding to news today that the palm oil arm of Sinar Mas, Golden Agri-Resources, has announced a plan to halt the destruction of Indonesia’s forests previously caused by their operations, Bustar Maitar, head of Greenpeace’s campaign to protect ... More >>
Turtles, sharks and juvenile tuna need your help!
Friday, 14 January 2011, 10:26 am | Greenpeace International
I've got some great news to share with you about our campaign to save tuna. This week, having got wind of the fact that it was going to come last in Greenpeace UK's new tinned tuna league table , Tesco (a supermarket giant in the UK) did a spectacular ... More >>
What's hiding inside your tuna tin?
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 10:35 am | Greenpeace International
You know that colourful tin of tuna you drop into your supermarket basket every week? Ever wonder what’s in it? Probably not; in a matter of decades, tuna has gone from being exotic mystery to an almost generic foodstuff, as ubiquitous as bread and milk ... More >>
Deputy UN Chief To Give Address At AU Women Forum
Friday, 15 October 2010, 6:01 pm | Greenpeace International
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will give a keynote address on Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, at the African Union forum on the ‘Launch of the African Women’s Decade,’ which seeks to accelerate implementation of global and regional commitments. More >>
Eminent Persons Stress Commitment To Poor States
Friday, 15 October 2010, 5:59 pm | Greenpeace International
A member of the Group of Eminent Persons looking into development problems facing the world’s poorest countries stressed both developed and developing countries must fulfil their commitments to poverty reduction strategies for efforts to succeed More >>
Official Meet With Leaders Of Displacement Camp
Friday, 15 October 2010, 5:56 pm | Greenpeace International
A senior official with the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur today met with leaders of a restive camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the war-torn Sudanese region. More >>
EU Ministers Should Hold Commission To Account
Friday, 15 October 2010, 5:48 pm | Greenpeace International
European environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today are expected to criticise attempts by the European Commission to fast-track GM crop approvals in exchange for a flawed right to ban crops at the national level, said Greenpeace More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes EU Cimate Change Discussion
Friday, 15 October 2010, 5:45 pm | Greenpeace International
Greenpeace welcomes the call by top European companies for the EU to up its game on climate change, as environment ministers meet in Luxembourg today to discuss EU climate targets. More >>
Urgent Measures Needed To Protect Pacific Tuna
Friday, 1 October 2010, 3:43 pm | Greenpeace International
Auckland, September 30, 2010 - Greenpeace is supporting tough new rules to regulate industrial tuna fishing in the Pacific Ocean and is advocating for the closure of four areas of international waters to all fishing. More >>
Unjust Sentence For Anti-Whaling Activists
Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 3:30 pm | Greenpeace International
Greenpeace has condemned as disproportionate and unjust a one year jail term, suspended for three years, imposed on two Greenpeace activists, who exposed widespread corruption in the Japanese government’s Southern Ocean whaling programme. More >>
Arctic Activists Deported From Greenland
Sunday, 5 September 2010, 3:25 pm | Greenpeace International
Greenpeace vows to take deepwater oil fight to new waters. Four Greenpeace climbers who scaled an oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland and stopped it drilling for two days, have been deported to their home countries. More >>
Arctic Drama As Greenpeace Halts Oil Drilling
Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 11:11 am | Greenpeace International
Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland. More >>
Activists Block Access To Roia Montană Office
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 12:53 pm | Greenpeace International
Greenpeace activists from Romania and Hungary have blocked the access of the employee entry of the Roia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) and are determined to hold their ground until the mining company will stop their activity. More >>
