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Peaceful Greenpeace climate protesters released after 20 days of imprisonment without trial
Danish police today released from custody four Greenpeace climate protesters who have endured 20 days of pre-trial detention in Copenhagen prison following a harmless peaceful protest staged on the evening of 17 December. Their release comes a day in advance of their detention being reviewed by a Danish judge. The four activists still face trial [...]
Continue reading...Final voyage of the Japanese whaling fleet?
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Following a week of potentially crippling budgetary reviews and a high-profile visit from US President Barack Obama to Japan, shortly after 10am today the so-called ’scientific’ whaling fleet crept out of port, as Greenpeace called for today’s departure to be the programme’s last. Earlier, the environmental group unveiled a ‘Yes We Can’ banner in front of [...]
Continue reading...Indonesia suspends climate polluter’s licence to destroy rainforest
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Greenpeace welcomed today’s decision by Indonesia’s Forest Minister, Mr. Zulkifli Hasan, to temporarily stop paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) from destroying the carbon-rich forest peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra, pending a review of the company’s permits. The move follows a Greenpeace protest on 12 November to prevent the company destroying the [...]
Continue reading...French Nuclear Madness won’t save the climate
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Today six activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise boarded the cargo ship Happy Ranger in the Fehmarn Belt between Denmark and Germany. The activists are carrying banners reading “Nuclear Madness, made in France”. The ship is carrying steam turbines supplied by the French nuclear company AREVA to the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor currently under [...]
Continue reading...Greenpeace Maps Out New Vision for Mediterranean Protection
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Greenpeace today outlined its vision to protect the entire Mediterranean ecosystem and safeguard the future for key species such as bluefin tuna. The launch of the Greenpeace ‘Mediterranean Marine Governance’ proposal coincides with the opening of the Barcelona Convention (BARCON) meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, and calls for BARCON members to become central to a modernised system, [...]
Continue reading...Climate chaos draws closer as G8 leaders fail to act
Thursday, July 9, 2009
“Leaders act and politicians talk. By failing to take the necessary and urgent decisive action on climate change today the leaders of the world’s most wealthy nations failed all of us, failed themselves and have risked placing the world on a pathway to runaway climate change with devastating social and environmental costs.” “By failing to commit [...]
Continue reading...Undercover investigation implicates top brands in ‘Slaughtering the Amazon’
Thursday, June 4, 2009
A three-year undercover investigation by Greenpeace into Brazil’s booming cattle industry, the single largest source of deforestation in the world and Brazil’s main source of CO2 emissions, has found that top food, sports and fashion brands are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. It also shows how the Brazilian government is complicit in [...]
Continue reading...Dreams of Carbon Storage face a tough Reality Check
Friday, May 29, 2009
As decision makers from around the world convene at a high-level conference today in Norway to discuss carbon capture and storage (CCS), Greenpeace has released a report titled “Reality Check on Carbon Storage”[1] that examines some of the major challenges and uncertainties facing CCS. The report, focusing on the Sleipner project and Utsira formation in [...]
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
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