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Biggest protest march in living memory
We expected 20,000. We HOPED for 30,000. We got nearly double that. In the biggest protest march in living memory, 50,000 turned out on Queen Street today to march against the Government’s mining plans.
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Cool IT Leaderboard shows growing divide between talk and action on developing climate solutions
The newest version of our Information Technology (IT) industry climate ranking reveals how a few global tech companies are taking the lead. They're demonstrating the potential of IT solutions to help reduce energy wastage and greenhouse gas emissions, while others seem unable to decide if IT climate solutions are a significant business opportunity or a mere marketing strategy.
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Save whales, not whaling
A proposal to keep the dying whaling industries on life support has just been unveiled by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) -- instead of a concrete plan to safeguard whales.
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GE: a 'recipe' for disaster
A GE-free future is getting closer: half a million signatures have been collected asking the EU commission to stop GE crops from being grown in Europe. With 1 million signatures this petition will become an official request!
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Activists 'drop' in to Nestlé shareholder meeting
Thirty activist 'orang-utans' greeted shareholders as they arrived for Nestle's Annual General Meeting today asking them to give Indonesia's rainforests a break and stop profiting from destroying rainforest, threatening biodiversity and accelerating climate change.
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PROTECTED: Biggest chunk of ocean yet!
The UK has created the world’s largest marine reserve, covering some quarter of a million square miles of ocean around the Chagos Archipelago -- one of the most pristine and biologically diverse coral ecosystems on the planet. But as much as we'd like to break open the champagne and tell our oceans campaigners to go home - we're a long way of reaching our goal for defending our oceans.
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Greenpeace activists resist shipment of nuclear waste from France to Russia
Greenpeace activists have been on the scene from railway to cargo ships this week attempting to stop the shipment of nuclear waste from France to Russia. Despite attempts from the nuclear industry to silence us, our activists continue to fight the transport of nuclear waste.
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Whale meat blockade
At around 4:30 this morning, our activists took action against commercial whaling and trade in whale meat by blocking a container ship with fin whale meat onboard bound for Japan from Iceland.
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The iPad, internet, climate change link in the spotlight
On the eve of the launch of the iPad, our latest report warns that the growth of internet computing could come with a huge jump in greenhouse gas emissions. We follow the data streams back to the data centres providing a cautionary tale about how the boom could see internet servers become a major cause of climate change. But it doesn't have to be that way, the great innovators of the digital age can and should be leaders in promoting an energy revolution.
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Koching up the climate: how billion dollar businessmen pay to undermine climate action
Billionaire oilman David Koch likes to joke that Koch Industries, is “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” But the nearly $50 million that he and his brother Charles have quietly funneled to climate-denial front groups that are working to delay global warming action is no joking matter.
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Dell targeted for breaking promise on toxic chemicals
Greenpeace activists unfurled banners of every size today outside the offices of Dell in Bangalore, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen, just as Dell executives meet to discuss a roadmap to finally remove the worst toxic chemicals from their electronics. The Message around the world to Dell's founder and CEO: "Michael Dell: Clean Up Toxics!"
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World water day 2010
Chemical contamination is threatening our lakes and rivers, with severe impacts on human life and biodiversity. Activists around the world marked World Water Day 2010 by highlighting the growing presence of industrial hazardous chemicals in the world’s water supplies.
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Nestlé needs to give rainforests a real break
Need a break? Before you have one with a Kit Kat watch – ‘Have a break?’ We need your help to get the rainforests a break and to help you spread the word we’ve launched this video spoof. It exposes the true cost behind having a break the Kit Kat way: you could be taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests, thanks to Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, using palm oil that comes from forest destruction.
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Activists take action against Prunerov II coal plant
It’s official: the Czech government doesn’t care about the problems it’s causing in small island states like the Pacific, as long as its dirty power supply is safe. Today, the government decided to extend the life of the country’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, despite objections from one of the countries directly threatened by this decision.
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Disaster for bluefin tuna at CITES meeting
Governments have completely and utterly failed bluefin tuna at CITES today - the vote for a listing in Appendix I was rejected after lobbying from some of the species' largest consumers.
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Whaling on trial (part 2)
This week our activists, Junichi and Toru, spent two very long and intense days in court, defending the honourable actions they took to expose the corruption within Japan's whaling industry. As the prosecution fumbled its desperate attempt to cast the 'Tokyo Two' as criminals, it became obvious that whaling really is on trial in Aomori.
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Switzerland stands strong against GE
The Swiss Parliament has just extended its ban on the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants for three more years. Originally enacted in 2005, Switzerland will stay GE-free until at least 2013.
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Whaling on trial
The Tokyo Two trial continued today as a former whaler took to the stand and cast serious doubt on the veracity of the official investigation into our allegations of institutional embezzlement within Japan's whaling industry. He further revealed how the whaling crew kept for themselves the meat from baby whales caught in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
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Last chance for bluefin tuna, too late for real conservation
So the world is finally waking up to the fact that the Bluefin tuna is in crisis. That's nice. But decades of overfishing have pushed this majestic fish to the brink of extinction, which is not the point at which we should start thinking about conservation. The situation is so extreme that an international trade ban is now its only hope of survival.
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Calling out Samsung for toxic failure
Samsung still uses PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in all its products, except in a few models of mobile phone, MP3 players and some components, despite many promises to clean up. That's why our activists stuck huge stickers on the Korean electronic giant's Benelux headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday stating "Samsung = broken promises".
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