Greenpeace International

Type: Organization

Name: Greenpeace International (Greenpeace)

Nationality: Netherlands

Web Address: http://www.greenpeace.org/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Greenpeace

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 1 reports

The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear in 20 y. . .

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear in 20 years': In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. Last week the government renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for ... [Published Equities.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Deforestation, Palm oil, Indonesia

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

European Union

Britain calls for EU target to halve emissions by 2030

Britain has challenged Europe to sign up to an ambitious target of cutting carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030. Ed Davey, the Climate Change Secretary, called on fellow EU governments to sign up to the target as part of a global climate agreement ... [Published The Independent - 7 hours ago]

Entities: United Kingdom, Ed Davey, European Union, Emission

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Ban Ki-moon

International Day For Biological Diversity Highlighted By Greenpeace (PHOTOS)

Greenpeace has released some stunning images of Indonesian forests and marine life in celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) , held on May 22. Photographer Paul Hilton spent time aboard the environmental advocacy organization's ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Biodiversity, Rainbow Warrior, PHOTOGRAPHER, Ban Ki-moon

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 reports

Greenpeace ship to highlight sustainable fishing at Lyme Regis

Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is coming to Lyme Regis to support local fishermenA GREENPEACE ship will arrive in Lyme Regis next week to support local fishermen under threat from the ‘unfair’ quota system.Arctic Sunrise will dock in Lyme Bay on Wednesday ... [Published Bridport News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, United Kingdom, UK Government, Richard Benyon, Arctic Ice

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 7 reports

CA stops field trials of genetically-modified eggplant

GOVERNMENT agencies have been stopped by the Court of Appeals from cultivating genetically-modified eggplant because of its threats to human health and biodiversity.The CA Special 13th Division issued a writ of kalikasan on May 17, which stopped respondents ... [Published Sun Star Network - May 24 2013]

Entities: Bacillus Thuringiensis, Eggplant, Greenpeace International, Human Health, Biodiversity

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Bayer AG

Court Halts Approval of GMO Rice

Greenpeace and NGO Searice consider this decision as a major step in the campaign to protect human health and ensure the safety of the environment from the adverse effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The injunction is the first major ruling ... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 25 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Injunction, Preliminary Injunction, Bayer AG, Ocampo (Philippines)

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Greenpeace International

The definitive sign GM is firing on all cylinders

Greenpeace demands suspension of GM crop trials in Indianews.taaza.com: (8 Months ago)New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Environment group Greenpeace Monday demanded suspension of ongoing genetically modified (GM) trials in the country saying a recent study has ... [Published Taaza.com - May 24 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Suspension, Genetically Modified

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

#FeelGoodFriday: footage from the clean energy revolution

Apple just released a beautiful new video of the solar array it recently built in Maiden, North Carolina.This project is the largest end-user-owned photovoltaic solar array in the country. It will be powering Apple’s internet data center in North Carolina, ... [Published Greenpeace USA - May 24 2013]

Entities: Apple Inc, iCloud, Greenpeace International

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Greenpeace: Fact not fiction: Renewable energy is safer than nuclear power

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fact-not-fiction-renewable-energy-is-safer-th/blog/45281/ ... [Published Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - May 24 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Dear Mrs Merkel, please help - I’m afraid of commitment

by-nc-nd . Credit: European UnionOf all the shoulders to cry on, it might seem strange to pick the German Chancellor’s. But that’s what the German car association (VDA) did this week when its president Matthias Wissman wrote to her to moan that long-term ... [Published GreenPeace UK - May 24 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Memory Loss, European Union

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 3 reports

How Polish nuclear boss commemorated Chernobyl nuclear disaster

On the 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, Aleksander Grad, the nuclear director of Polish utility PGE, sat behind his huge desk in his likewise huge office in Warsaw.What was he doing? Keeping two minutes of silence to remember the ... [Published Greenpeace USA - May 24 2013]

Entities: Aleksander Grad, Nuclear, Chernobyl Disaster

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Why the march on genetically modified food hurts the hungry

(Fortune) May was March-on-Monsanto month. An array of celebrities, ranging from Danny DeVito to Dave Matthews, called for protests against the St. Louis-based agriculture giant -- not for anything like the killer Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange it ... [Published CNN Money - May 24 2013]

Entities: Genetically Modified Foods, Genetically Modified Crops, Genetically Modified, Whole Foods Market Inc

Quotes

The species' range is now severely circumscribed, says WWF in Jakarta. Of nine populations left in Sumatra, only seven are thought viable. "The fate of Sumatran orangutans is inextricably linked to the island's fast-disappearing forests. If we want to save the Sumatran orangutan we have to save their forest home" said Barney Long, WWF's Asian species expert

Industry, fires and poachers shrink Sumatran tigers' last stronghold [Published Guardian.co.uk - 39 mins ago]

"If you think you’re going to go into an African country and do as you please to make some quick money, it now turns out you’re in over your head." -- Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute

Activists Claim Win as Herakles Halts Cameroon Operation [Published Inter Press Service - 7 hours ago]

...The UK is committed to increasing renewables in our domestic energy mix. "Ruth Davis of Greenpeace described the UK plan as "common sense" but added: "This makes Government opposition to a binding renewables target even more perverse. Not for the first time, the irrational prejudices of the Tory right seem to have trumped the interests of working people in Britain.""

Britain calls for EU target to halve emissions by 2030 [Published The Independent - 7 hours ago]

...We are now convinced that the long term benefits will be greater," said Aida Greenbury, APP's sustainability director. "Yes. We got it wrong. We could not have done worse."

The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear in 20 y. . . [Published Equities.com - 10 hours ago]

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