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From Willie, one of our oceans campaigners in the UK Breaking news just in from Brussels – despite all the doubts and concerns some of us have harboured over the past few weeks, it seems the EU Commission is throwing its weight squarely behind the call for an international ban on the trade of Atlantic bluefin [...] This is part of a series of short news updates beyond Greenpeace-specific news. World environmental events in a blurb: Focus on Solar Energy: While China invests in the world’s biggest solar project, the recession could cut the solar industry in half by 2010. The Information Network, a market research firm, announced that 50 per cent of solar panel [...] This is part of a series of short news updates beyond Greenpeace-specific news. World environmental events in a blurb: The Dirtiest Oil on Earth © Greenpeace / Eamon Mac Mahon / Eamon Mac Mahon On Thursday, Native American and environmental groups [...] Today activists in India were arrested while demonstrating outside the Indian Parliament during the passing of the Finance bill in Loksabha. The demonstration was to remind the Finance Minister that proposed fertiliser subsidies will not ward off an imminent food crisis. The present crisis – characterised by degraded soils, yield stagnation and decline in agricultural [...] Yesterday in New York, actress Sigourney Weaver presented some hard facts about the practice of bottom trawling during the UN Consultative Process on the Law of the Sea (ICP). Namely – it is killing deep sea ecological systems and they may never recover. She did this through the latest Greenpeace documentary ‘The Bottom Line‘ which [...] Guess the next country to get sued is France since it is also banning MON810 … How money is more important then hman health. And the so called reason for using mon 810 are complete lies since it doesn’t produce more then conventional seeds. Again big bucks business Here’s another example of how [...] A victory we won in 2006 has come to fruition this month. Tamara Stark, now the communications director at our office in the UK was one of the Greenpeace forest campaigners who won protection for Canada’s Great Bear rainforest. She wrote this piece for our UK website. An era ended for me this week when [...] Greenpeace activists have turned to Beijing’s historic Yongding gate to call on the government for immediate action on climate change. Activists turned one of Beijing’s ancient city gates into a gigantic countdown clock marking the time left till the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Greenpeace is calling on Chinese President Hu Jintao to personally attend [...] |
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