Greenpeace today protested against a shipment of Indonesian palm oil en route to Rotterdam by painting "Forest Crime" on the side of the Isola Corallo. The tanker is transporting palm oil from Indonesia's largest palm oil producer, Sinar Mas, to Europe and was already subject to a Greenpeace action six weeks ago in the port of Dumai in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Most of us associate the holiday season with winter and all things white – but this year, we here at Greenpeace also want to make it green.
Above: Staff at the federal prosecutor's office surrounded by legal documents relating to the hacking fraud. Image © Helena Palmquist
High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government's sophisticated tracking system and alter the records.
Representatives of millions of Greenpeace supporters from around the world arrived at the doorstep of the Japanese Prime Minister in Tokyo today to demand an end to the political persecution of two Greenpeace anti-whaling activists, and an end to Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean. Embassy actions are scheduled around the world today and tomorrow.
After eight years of inaction and even outright denial of global warming by the Bush Administration, the global community is weary of America’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis. That’s why Greenpeace organized events across the country on Dec. 6th as part of the Global Day of Climate Action 2008. These events show that Americans know what’s at stake, are ready to fight global warming, and expect our leaders to take bold action to address the most urgent environmental crisis we’ve ever faced.
It has been a year since governments in Bali pledged to nail down an agreement to save the climate by December 2009. That means they have one year left to agree on how to stop the climate crisis. This year’s UN meeting on Climate Change has just started in Poznan, Poland and we think it is about time for government leaders to stop the talking, get serious, and start real negotiations that will lead to real action.
If we are to avert catastrophic climate change the world must quit coal. But the industry and the powerful forces backing it will not go down without a fight. Today, in Warsaw, Greenpeace activists provided the coal industry fat cats with two reminders that we need real solutions to global warming -- and that means quitting coal.
The latest edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics has revealed that very few firms are showing true climate leadership. Despite many green claims, major companies like Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and Apple are failing to support the necessary levels of global cuts in emissions and make the absolute cuts in their own emissions that are required to tackle climate change.
Greenpeace today marked the opening of its office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by welcoming Congolese officials aboard its ship, the Arctic Sunrise, currently docked in Matadi, the country's principal port for timber exports.
The Brazilian Congress, influenced by the agribusiness sector, seeks to change the Forest Code in Brazil to open more of the Amazon rainforest to be cleared. Not only will this destroy forested areas in the Amazon no longer protected by the Forest Code, but the clearing and burning of these lands will release millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—making the impacts of climate change much worse.
