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Awesome news! LEGO just announced it will not renew its contract with Arctic destroyer Shell. This is thanks to more than a million people all over the world who asked LEGO to quit helping Shell clean up its image for dirty oil drilling. It’s a huge blow to Shell’s strategy of partnering with beloved brands …
Greenpeace,Transparent World, World Resource Institute, University of Maryland, WWF-Russia call for redoubled effort to protect last great forest wilderness sites To view the Intact Forest Landscape mapping methods and findings please visit: www.intactforests.org. Washington, September 4, 2014 — New analysis and maps released today reveal the alarming speed at which the world’s largest expanses of …
Amsterdam, 18 August 2014 – Greenpeace International today joined Greenpeace India’s call for Indian authorities to protect democracy and ensure a fair and transparent village council vote in the Mahan forest, over a proposed coal mine development by Essar and Hindalco, where Essar is the majority beneficiary. The local administration in Mahan has called for …
Jakarta, 30 June 2014 – A study in the journal Nature Climate Change alleges that the rate of deforestation in Indonesia is now the highest in the world. The study claims Indonesia lost 840,000 hectares of forest in 2012 compared to 460,000 hectares in Brazil. In response, Forest Campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Yuyun Indradi, …
Jakarta, 5 May 2014 – President SBY gave a keynote speech today at the Forests Asia Summit on balancing a “green” economy with economic growth, including a call on his successor to extend again the moratorium on deforestation. Bustar Maitar, head of the Indonesia Forest Campaign at Greenpeace International, responded: “President SBY’s legacy risks going up …
Amsterdam, April 27th 2014 – Greenpeace today revealed that the French oil company Total has purchased the first ever shipment of offshore Arctic oil from the Russian energy giant Gazprom. The environmental group accused Total of hypocrisy, citing a previous pledge by the firm’s CEO to avoid Arctic oil drilling due to the consequences of …
Yokohama, Japan, March 31 2014 – Greenpeace urged world leaders to accelerate the transition to clean and safe energy as the UN climate panel issued on Monday a new warning on the looming climate chaos. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said climate change impacts are already widespread across all continents and oceans and …
Yokohama, Japan, March 25 2014 – A climate crisis that risks peace and security can still be avoided by accelerating the clean energy revolution, Greenpeace said on Tuesday. Issuing an SOS emergency alert ahead of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Japan, Greenpeace warned that climate change is already devastating nations, destroying …
Cincinnati, USA, 4 March 2014 – Greenpeace released a spoof video of the Procter & Gamble’s “Thank You Mom” advertisement showing how deforestation for palm oil is orphaning orangutans in Indonesian. Greenpeace activists also took action today at P&G’s global headquarters in a protest with a ‘tiger’ hanging from a zip line between the company’s …
Jakarta, 12 February 2014 – A host of Hollywood stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Kellan Lutz and Gillian Anderson have joined thousands of concerned consumers in calling for an end to every day products being manufactured through forest destruction. The Tiger Manifesto, launched by Greenpeace, is a way for consumers to demand products are forest and …