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Greenpeace urges L’Oreal to implement policy without delay Jakarta, 30 January 2014 – L’Oreal, the world’s largest beauty and cosmetics company, has committed to remove forest destruction from its products by 2020. Greenpeace expects other companies to follow with more ambitious timelines. “In a win for consumers around the world, L’Oreal has committed to ending its …
Major brands exposing consumers to ‘dirty’ palm oil – Greenpeace Ferrero, Unilever and Mondelēz announce measures tackling forest destruction Jakarta, 18 November 2013 – Greenpeace International today revealed a selection of companies, including Procter & Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser, whose sourcing policies expose consumers to forest destruction. Among the selection of companies in the …
Pechora Sea, September 19, 2013 — The Russian Coast Guard has boarded the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise and is arresting the 25 activists on board following a protest against Gazprom’s Arctic oil drilling operations. At the time of the boarding, the Arctic Sunrise was circling Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform at the three nautical mile limit, …
Northern Sea Route, August 24, 2013 – The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise today entered the Northern Sea Route (NSR) off Russia’s coastline to protest against Arctic oil drilling, in defiance of Russian authorities who this week refused the ship permission to enter the area. Activists aboard the Greenpeace ship plan to engage in a peaceful …
Barents Sea, August 21, 2013 – The Russian government has denied permission for the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise to enter the increasingly busy Northern Sea Route (NSR), despite the ship having fulfilled all the requirements for such an entry. Greenpeace International claims the decision is an attempt to prevent it from exposing the activities of …
Amsterdam, July 1, 2013 – Greenpeace has found an illegal shipment of endangered wood from the Democratic Republic of Congo at a veneer-processing factory in the Czech Republic run by the controversial Swiss timber group Danzer. Under the new European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) that came into force in March, it is prohibited to place …
Amsterdam, June 10, 2013 – The IEA report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, calls on governments to enact four energy policies that would keep climate goals alive with no net costs. In response, Greg Muttitt at Greenpeace International said: “The climate danger is imminent, but the path to safety is clear and attainable. The question is, …
Auckland, May 29, 2013 – Greenpeace has today applauded a decision from New Zealand fishing brand Sealord to remove a destructing fishing method from its supply chain of canned skipjack tuna by early 2014 and urged the wider industry to follow suit. Currently Sealord buys much of its tuna from boats using purse seine nets …
Amsterdam, May 21, 2013 – Greenpeace International welcomes the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) decision to disassociate itself from the timber multinational Danzer Group following a complaint that one of the company’s former subsidiaries was involved in human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The landmark decision comes 18 months after Greenpeace filed …
Port Louis, Mauritius, May 10, 2013 – Greenpeace International condemned on Friday the lack of action by Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) members to halt the decline of the region’s most vulnerable tuna species and for adopting inadequate measures to protect sharks. IOTC members meeting in Mauritius did agree to the introduction of precautionary fishing …