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Charges against Rainbow Warrior Captain Derek Nicholls are dismissed on the basis of his good character. The charges followed from an April Port Kembla blockade by Greenpeace of genetically engineered (GE) soy, part of our wider campaign against GE crop imports.
In July Queensland Energy Resources announced an end to the Stuart Shale Oil Project in Australia. Greenpeace campaigned against the project, which would have produced oil with four times the greenhouse impact as oil from the ground, since 1998. The project cost millions of dollars in government subsidies which should have been spent on renewable energy.
Greenpeace welcomes plans by Coca Cola, Unilever and MacDonalds to phase-out climate killing HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) in their refrigeration worldwide. The news follows Greenpeace's highly visible campaign against the compounds' use during the Sydney "Green" Olympics (2000).
A new international treaty against toxins, the Stockholm Convention, enters into force in May, 2004. It bans or seeks to eliminate 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the “dirty dozen” chemicals. Australia ratifies the treaty in May, but Greenpeace must continue to campaign against toxic waste incineration which will produce more of the chemicals.
The Bush Administration's attempt to silence Greenpeace fails in May as highly-criticised charges, arising from a peaceful February 2002 Greenpeace action against an illegal mahogany shipment, are thrown out of US court.
In a huge win for the environment, consumers and farmers, Monsanto announces in May that it will not introduce GE canola into Australia. Monsanto's withdrawal sends a strong message for Bayer's similar plans to introduce the crop into Australia -- plans Greenpeace will continue to campaign against.
After the world's tallest treesit, logging of Tasmania's 400-year-old forests becomes an Australian election issue, and puts Styx Valley forest destruction under the international spotlight. The Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society campaign elicits concern from Tasmanian woodchip importer Nippon Paper and puts Gunns Ltd in the hot seat.
Efforts by Greenpeace and other environmental groups are bolstered when Oxfam joins the Solomons Eco-Foresty program in March, allowing sustainable forest management, training and project monitoring to continue and improve for another 18 months.
Papua New Guinea landowners attend a Greenpeace-funded eco-forestry tour to find solutions to protect their ancestral lands from the runaway and illegal logging which threatens to destroy most of PNG's forests.
Celebrities join us in the City to Surf in Sydney.
In July Queensland Energy Resources announced an end to the Stuart Shale Oil Project in Australia. Greenpeace campaigned against the project, which would have produced oil with four times the greenhouse impact as oil from the ground, since 1998. The project cost millions of dollars in government subsidies which should have been spent on renewable energy.
Greenpeace welcomes plans by Coca Cola, Unilever and MacDonalds to phase-out climate killing HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) in their refrigeration worldwide. The news follows Greenpeace's highly visible campaign against the compounds' use during the Sydney "Green" Olympics (2000).
A new international treaty against toxins, the Stockholm Convention, enters into force in May, 2004. It bans or seeks to eliminate 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the “dirty dozen” chemicals. Australia ratifies the treaty in May, but Greenpeace must continue to campaign against toxic waste incineration which will produce more of the chemicals.
The Bush Administration's attempt to silence Greenpeace fails in May as highly-criticised charges, arising from a peaceful February 2002 Greenpeace action against an illegal mahogany shipment, are thrown out of US court.
In a huge win for the environment, consumers and farmers, Monsanto announces in May that it will not introduce GE canola into Australia. Monsanto's withdrawal sends a strong message for Bayer's similar plans to introduce the crop into Australia -- plans Greenpeace will continue to campaign against.
After the world's tallest treesit, logging of Tasmania's 400-year-old forests becomes an Australian election issue, and puts Styx Valley forest destruction under the international spotlight. The Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society campaign elicits concern from Tasmanian woodchip importer Nippon Paper and puts Gunns Ltd in the hot seat.
Efforts by Greenpeace and other environmental groups are bolstered when Oxfam joins the Solomons Eco-Foresty program in March, allowing sustainable forest management, training and project monitoring to continue and improve for another 18 months.
Papua New Guinea landowners attend a Greenpeace-funded eco-forestry tour to find solutions to protect their ancestral lands from the runaway and illegal logging which threatens to destroy most of PNG's forests.
Celebrities join us in the City to Surf in Sydney.
