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Greenpeace Urges China to Widely Apply Environmental Lessons from the Games

July 28, 2008

In its assessment of the 2008 Olympic Games, Greenpeace recognizes Beijing’s environmental achievements but also points out the opportunities the city has missed in using the Games as a platform to implement more ambitious initiatives across the city. Greenpeace further encourages the rest of China to move forward with Beijing towards a sustainable development model.

Greenpeace Exposes Unregulated GE Snacks Joint Social Forces Demand for Mandatory GE Labelling

July 06, 2008

Greenpeace finds again snacks containing genetically modified ingredients, which shows the government's delaying policy to implement mandatory GE labelling is undermining Hong Kong consumers' right to know.

Greenpeace intercepts illegal US electronic waste shipment to Hong Kong

June 14, 2008

Greenpeace activists boarded the Yang Ming Success and prevented the offloading of an illegal container of waste electronic devices (e-waste) from Port of Oakland in the United States, on its way to Sanshui district in mainland China, via Hong Kong. Activists unfurled a banner reading, “Toxic waste not welcomed here,” and demanded that Hong Kong authorities refuse entry of the container and return it to the US.