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| Suspension of GE Rice |
The Chinese government announce they would suspend any commercialization of GE rice for 5-10 years. Four government departments are now engaged in action to remove illegal GE rice from seed markets and rice fields. This follows a seven year campaign from Greenpeace against GE rice, which in 2011 included a consumers guide that reached about half a million Chinese citizens via web and mobile, as well as over 4,500 signatures on a petition demanding action from supermarkets to rid their stores of GE products.
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| Demanding Top Brands Detox |
After one and a half years of investigation, we reveal that major textile brands were involved in polluting Chinese rivers through their Chinese suppliers. After publishing these results we demanded the guilty brands stop polluting China's rivers and lakes by eliminating all hazardous chemicals from their entire supply chains.
Six major brands (PUMA, Nike, Adidas, Li-Ning, H&M and C&A) commit to zero discharge of all hazardous chemicals by 2020. Jointly they publish a Joint Action Plan that outlines concrete steps they will take to achieve that goal.
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| Revealing the Dangers of Coal Dust |
Dust is not the only makeup of China's infamous sandstorms. They also contain toxic pollutants from coal combustion. Sandstorms can disperse coal ash – containing arsenic, selenium and lead – far from their origin in coal-industry areas to eastern China, posing health and environmental threats to Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. We release the report 'Coal Dust Storms: Toxic Wind', highlighting the heavy metal contamination in coal ash dust. The report was part of our much lauded series "The True Cost of Coal".
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| Cutting Ties with Deforestation |
After an 8 week campaign combining consumer pressure, social media and non-violent direct action, we persuade Nestle, the world’s largest food company, to stop buying and using palm oil from sources that destroy rainforests. This includes Indonesian company Sinar Mas, whose plantations play a large role in the widespread destruction of rainforest and carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia.
We also convince global retail and wholesale supermarket group Metro to stop buying and selling Asia Pulp and Paper’s rainforest-destroying paper products in China. Carrefour, Auchan and Tesco also make commitments to stop using APP in their own-brand paper products in China. |
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| Protecting our Foods From Genetic Engineering |
Rice brands from Cofco and Yihai Kerry, two major agribusiness groups in China, join the hundreds of Hong Kong and Mainland China food brands that have made commitments to keep their food GE-free. Other brands include Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Danone, Kraft, Ezaki Glico and Nissin instant noodles. Our Shoppers’ Guide to Avoiding GE Food has the details. |
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| Safer Supermarkets |
Greenpeace lobbies five major supermarket chains (Auchan, Carrefour, Shanghai City Shop, Beijing Ito Yokado, Huapu) to ban GE from their own-brand foods as well as unpackaged raw and fresh foods. They also committed to ban extremely or highly hazardous pesticides from their fresh, unpackaged vegetables, fruit, and grains. Walmart promises to not sell GE rice. |
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Blacklisting Polluters
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Several months after Greenpeace released two reports – Silent Giants and Poisoning the Pearl – on industrial water pollution in the Pearl River Delta, the local Guangdong environmental protection bureau published a blacklist of 20 polluting factories. Three of the factories were named among the five factories we exposed in Poisoning the Pearl. |
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Hong Kong's Air Pollution
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Greenpeace launched an iPhone application in Hong Kong allowing the public to access a real-time air pollution index. This application has been so popular that it has been among the top 10 free downloads in Hong Kong. |
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| True Cost of Coal |
The Chinese government said it would look into coal pricing reform after Greenpeace released The True Cost of Coal report. The document outlines the high environmental, social and economic loss to China of using coal. |
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| Trading Timber |
After Greenpeace’s Sharing the Blame report exposed China’s role in the illegal timber trade that’s destroying rainforests, China’s largest home furnishing retailer B&Q pledged to ensure that all of its wood and paper products in its 60 stores across from China will come from certified legal and responsibly managed forests by 2010. It immediately dropped its merbau flooring, which the company was unable to certify as legal. In January 2011, B&Q became the first home furnishings company to sell FSC-certified flooring in China. |
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| A stronger e-waste law |
After years of Greenpeace campaigning against e-waste, the Chinese government released a new regulation aimed at reducing or eliminating the use of hazardous chemicals in electronics products. The regulation, titled “Measures for the Control of Pollution from Electronic Information Products,” took effect in 2007 and bans lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ether. |
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| Greening Electronics |
Greenpeace’s three-year long campaign has succeeded in greening the computer industry. The global computer giants – Dell, Acer and Lenovo – have all pledged to phase out the most toxic materials in their products. The three companies represent 30% of the global computer market. |
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