08 September 2008
Fuel-efficient cars are a necessary step in reducing CO2 emissions since they consume less gas and emit less CO2 per km. But the level of knowledge about fuel-efficient cars is relatively low. The current situation is characterised by a severe information deficit on the side of car dealers and customers.
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02 September 2008
In response to the proposed legislation on CO2 emissions
from cars, European car manufacturers have repeatedly
claimed that it will be expensive to meet the originally proposed target of 120g CO2 per kilometre by 2012. Instead they are demanding legislation be put back to 2015, even though it has already been delayed from 2005.
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05 August 2008
The global market for electrical and electronic equipment continuesto expand, while the lifespan of many products becomes shorter.
Consequently, the waste stream of obsolete electrical and electronic products, commonly called “e-waste”, is also vast and growing, with estimates of 20-50 million tonnes per year being generated worldwide.
Many of the products contain numerous hazardous chemicals
and materials, and therefore the recycling and disposal of e-waste poses a threat to the environment and to human health.
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05 August 2008
As the global market for electronic goods expands, and the lifespan of many of those products gets shorter, there has been a rapid growth in electronic waste (e-waste). The UN estimates that 20-50 million tonnes of e-waste is produced globally every year.
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30 July 2008
This new investigative report exposes another hidden aspect of export-driven resource extraction in the DRC and the neighbouring Republic of the Congo. Internal company documents obtained by Greenpeace International show how the German owned, Swiss-based logging multinational Danzer
Group, one of the largest players in the Congo logging sector, is using an elaborate profit-laundering system designed to move income out of Africa and into offshore bank accounts, thereby appearing to evade tax payments
in the countries in which its companies operate.
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20 July 2008
The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) is a new reactor design developed by the French company AREVA in co-operation with the German firm Siemens. Serious doubts have been raised about the safety and cost of the EPR. Study of the
EPR’s blueprints and experience at the two sites where EPRs are under construction, in Finland
(Olkiluto 3) and France (Flamanville 3) has revealed weaknesses in design, problems during construction phases and soaring costs.
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10 July 2008
In October 2005 Greenpeace UK published a league table that ranked UK supermarkets on the basis of their seafood sourcing policies – this laid the ground-work for Greenpeace’s sustainable seafood campaign.
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01 July 2008
Millions of people around the world are suffering food shortages, unaffordable food prices and hunger, primarily due to industrial farming, bad harvests related to climate
change, unjust terms of trade and the rush for biofuels.
There is no single solution to the crisis. The G8 leaders at the Toyako, Japan summit from 7-9 July, need to step up emergency assistance to the 850 million people who are suffering from hunger, and address the underlying causes of the current food crisis. This briefing outlines the real solutions.
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01 July 2008
The Major Economies Meeting (originally the Major Emitters Meetings ) takes place in Toyako, Japan on 9 July on the sidelines of the G8 summit. It is an attempt by the Bush Administration to deflect international criticism from their ‘do nothing attitude’ on climate change. According to the US State Department, the process is “a new initiative to develop and contribute to a post-Kyoto framework on energy security and climate change by the end of 2008 ”.
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