About us

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.


Greenpeace is an independent organisation campaigning to ensure a just, peaceful, sustainable environment for future generations. Actions often speak louder than words and non-violent direct action is at the heart of Greenpeace campaigns, which have also grown to include lobbying and research over the past years to expose global environmental problems and force solutions.

 

Greenpeace International began in Canada in 1971 and today has a presence in more than 41 countries and 2.65 million supporters worldwide.

Greenpeace Mediterranean set up its first office in Malta in 1995, to set up a base for the co-ordination of Greenpeace activities in Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Malta, Syria, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority. We now actively campaign from bases in Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Beirut as well.

We campaign to:

--Promote a Nuclear Free Middle East
--Promote Peaceful Energy
--Defend our Mediterranean Sea

We exist to expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future.

In pursuing our mission, we have no permanent allies or enemies. We promote open, informed debate about society's environmental choices. We use research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise the level and quality of public debate.

And we believe that the struggle to preserve the future of our planet is not about us. It's about you. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide, and encourages many millions more than that to take action every day.

We take the name of our flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, from a North American Cree Indian legend. It described a time when humanity's greed has made the Earth sick. At that time, a tribe of people known as the Warriors of the Rainbow would rise up to defend her.

As one of the longest banners we've ever made summed things up, "When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money..."