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FSC puts business interests first

FSC puts business interests first

Blog entry by Asti Roesle | 26 August, 2014

As a member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Switzerland, as well as a Greenpeace campaigner focused on doing everything I can to protect our planet's last untouched forests, I am alarmed that FSC has already decided to...

Ecoforestry: an alternative for Papua New Guinean forest communities

Ecoforestry: an alternative for Papua New Guinean forest communities

Blog entry by Sam Moko | 30 July, 2013 1 comment

Since 2011, the people of Papua New Guinea have been waiting for the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs). In the meantime, logging companies have been fast-tracking the harvesting...

Eco-forestry

Background | 28 February, 2006 at 11:20

Eco-forestry is an alternative to industrial logging. Using minimal impact harvesting methods, landowners fell small number of carefully selected trees, process and transport the timber without damaging the surrounding forest.

IT-enabled solutions

Background | 27 April, 2010 at 12:58

The implementation of ICT solutions in five sectors - buildings, transport, manufacturing, power, and 'dematerialization' of services - has the potential to cut 7.8 metric GtCO2 by 2020 - 15 percent of today's emissions. (McKinsey Quarterly...

IT-enabled solutions

Background | 27 April, 2010 at 12:58

The implementation of ICT solutions in five sectors - buildings, transport, manufacturing, power, and 'dematerialization' of services - has the potential to cut 7.8 metric GtCO2 by 2020 - 15 percent of today's emissions. (McKinsey Quarterly...

IT-enabled solutions

Background | 27 April, 2010 at 12:58

The implementation of ICT solutions in five sectors - buildings, transport, manufacturing, power, and 'dematerialization' of services - has the potential to cut 7.8 metric GtCO2 by 2020 - 15 percent of today's emissions. (McKinsey Quarterly...

Renewed 'Golden' rice hype is propaganda for genetic engineering industry

Press release | 21 March, 2005 at 1:00

The first steps in reboosting the 'Golden' rice hype were taken when Ingo Potrykus, the inventor of the genetically engineered (GE) rice, suggested last Friday in a public presentation (1) that the new generation of 'Golden' rice can contain an...

Vodka today for Monday we go to work on the climate

Press release | 22 October, 2004 at 2:00

In a long awaited and much heralded move, the Russian Parliament, the Duma, voted today to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Russian Government gives green light to climate change treaty

Press release | 30 September, 2004 at 2:00

Greenpeace welcomed the news that the Russian Government has given the green light to the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol today (1).

Offshore Wind - Implementing a new power house for Europe

Publication | 4 April, 2005 at 2:00

Offshore Wind - Implementing a new Power House for Europe is a strategic blueprint that outlines how offshore wind farms will be able to supply about 10% of Europe's electricity sector by 2020. The report represents a crucial tool in the race to...

Look before you log

Publication | 15 April, 2002 at 2:00

This report explores the use of logging moratoria to support ancient forest conservation and sustainable use including a look at seven case studies from around the world.

Freedom for the Seas: Now and for the Future

Publication | 1 March, 2008 at 1:00

It is clearer today than ever before that the threats to ocean life are growing and beyond the capacity of any one nation to address alone. While in the past, we primarily spoke of overfishing or destructive fishing and their impacts on ocean...

Black Holes in Deep Oceans Space: Closing the Legal Voids in High Seas Biodiversity...

Publication | 1 March, 2008 at 1:00

The challenges facing our oceans in the 21st Century require that the primacy of the concept of “Freedom for the Seas” (Libertas Mari) be restored. The international community must act now on its commitments to protect the marine environment, so...

Greenpeace Briefing: China - taking action on climate change

Publication | 24 September, 2007 at 2:00

What China is doing in response to climate change?

Sauvegarder les Forets pour preserver le climat

Publication | 21 September, 2009 at 17:10

French version of the Greenpeace Policy on Saving Forests to Protect the Climate

Investment board told to stop supporting dirty energy

Investment board told to stop supporting dirty energy

Press release | 29 July, 2002 at 2:00

Investment policy is being targeted in the campaign to bring renewable energy to the Philippines

Greenpeace rounds up 'wall of death' fishing nets in the Mediterranean sea

Greenpeace rounds up 'wall of death' fishing nets in the Mediterranean sea

Press release | 23 June, 2006 at 2:00

Greenpeace activists aboard the Rainbow Warrior early this morning confronted Italian fishing pirates in the Mediterranean sea, some 65 kilometres south of the Italian island of Ponza, confiscating a section of the 8 kilometre long and 12 metre...

Ten football pitches worth of ocean floor devastated every four seconds

Ten football pitches worth of ocean floor devastated every four seconds

Press release | 7 June, 2006 at 2:00

As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, Greenpeace has revealed the shocking fact that every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers. Tomorrow has...

Greenpeace wins World Press Photo award for effects of climate change and nuclear power

Greenpeace wins World Press Photo award for effects of climate change and nuclear power

Press release | 10 February, 2006 at 1:00

Greenpeace International has won two prizes at the prestigious World Press Photo awards for images depicting the drought in the Amazon last year and the lingering effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Government of Japan: Don't empty our oceans

Government of Japan: Don't empty our oceans

Press release | 11 October, 2004 at 2:00

Greenpeace activists today held a peaceful demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy to demand that the government of Japan vote in favour of the conservation of marine species at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (1).

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