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Thai Union commits to more sustainable, socially-responsible seafood
Bangkok, 11 July 2017 – Thai Union Group PCL has committed to measures that will tackle illegal fishing and overfishing, as well as improve the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the company’s supply chains.
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Violence against Indigenous peoples destroys our common home
Indigenous lands contain vast biological diversity. These communities are fighting not only to preserve their cultures but also to preserve what is left of Earth's wild ecosystems.
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5 ways tech companies are making your devices die too soon
Imagine a world where your electronic gadgets would last, or a place where your devices could be easily repaired. Imagine all the money saved!
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Apple, Samsung products among least repairable in new Greenpeace assessment of tech brands
San Francisco, 27 June 2017 - Fairphone, Dell and HP are the only companies that make spare parts and repair manuals available to the public, while products from brands such as Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among the least easy to repair and upgrade, according to Greenpeace’s latest IT product guide.
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What happened when we demanded that publishers hear the voices of 500,000 of you
More than half a million people have stood up for free speech and for the Canadian boreal forest, raising their voices to call on the largest global publishers to pay attention and be our allies.
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We speak for the trees
When Resolute Forest Products, Canada’s largest logging company, threw two multi-million dollar lawsuits at Greenpeace and Stand.Earth for speaking out for the protection of the Canadian boreal forest, people around the world did not sit idly by.
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Silent Spring, 2017
In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, drawing attention to the impact of DDT on bird populations. Her book inspired most nations to ban DDT by the 1980s. The ban and other protection efforts helped save some bird species from extinction, including the osprey, brown pelican, and white stork. However, fifty-five years after Carson's book,…
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Annual report 2016
Our planet and people are more interconnected than any world-wide-web we could create. What impacts one part, affects another and environmental protection is inextricably linked with social justice.
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Greenpeace activists call on G20 to act for plastic-free oceans
Bremen, 1 June 2017 – Greenpeace Germany activists took to the water today in protest against the world’s worsening marine plastic pollution crisis and called on the G20 countries to take concrete steps to adopt solutions and reduce the use of plastics.
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Authors around the world stand up for free speech and forests
Authors, journalists, poets and playwrights know that every time the right words are put to paper, or typed to a screen, our planet gets a little better. Because, without the right to express ourselves freely, we cannot make that positive change.
