Media Release - Victory for NT over Coke on recycling
Sydney, 7 Aug 2013: Environment and community groups from around Australia today congratulated the Northern Territory, state and federal governments for working together to reinstate the Northern...
View ArticleGreenpeace welcomes delay on major new QLD coal mine
Greenpeace today welcomed the decision by federal Environment Minister Mark Butler to postpone for almost 3 months a decision on the massive new Kevin’s Corner coal mine proposed for central...
View ArticleGovernment ducks decision on Reef protection
Friday 9 August, 2013: Greenpeace is disappointed by the postponement of a decision on the controversial dredging proposal at Abbot Point in north Queensland, despite clear evidence of the threats...
View ArticlePacific tuna stocks in alarming decline
Pohnpei, Micronesia, August 15 2013 - Pacific tuna stocks are experiencing further decline and current management measures are failing to restore stocks, a ten-day meeting of the Scientific Committee...
View ArticleGreenpeace parodies ‘Coke Rewards’ site to boost cash for containers campaign
Greenpeace launches new website.Greenpeace Australia Pacific has launched a new website www.cokerefunds.org parodying www.cokerewards.com.au that highlights Coca-Cola Amatil’s muscular campaign to...
View ArticleARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS SCALING SHARD IN ARCTIC PROTEST
Thursday 11th July 2013: A group of artists and activists has evaded security guards at the base of the Shard and is now climbing up the outside of Western Europe’s tallest sky-scraper. If the six...
View ArticleRevealed: 91 new coal projects Australia can’t afford
Burning all fossil fuel reserves would lead to unprecedented changes in climate so severe that they will challenge the existence of our society as we know it today. (Climate Commission, The Critical...
View ArticleCongratulations Minister Butler, now please Save the Reef
Sydney 2nd July 2013: Greenpeace congratulates Mark Butler on his elevation to the portfolios of Environment and Climate Change and has urged him to get off to a good start by rejecting a dredging...
View ArticleNGOs call on Aurizon to abandon GVK deal
Sydney 2nd July 2013: Civil society groups representing millions of members worldwide have sent Aurizon CEO Lance Hockridge and the Board an open letter urging it to abandon plans to buy GVK Hancock’s...
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Environmental scientist and top model calls for end to rising tide of deadly...
Sydney, 9 July, 2013: Environmental scientist and international top model Laura Wells is featured in a new billboard campaign by Greenpeace as part of its push for a national Cash for Containers Scheme...
View ArticleGovernment ducks decision on Reef protection
Friday 9 August, 2013: Greenpeace is disappointed by the postponement of a decision on the controversial dredging proposal at Abbot Point in north Queensland, despite clear evidence of the threats...
View ArticlePalm oil leading cause of Indonesia forest destruction: RSPO leaves big...
Jakarta/Sydney, 3 September 2013: The palm oil sector was the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia between 2009-2011, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s forest loss,...
View ArticleGreenpeace sounds the alarm on the state of Philippine tuna: Calls for action...
General Santos City, Philippines, September 7, 2013 - Greenpeace today warned major tuna industry players in the Phillippines that unless drastic measures are put into place to halt the decline of the...
View Article‘Forget the rules, let’s dredge the reef and trash the climate.’
12 September 2013: In an extraordinary display of over-reach the Queensland Premier has asked Prime Minister-elect, Tony Abbott, to give the coal industry special treatment and fast-track the approvals...
View ArticleGreenpeace congratulates and cautions incoming Environment Minister, Greg Hunt
Greenpeace welcomes the appointment of Greg Hunt as new Environment Minister at a time of unprecedented challenges for his portfolio.In his first 100 days, Greg Hunt will define his term as Environment...
View ArticleGreenpeace calls on Pacific governments to ensure tuna development brings...
Honiara, 18 September, 2013: At the 4th Pacific Tuna Forum in the Solomon Islands, Greenpeace is alarmed that despite the increased drive for domestic investment and value adding in the region’s tuna...
View ArticleArmed Russian Coast Guard boards peaceful Greenpeace protest ship, arrests crew
Pechora Sea, September 20, 2013 — The Russian Coast Guard has boarded the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise and is arresting the 25 activists on board following a protest against Gazprom’s...
View ArticleArctic sea ice reaches minimum for 2013 as Greenpeace activists are held in...
Sydney/Amsterdam, 20th September 2013: US Scientists have announced that Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its sixth lowest extent in recorded history this year. The news comes as 30 Greenpeace...
View ArticleGreenpeace International dismisses Russian allegations of piracy as...
Sydney/Amsterdam, September 21, 2013 - Greenpeace International has strongly rejected an allegation of piracy leveled at its ship Arctic Sunrise in the Russian Arctic, describing it as a desperate...
View ArticleGreenpeace International ship nears Murmansk port as 30 activists await...
Sydney/Murmansk, September 24, 2013 - The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving in the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week following a peaceful protest...
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