Tuna giant Bolton says it will be '100% sustainable' by 2017, but how?
After the huge success of our UK tinned
tuna campaign, described by the Independent
as "one of the most successful environmental campaigns in years", it was great
to hear a big European tuna brand - Bolton commit to completely clean up its act.
Senegalese fisherman join Greenpeace campaigners in defending fish stocks from industrial trawlers
In the run up to the Senegalese presidential elections, Youssou N’dour isn’t the only controversial show on the road. Last week, a caravan tour organised by the small-scale fishing sector and our colleagues in Greenpeace Africa, called on presidential candidates to take urgent action against foreign super trawlers.
Greenpeace protesters at EDF Evolutionary Power Reactor in France
Despite the growing shift of support away from nuclear energy in
Europe, EDF is stubbornly pushing forward plans to build a new nuclear
reactor
in the UK, without sufficient consideration for all the relevant risks.
The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new
report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of
the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.
I’ve passed north of the polar circle on our trip visiting the west coast of Greenland. The temperature has dropped to -15C: snow is mounting outside my window and in the beautiful harbour city Sisimiut the fjord is filled with ice. At night time, the northern lights are dancing in the sky to the distant howling from the town’s sledge dogs. This wolf-like dog is only allowed north of the Arctic Circle. In a few days, I will be debating oil drilling at the local college – a college that focuses specifically on minerals and petroleum.
Rubbish piled up on the barren ground of the tar sands outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
President Obama has just said no to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Despite a fierce lobbying campaign by oil companies and by Canada's Harper government, Obama spiked the pipeline - in part thanks to an unprecedented and global grassroots uprising.
THANK YOU everyone who took action yesterday and
took a historic stand against Internet censorship. We're proud to have
stood shoulder to shoulder with some of the world's biggest websites
and all of you, in opposing Sopa and Pipa - the two pieces of
legislation in the US designed to prevent copyright piracy on the web,
but which would have granted corporations unprecedented powers to limit
free expression.
Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 1911
Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September, more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first trekked across similar icescapes at both frozen ends of the planet. My first time stepping down onto the floating Arctic ice was exciting enough; hard to comprehend what it was like for those who were pushing the boundaries of where humans had previously explored.
Under proposed US censorship laws, our websites could be shut down because we spoofed VW's logo
In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the
right to censor the internet has to rank among the worst ever.
But
that's what the impact of two bills recently introduced in the US
Congress would be if they, or anything like them, were enacted into law,
and it's causing a righteous ruckus among free speech activists around
the world.
Over the last two weeks all of the Big Six energy companies - E.On, RWE, nPower, British Gas, EDF, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy - have announced reduction in their prices for gas or electricity. However, our analysis of the reductions in wholesale prices compared to the retail prices show that the Big Six are not passing on the fulls savings to their customers.
