Wastewater discharged from a denim washing factory in Xintang, Zengcheng, China
Clothing giant H&M has responded to a torrent of tweets, Facebook
updates, and Detox sticker actions last week with a public commitment to
Detox. Hazardous chemicals are out. Transparency and transformational
change are in.
Kumi Naidoo on route to Cairn's oil rig drilling in the Arctic earlier this year.
Believe it or not, Greenpeace celebrates its 40 birthday today!
To mark the occasion, Kumi Naidoo, our International Executive Director,
calls on us all to take inspiration from that first Greenpeace voyage,
and to demand a better future for our planet.
70% of China's rivers and lakes are now dangerously polluted: manufacturing industry being the main cause
There's
a skeleton in H&M's closet. The fast-fashion retailer sells clothes
made with chemicals which cause hazardous water pollution around the
world, and the only way to stop this water pollution is to come clean
and stop using such chemicals for good. As one of the largest clothing
groups in the world, a H&M committed to a toxic-free future would
set a trend for the rest of the fashion industry to follow.
It’s on. Moments ago Greenpeace volunteers across the UK, France
and Germany arrived on VW
forecourts to challenge Volkswagen – Europe’s
biggest carmaker – to change its ways.
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Our activists are protesting at VW forecourts across the UK, France and Germany, but we need your help to reach as many VW dealerships as possible. Volkswagen
has so far solidly refused to stop lobbying against cuts to CO2 emissions and
increases in car efficiency that we need to combat climate change.
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In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120km off the coast of Greenland.
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17 June 2011 at 10:28am -
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Our
International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo is right now braving freezing seas
to scale an Arctic oil rig. He's taking direct action to demand an end to
Arctic drilling.
Businesses hold a huge sway over our governments. Stating
the bleeding obvious, I know. So it’s probably not surprising that some major
companies are lobbying to sabotage efforts to improve European climate targets.
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17 May 2011 at 5:38pm -
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David Cameron stepped into a cabinet row this week and accepted the recommendations from the government’s independent climate advisors for ambitious targets that would lead to a 50% cut in carbon emissions by 2025.
You’d
be forgiven for remembering the UN Copenhagen climate talks (in
December 2009) only for their epic failure to deliver a global agreement to
reduce carbon emissions. But there was at least one important issue agreed which
has the potential to have a significant impact on the climate - as well as
protecting biodiversity.
