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13th Dec 2010
This video from LinkTV.org, covers the extravagant stunt put on by TckTckTck and Greenpeace illustrating civil society throwing a lifeline to the COP 16 negotiators on the final day of the conference.
2nd May 2008
Pepsico has won an Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiencies
20th Dec 2007
In a long-awaited proposal, presented today, for curbing global warming pollution from new cars, the European Commission has relegated climate change to the back seat and granted major concessions to the car industry, said Greenpeace.
14th Dec 2007
Greenpeace has called on gamers to persuade Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to make their consoles greener, the BBC reports.
30th Oct 2007 by Alex Briggs
Anheuser Busch has denied serious allegations by Greenpeace that their Budweiser beer contains traces of a genetically engineered strain of rice known as “Liberty Link”.
Liberty Link is a series of strains of GM rice from Bayer CropScience. Some of the strains are banned in a number of markets around the world for human consumption, but not in the US.
Due to Anheuser Busch’s position as the largest single purchaser of American rice, Greenpeace claims that the group had a responsibility to ensure it was fully aware of how it is sourcing ingredients.
18th Oct 2007 by Alex Briggs
China has agreed to phase out incandescent lightbulbs, according to this article. The switch could mitigate 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, equal to about half the climate-warming emissions of Germany. The European Union is scheduled to “choice edit” out inefficient lightbulbs within a decade. China currently produce 70% of the world’s lightbulbs.
12th Oct 2007
In this podcast, Neville Hobson interviews Douglas Parr, Greenpeace’s chief scientist, and David Chaytor, MP for Bury North. They discuss the roles of consumers, businesses and government in tackling climate change.
Also interviewed is Rebecca Willis, vice chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, who discusses the Grid 2.0 concept.
28th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs
Those were the key elements of last night’s Powering the UK event in Manchester. Greenpeace hosted the event at Manchester City’s stadium. The club is set to unveil a very large wind turbine just outside the stadium in the coming months, working with Ecotricity and the Manchester City Council to provide power to the stadium as well the surrounding neighborhoods.
Event: 27th Sep 2007, 6.30pm
Find out more about Manchester City FC’s conversion to wind power, and see the regional launch of Greenpeace’s The Convenient Solution.
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