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"Dramatic discovery" confirms scientists' climate change predictions and holds tremendous significance in terms of sea level rise
Last edited 20 July 2005 at 8:00am
Greenpeace and the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) today called on the government not to scrap energy efficiency measures for British homes tomorrow if it is serious about tackling climate change. Britain's homes are responsible for over a quarter of our climate change gas emissions.
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Greenpeace teamed up with professional jokesters the Ministry of Fun to promote the Campaign for Real Milk. The aim of the campaign is to rid Wales of GM milk. For one day only a fake pub, The Cow Major, will be opening its doors on Queen Street serving up pints of GM free milk and alerting the people of Wales to the fact that most milk sold in Wales comes from cows fed on GM feed.
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Greenpeace is today taking the government to the High Court over its failure to prevent the deaths of thousands of dolphins every year.
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Turning everyday buildings into power stations could slash UK carbon emissions by at least 15%
Britain's homes and workplaces would become mini-power stations generating huge amounts of electricity and making the UK the leading nation in the fight against climate change, if the vision laid out in a new report becomes reality.
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Responding to the G8 communiqué on climate change Greenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale said:
"The scientific community has given an unequivocal signal that urgent and radical action is needed to cut emissions and stabilise the climate. The G8 communique has failed to acknowledge this warning. This has left the G8 leaders treading water on this crucial issue.
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7 July 2005 - Greenpeace today branded the G8 agreement on climate change 'a major missed opportunity to tackle dangerous climate change'.
Despite spin from the British government it is clear that there has been no change in the US position and it remains alone in resisting the urgent need for action.
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As the G8 summit gets underway in Scotland, environment and development groups are urging Prime Minister Tony Blair and other world leaders to stand up to President Bush and agree a clear way forward for climate protection.
The US is the only G8 country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the Bush administration has already tried to weaken early drafts of the G8 communiqué, objecting to language that includes statements that the world is warming, human activity is mostly to blame and developed economies must lead the fight against the problem.
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Children's plastic toys sold in Europe are to be made safer following a decision by the European Parliament today to ban manufacturers from using six toxic chemicals to soften the plastic. The ban follows evidence that the chemicals, shown to damage the kidneys, liver and sex organs in animals, can be ingested by children who suck the products. (1)
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Greenpeace today strongly criticised the Icelandic government's decision to issue quotas to hunt whales for the third year running. The government has just granted permission for 39 minke whales to be killed in the 2005 hunt. The Icelandic go-ahead comes just 2 weeks after so-called 'scientific whaling' was condemned by the International Whaling Commission at its 2005 meeting in Ulsan, Korea.
