press releases

Greenpeace members are protesting outside 22 London Sainsbury's stores today after it was revealed the supermarket's own brand milk comes from cows fed on a GM diet.

The protesters, who are dressed as cows and milkmen, are offering customers the chance to exchange any GM milk they've bought for organic milk, free of charge.

Responding to the publication of the Government's National Allocation Plan for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Greenpeace Executive Director Stephen Tindale said:

"Tony Blair should have stuck to his guns. Just days after calling global warming the greatest problem we face, he's retreating in the face of a little light lobbying from business. On the same day new evidence of global warming is published, Mr Blair is sending out all the wrong signals. You have to wonder how he's going to take the really tough decisions on climate when he can't even get the easy ones right."

Greenpeace is urging the UK and other countries to adopt a new draft treaty to control and outlaw fissile materials - the essential materials for nuclear weapons. The draft treaty text will be presented to the UK and other ambassadors attending the United Nation's Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meeting in New York today (4th May).

AWE Aldermaston - Britain's atomic bomb factory

Greenpeace is urging the UK and other national governments to adopt 13 new steps to tackle nuclear proliferation at this year's Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory conference, currently underway in New York.

Greenpeace today urged the government to bring HMS Trafalgar back to port and withdraw all Trafalgar and Swiftsure class 'hunter killer' submarines for urgent safety checks, following reports that HMS Trafalgar is suffering up to 270 different safety defects.

Readers in the Netherlands will soon be able to buy fiction titles safe in the knowledge that they are not contributing to the destruction of the world's ancient forests. We're planning to make sure book lovers in the UK can do the same.

Fourteen Dutch publishers - representing 75% of the Dutch fiction book market - have recently committed to working with Greenpeace to switch their paper supply to recycled and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper.

Brussels On the same day that French newspaper Le Monde reveals confidential expert opinion that raises doubts about the safety of a genetically modified (GM) maize recently cleared by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Greenpeace has released a report criticising the new EU GMO evaluation procedures. The environmental group today urges European Agriculture Ministers to reject a Commission proposal to allow the import and marketing of a GM sweet corn for human consumption.

Two women survivors from the world's worst industrial disaster - the Bhopal gas tragedy - have won one of the most prestigious international environmental awards. Dubbed the "Nobel Prize for the Environment", the Goldman Environmental Prize (1) was awarded to Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, for their role in keeping the memories of Bhopal alive, and leading the struggle in Bhopal for justice since 1984, when poisonous gas leak from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people.

Amsterdam/ Brussels Two days before new European Union rules on labelling and traceability of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) come into effect, international environmental group Greenpeace announced that it was stepping up its campaign against the spread of genetically engineered (GE) soya and to mobilise consumers against GE food.

Greenpeace today supported the European Commission's proposal to force BNFL to act more quickly to clean up the B30 spent nuclear fuel pond at its notorious Sellafield site in Cumbria.

Concern around B30, a 50-year-old nuclear storage pond, centres on the fact that it is so old that there are inadequate records of exactly what nuclear materials the plant contains. Estimates put the amount of plutonium in B30 at 1.3 tonnes.