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A new Greenpeace tissue league table released today reveals how Boots and Somerfield are fuelling the destruction of forests around the world. These companies are bottom of the table, because they sell few if any environmentally responsible tissue products.

omerfield have told Greenpeace that it has no plans to start using forest friendly fibre, while Boots stock only one environmentally friendly tissue product across their entire range. This is despite Boots having publicly committed to move towards sourcing all timber and paper products from well managed forests in 1992.

In this issue:

In this issue:

1. Greenpeace High Court victory exposes ‘seriously flawed’ nuclear consultation
2. Nuclear reactor sites liable to flooding
3. Nuclear utilities carry on regardless
4. Scottish political consensus against nuclear and for decentralised energy
5. Finnish reactor over budget and behind schedule
6. Energy White Paper set for 23rd May launch
7. British Energy’s cracked reactor bits
8. Green energy blueprint
9. Still no waste solution
10. Nuclear Tsar appointed - negotiations undermine consultation

It is clear that current management regimes are to blame for the widespread degradation of Europe’s seas. It is further widely accepted amongst many policy makers, scientists and others that we must therefore adopt a radical new approach to managing Europe’s seas – one that is precautionary in nature and has protection of the whole marine ecosystem as its primary objective. Such an ecosystem-based approach is vital if we are to ensure the health of our oceans for future generations.

As a result of Greenpeace’s successful legal challenge to the 2006 energy review consultation process, the government has been forced back to the drawing board to conduct what should be a comprehensive and necessarily lengthy review on whether to support new nuclear plants.

This short paper sets out some of the key questions which must be addressed as part of this consultation, and some of the information requirements to support a proper consultation on a new build nuclear programme.

 

North Sea cod stocks are in crisis; it has been classified as a ‘threatened and declining species’ since 2002. Unless a fishing ban is implemented, cod will become commercially extinct in the very near future. This report explains what needs to be done to tackle the cod crisis, including "a zero catch" allowance and the creation of marine reserves.

This report warns that the tropical hardwood species merbau (or kwila) will be extinct within 35 years or less if action is not taken to stop the destructive logging and trade of the species.