science

Nanotechnology - a space for public debate

Last edited 19 May 2005 at 8:00am
The crowd at the Greenpeace/New Scientist debate

The crowd at the Greenpeace/New Scientist debate

Political and public conflict over technological developments like genetically modified organisms highlighted how different sectors of society can take radically different views over scientific 'progress'. Clearly some of the issues important to the public were not asked in the development of GM crops.

Article tagged as: nanojury, nanotechnology, science

Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex — 22 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
smokestack

smokestack

The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex — 22 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
smokestack

smokestack

The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change

Posted by bex — 14 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
Sir David King

Sir David King

According to the government's chief scientist, Sir David King, while the evidence continues to grow, what we really need to see is action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

"Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," said Sir David at the Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming in London.

As scientists around the world study the changes in our climate going back almost a million years, they confirm what many of us know, climate change is already here.

Article tagged as: climate change, government, greenpeace business, impacts, lecture, renewable energy, science, sir david king

Transcript of Sir David King speaking at the Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming

Last edited 13 October 2004 at 8:00am
Flood measure

Flood measure

It's a great honour for me to be here speaking at the Greenpeace business lecture and it's also a wonderful opportunity for me to talk to you about the issue that, as Doug has just said, I consider to be the most serious issue facing us this century and beyond. What I'm going to do is run through the science behind climate change and then I'll run through what the British government is doing and what the international situation is and the sorts of things that we all ought to be doing on this issue. So just kicking off with the science.

Article tagged as: climate change, government, greenpeace business, renewable energy, science, sir david king

Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming: the imperatives for action

Posted by bex — 11 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
Flooding in PragueSir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom and Head of the Office of Science and Technology, will deliver a speech at the next Greenpeace Business lecture. The lecture will be held at the Royal Society of Arts and will be chaired by Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK. Ithe third Greenpeace Business lecture on Tuesday 12 October 2004. The lecture will focus on the science of global warming and the need for action.


Article tagged as: climate change, greenpeace business, lecture, science, sir david king

The day after tomorrow: who will you blame?

Last edited 7 May 2004 at 8:00am
7 May, 2004

Environmental campaigners have taken up a challenge from the producers of the upcoming blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, by launching a new website.

www.thedayaftertomorrow.org is a spoof on the dot com website of the same name. The movie, to be launched on 28 May, recounts a fictional disaster in which climate change brings about a new ice age. The producers have stated that campaigners should take advantage of the film.

Article tagged as: climate change, impacts, kyoto protocol, press releases, science, stop esso

The Precautionary Principle

Last edited 24 May 2012 at 3:49pm

The Precautionary Principle is now a well-accepted principle of international law, and is an attempt to legally codify the well-known maxim, "look before you leap". Greenpeace supports the Precautionary Principle in the face of environmental threats that are potentially devastating but unknown in scope and range of impacts - such as GMOs and nuclear power.

Article tagged as: precautionary principle, press releases, science

A brief history of science and society

Last edited 1 November 2003 at 9:00am
Oil seed rape

Oilseed rape

Article tagged as: environmental policy, GM, science

Science: Our critique

Last edited 1 November 2003 at 9:00am
Greenpeace Research Labs: Dr R Stringer

Greenpeace Research Labs: Dr R Stringer

Article tagged as: environmental policy, greenpeace international research laboratories, science