successes
Posted by jossc — 23 May 2008 at 12:32pm
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Hurrah! At last some good news for threatened Pacific tuna. Eight Pacific Island nations have signed an agreement to stop foreign fishing fleets taking their tuna. Our ship the Esperanza has been in the Pacific for the last seven weeks confronting unscrupulous foreign fleets that take 90 per cent of the fish, and even more of the profit.
Posted by jossc — 20 May 2008 at 10:53am
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Greenpeace Japan delivering stolen whale meat to the Tokyo Public Prosecutor's Office
You did it! Following last week's revelation that crew members from the fleet responsible for Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling programme had for many years been stealing and illegally selling off prime whale bacon at the end of each annual hunt, more than 40,000 of you wrote to the Japanese government to demand an investigation. Today the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor has confirmed that there will be one.
Posted by jossc — 1 May 2008 at 12:29pm
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Potentially good news for orang-utans - Unilever announced this morning that they're now supporting our calls
for a moratorium to protect Indonesia's rainforests from destruction at the hands of the expanding palm oil industry.
When we sent in our own 'orang-utans' to Unilever HQ last week to tell them
that they needed to do more to stop rainforest and peatlands being
cleared to make way for palm oil plantations, company executives told us
that they wouldn't be forced into a quick decision on the matter.
Posted by jamie — 19 March 2008 at 4:53pm
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Another country is well on the way to making
the switch as last week Argentina
joined the rapidly growing list of nation states getting ready to use only
energy efficient light bulbs.
If the Argentinean president Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner gets her way, by the end of 2010 mandatory efficiency
standards will be introduced which will effectively ban incandescent bulbs.
Better yet, she said her decision came as a direct result of the campaign run
by our office in Buenos Aires.
And earlier this year, Italy followed Ireland's example to become the
second EU country to propose similar efficiency standards and is also expected
to remove incandescents from sale in 2010. All these bulb bans are a small but
vital step in reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, and introducing minimum
energy efficiency standards on all electrical equipment has to be the ultimate
goal.
Posted by jossc — 6 December 2007 at 4:39pm
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Good
news on the energy conservation front - Ireland will be the first EU
country to ban energy-wasting incandescent lightbulbs.
The
Irish government announced today that, as part of its national Carbon budget, the
old-style power hungry bulbs will be banned from 2009. Greenpeace congratulates
the Ireland
on its decision to lead the world in this simple but essential step in tackling
climate change.
Posted by jamie — 16 November 2007 at 1:27pm
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We've had
some excellent news in the Book Campaign as Hachette Livre, the largest book publisher in the UK, have finally produced an environmental policy which includes some great commitments to making sure the paper they use will be forest-friendly. With imprints such as Hodder & Stoughton, Orion and Little Brown, they publish nearly one-fifth of all books sold in this country, so it's a very big deal.
Posted by jamie — 27 September 2007 at 3:22pm
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Great news. Woolworths have made a significant shift in their light bulbs policy and, as a result, are not longer bottom of the heap on our retailers league table.
After receiving thousands of emails and signatures from their customers (ie you) eager to see them take a lead on energy efficiency, Woolies will now be phasing out incandescent light bulbs by the end of 2010. It's not quite the 2008 date we were looking for, but never the less it's a massive improvement and they're now well ahead of many other companies such as Tesco and Waitrose. They're also cutting the price of their efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
Posted by jamie — 26 July 2007 at 5:30pm
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We're beginning to see the first positive results from the light bulb retailers league table we published nearly two weeks ago. Both ASDA and Morrisons have just announced they will improve their game plan and phase out those power-crazy incandescents by the end of 2010, which moves them a couple of places up the league table, leapfrogging several other retailers.
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Posted by jamie — 3 May 2007 at 11:18am
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