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Greenpeace welcomes Russian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol

Last edited 22 October 2004 at 8:00am
22 October, 2004

Greenpeace today welcomed the long awaited decision by the Russian Parliament, the Duma, to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Russian ratification brings the number of countries who have ratified to the level required to bring the global agreement to protect the climate into law.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate change and development group, co2, government, kyoto protocol, press releases, russia, USA

Kyoto, the US, and business

Last edited 22 October 2004 at 8:00am
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22 October, 2004

Summary

The business community, and the world as a whole has a clear vested interest in one, clear, global system for protecting the climate, for agreeing emissions reduction targets, and for carbon trading and emissions reductions. Such a situation would create lucrative business opportunities in carbon trading and renewables technology. How long will the United States stay out of the game?

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Bush suppresses GM crop warnings

Last edited 19 October 2004 at 8:00am
Greenpeace activists intercept ship carrying contaminated maize to Mexico

Greenpeace activists intercept ship carrying contaminated maize to Mexico

Monsanto and the US government have been telling the world that genetically modified crops pose no contamination threat to natural indigenous species. But we have learned from a leaked report that NAFTA disagrees and is recommending steps to avoid a genetic threat to natural maize in Mexico.

Article tagged as: george bush, GM, GM contamination, GM maize, mexico, monsanto, NAFTA, USA

Esso tells staff to vote for oil - vote for Bush

Posted by bex — 11 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
The President of the Unites States: Esso

The President of the Unites States: Esso

There's nothing nastier than a wounded tiger. Esso is licking its wounds as Russia moves closer to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. But the world's number one environmental criminal is still fighting tooth and nail to deny the truth about climate change. The US government is increasingly isolated and Esso is out to ensure its workers keep it that way by voting for US politicians who oppose action against global warming.

Article tagged as: climate change, esso, george bush, junk science, ken cohen, kyoto protocol, lee raymond, oil, republican party, stop esso, USA

Pentagon predicts climate chaos

Posted by bex — 25 February 2004 at 9:00am - Comments
smokestack

Wasting energy - power station cooling towers are grossly inefficient

Article tagged as: climate change, development, drought, flooding, impacts, sea levels, stop esso, USA

Kyoto dead... Don't hold your breath!

Posted by bex — 5 January 2004 at 9:00am - Comments
international climate talks 2001

international climate talks 2001

The latest round of international discussions about global warming concluded in Milan, Italy on 12th December. Sadly, the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP9) again failed to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, prompting critics to write it off for the umpteenth time.

In the past ten years, it has been almost impossible to count the number of times that the Kyoto Protocol has been declared 'dead'.

Article tagged as: canada, climate change, COP, exxon, international policy, kyoto protocol, russia, USA

Stop Esso campaign spreads across the globe

Posted by bex — 10 October 2002 at 8:00am - Comments

Stop Esso campaign spreads across the globe

Esso garage closed by Greenpeace

In 2002, action against Esso got well underway in the USA, Europe and New Zealand, as Greenpeace activists around the world joined in the protest.

MAY 2002

United States: Greenpeace USA launches it's campaign against the richest company in the planet.

Canada: Greenpeace activists lock themselves to fuel pumps at Esso stations in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, while volunteers in Bush masks urge motorists not to buy Esso.

New Zealand: Greenpeace issues "A Decade of Dirty Tricks" report outlining how Esso has undermined international climate change policy.

Article tagged as: canada, climate change, direct actions, france, germany, ireland, luxembourg, new zealand, stop esso, USA

Stop Esso campaign spreads from Tyneside to Texas

Last edited 13 May 2002 at 8:00am
13 May, 2002

Esso Purfleet: villains

The Stop Esso campaign today launched an international week of action against the oil giant, which culminates on Saturday with protests outside more than 400 garages across the United Kingdom.

Stop Esso week was launched in response to the corporation's role in the sabotage of international action on global warming. Esso (ExxonMobil) has done more than any other company to block efforts to reverse climate change. It has run a ten year dirty tricks campaign against scientists and politicians who think we should reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Saturday May 18th will see Britain's biggest-ever global warming protest as thousand of people demonstrate outside hundreds of Esso garages, asking drivers to fill up elsewhere. To join an event at your local Stop Esso garage, visit www.stopesso.com or phone 0870 010 9510.

Article tagged as: climate change, junk science, press releases, protests, stop esso, USA

Bush administration threatens trade war with Europe over GM food.

Last edited 7 May 2002 at 8:00am
7 May, 2002

supermarket chickensAs the United States prepares to launch a trade war over European plans to label all GM food, a new MORI poll reveals that British consumers want European leaders like Tony Blair to stand up to George Bush and defend their right to know what they're eating.

Article tagged as: consumer, EU, george bush, GM, GM food, GM imports, labelling, press releases, USA, WTO

Fury as oil giant Esso pulls off UN coup

Last edited 19 April 2002 at 8:00am
19 April, 2002

Stop Esso campaign logo

The Stop Esso campaign today condemned oil giant Esso for the role it played in ousting Dr Bob Watson, the respected British-born head of the UN panel on climate change. 

Article tagged as: climate change, george bush, oil, press releases, stop esso, USA