Every year on the 5th of June, World Environment Day is celebrated throughout the world, raising awareness
and urging people to take positive environmental action to protect nature.
This collection of our
archive images gives you just a
glimpse of the beauty and wonders of the world around us, and shows us just how important it is to make
every day a World Environment Day. They also document some of the environmental problems around the world.
Tuesday 15th July, 2014. London - In response to the appointment of Liz Truss MP as Secretary of State for the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a Greenpeace spokesperson said :
"Liz
Truss has written extensively on the importance of science to education
and the economy. If she can bring that respect for evidence and rigour
into her new role, then we should see a more coherent approach to the
environment than the embarrassing shambles of the last few years. Common
sense and the laws of probability dictate that Liz Truss will be better
than Owen Paterson. She starts with a clean slate and we wish her
well."
On 22nd October BP plc announced it had agreed heads of terms to sell its 50% stake in TNK-BP - their partner in Russia for much the last troubled 15 years - to Rosneft, a company owned largely by the Russian State. BP's official announcement of the proposed deal focusses on the benefits of Rosneft's 2011 oil reserve additions and their sizeable dividend of 25%.
Greenpeace is deeply saddened by news of Professor Wangari Muta
Maathai's passing away. It is a sadness we are sharing with people right
across the African continent, and the world.
In response to Rachel's recent blog about taking in part in direct actions in such a male-orientated world as Greenpeace, Esther explains that you don't necessarily have to climb tall buildings to have an impact.
Some women have a touch of
the Lara Croft about them, but others - no matter how hard we try - would always
prefer a nice bit of cake and a day out shopping to climbing up chimneys. Not
that there is anything wrong with this – after all, there is more than one way
to save the planet.
This collection of our
archive images gives you just a
glimpse of the beauty and wonders of the world around us, and shows us just how important it is to make
every day a World Environment Day. They also document some of the environmental problems around the world.
