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Kyoto becomes law
Greenpeace activists, supporters, and volunteers around the world celebrated the coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol on 16 February with banners, wind turbines, actions against dirty power, and a shutdown of trading on the International Petroleum Exchange in London. After more than ten years of protracted - sometimes exhausting, often frustrating - negotiations, thirty-five industrialised countries along with the European Community are now legally bound to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions. Of the major industrial countries, only the United States and Australia refuse to support the agreement.
See how Greenpeaces offices marked the occasion Enter the Greenpeace UK SUV billboard contest Follow the Greenpeace New Zealand continuing action on top of a power plant Add your personal climate impact story to our growing collection |
Volume 5, Number 2
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| Whalevision ... the song contest
What's got more glitz, more glam, and more blubber than
the annual retro-disco-John Travolta-appreciation night? It's
Whalevision ... the song contest.
If you are creative, have a sense of humour, like music,
or are committed to defending the whales then click the Whalevision
link.
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| Président cheese
In January, Greenpeace, famed French anti-GMO activist
Jose Bove, and activist groups la Confédération Paysanne
and les Faucheurs Volontaires confronted the Golden Lion, a GE bulk
carrier loaded with 30 thousand tonnes of genetically modified soya
from Argentina. Like many other such shipments, this GE soya is used as
animal feed and so in the production of eggs, milk and other dairy
products sold in Europe and elsewhere.
One of the major producers of European dairy products is
Lactalis, the second largest milk company in France and the exporter of
dairy products, especially Président cheese, to 140 countries.
Support Greenpeace's fight against genetically engineered food and
protect your right to eat GE-free French cheese by writing to Lactalis
CEO Michel Leonard and tell him that you do not want GE products used
to feed the cows whose milk will make your cheese.
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| Mayors for Peace
If we can't rid the world of nuclear weapons nation by
nation, we'll do it town by town. That's the strategy behind the Mayors
for Peace project - an international effort which began with the mayor
of one city, Hiroshima, Japan, who in 1982 said "never again" to the
suffering his own town endured. Today, more than 700 mayors from 119
countries have joined Mayors for Peace in their call for an abolition
of nuclear weapons, and we're asking YOU to drive that number up. Has
YOUR mayor joined Mayors for Peace? |
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| Kleenex update
Greenpeace activists have sent 8200 letters to
Kimberly-Clark, asking the Kleenex producer to stop contributing to the
destruction of ancient forests in Canada, as well as 16 thousand
e-cards to their friends and colleagues about this campaign.
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