Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a global environmental organization that operates in more than 40 countries, with its main headquarters located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1971 by environmental activists Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, who were originally from Canada and the US, Greenpeace aims to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity." The organization focuses on critical global issues, including climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and nuclear safety. To achieve its objectives, Greenpeace employs strategies such as direct action, lobbying, research, and ecotage. Unlike many organizations, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments, corporations, or political entities; instead, it is supported by 2.9 million individual donors and foundation grants. The organization holds general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is a founding member of the INGO Accountability Charter, which promotes transparency and accountability among non-governmental organizations.

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Greenpeace comment on opening of UN Ocean Conference

1 week ago | greenpeace.org | Tanya Brooks

WASHINGTON, DC (June 6, 2025)–World leaders will gather in Nice, France, from June 9 to 13, for the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC)–the most significant political moment on ocean protection since the adoption of the Global Ocean Treaty in 2023.
A defining moment in history: 40 years ago, the Marshall Islands fought to protect their future and defied the US

1 week ago | greenpeace.org | Nick Young

In May 1985, Greenpeace took on a mission unlike anything they had done before – to mass relocate the people of Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, whose ancestral home was no longer safe as a result of the US government’s nuclear testing in the region. About 350 people were relocated, including livestock and 100 metric tons of building material, to Mejatto, another island about 180 km away.
France spent €90,000 to discredit the impact of Pacific nuclear testing – Greenpeace response - Greenpeace Aotearoa

1 week ago | greenpeace.org | Nick Young

New documents obtained by investigative outlet Disclose suggest that France spent €90,000 to discredit research into the impacts of its nuclear testing in the Pacific. In response, Shiva Gounden, Head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, says: “This act by France is not just a denial of truth — it is an insult to generations who continue to live with the radioactive legacy of these experiments.
A Rock-Solid Stand for the Ocean: Greenpeace France Blocks Bottom Trawling

1 week ago | greenpeace.org | Emma Page

Last month, Greenpeace France took a stand and, in a valiant act of environmental activism, took matters into their own hands. At sunrise on Wednesday, May 21, activists aboard the Arctic Sunrise ship dropped 15 large limestone boulders into the Mediterranean Sea, targeting a protected area off the coast of Occitania known as the Gulf of Lion Marine Park. Carefully placed in a grid pattern on the ocean floor, each rock weighs between one and two tons.
Antarctica’s sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it - Greenpeace Aotearoa

2 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Nick Young

Antarctica is the world’s great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth’s climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometres of sea ice around the continent. Our research shows changes to this annual freeze cycle in McMurdo Sound can lead to shifts in the diversity of algal communities that live within the sea ice. At the start of the southern winter, as sea water begins to freeze, it expels salt and forms heavy and very cold brine.
Greenpeace Canada reaction to potential bypass of federal environmental laws

2 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Laura Kenyon

Toronto – In response to news that the federal government is considering bypassing federal environmental laws to fast-track projects it considers to be in the national interest, Greenpeace Canada’s Nature & Biodiversity campaigner Salomé Sané said: “Fast-tracking projects that disregard Indigenous rights and environmental regulations isn’t going to make us better prepared for the rapidly changing global economy and climate.
Energy Transfer lawsuit: still no evidence, still no final judgment

2 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Madison Carter

MANDAN, N.D. (May 27, 2025) – In a second post-trial hearing, District Court Judge Gion decided to withhold any rulings as Greenpeace defendants again met Energy Transfer plaintiffs in a North Dakota state court. It is the same court where a jury in March found Greenpeace Inc., Greenpeace Fund, and Greenpeace International liable for a perverse amount of damages of more than $660 million.
ACT’s regulatory standards bill threatens to pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts - Greenpeace Aotearoa

3 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Nick Young

With the ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill now before the Finance and Expenditure Committee, having passed its first reading in parliament last week, parallels with the now abandoned Treaty Principles Bill have already been drawn. Lawyer Tania Waikato, who led an urgent Waitangi Tribunal claim before the bill was introduced, has dubbed it “the Treaty Principles Bill 2.0”. The tribunal itself recommended the government “immediately halt [its] advancement”.
Greenpeace USA slams PepsiCo for ditching reuse target - Greenpeace - Greenpeace

3 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Tanya Brooks

WASHINGTON, DC (May 22, 2025) – In response to PepsiCo’s announcement that it will abandon its goal to deliver 20% of its beverages in reusable containers by 2030, Greenpeace USA Senior Oceans Campaigner Lisa Ramsden, said: “PepsiCo is the latest corporate polluter to abandon its reuse targets, a move that will undoubtedly force more plastic pollution into our environment and burden our bodies with more toxic microplastics.
UN Ocean Conference draft declaration fails to address the ocean crisis

3 weeks ago | greenpeace.org | Tanya Brooks

Washington, D.C. (May 22, 2025)—Greenpeace International was able to view the third and reportedly final draft of the political declaration for the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France.