Paloma and Hernan talk about what the World People's Conference achieved and the closing ceremony in their final blog from Bolivia It has been a fascinating experience here at the World People’s Conference, which closed on Thursday, World Earth Day. In the end the numbers were even bigger than we first thought, over 35,000 people from 140 countries came together to exchange views and search... [weiterlesen]

Since Junichi and Toru were arrested in 2008 for exposing a scandal that rocked the Japanese whaling industry - over half a million calls for justice have been made in support of their actions. After Junichi and Toru were arrested - nearly 300,000 of you called for their immediate release and demanded that the official investigation, into the corruption they exposed, be re-opened. 85,000 of you even went so far as to... [weiterlesen]

It's been a long an intense week for the Tokyo Two in Japan. They are on trial and facing up to 10 years in jail for exposing a whaling scandal (read all about the scandal here). They are encouraged by all the supportive comments they have been getting - on facebook, twitter and our blogs. Junichi asked me to post this response from him. "I'm very happy and excited to receive all the warm messages from... [weiterlesen]

Jasper Teulings, general counsel at Greenpeace International, writes about the release of our 'Red Carpet Four'. He says the restriction of peaceful protest against a problem as pressing as climate change is a serious threat to democracy. An edited version of this article was also published in the UK's Guardian Weekly. Whether the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Summit has dealt a mortal blow to the process of international climate negotiations in their current form is... [weiterlesen]

Contamination of normal plants by GE (genetically engineered) plants is something we’ve been shouting about for years at Greenpeace. In 2006 we released a report that showed that the “accidental” release of GE rice by Bayer into the US rice supply led to global costs of between US$ 741 million and US$ 1.285 billion. Some of those costs are now coming home to roost. A jury in the US ruled... [weiterlesen]

Kumi Naidoo, the new Executive Director of Greenpeace International, writes: In several African languages we have the proverb “I am, because you are”. This means that your sense of being a human being is determined by the relationships you have with other people. This proverb has informed not only my thinking about human relationships, but also about nature and the environment. Unless we recognise that we must come together in communities, in rich and poor countries and... [weiterlesen]