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Without them we are nothing (We love our Vollies)
Sunday December 5 is International Volunteer Day – and a great opportunity to look back over the past year and recognise those who have helped us achieve so much by donating their time to Greenpeace.
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Sumatran tigers take over international paper awards
[youtube]https://youtu.be/uuxiEuBjUIM[/youtube] Greenpeace published a report in July showing how the last wild Sumatran tigers are threatened with extinction by the practices of Indonesia’s biggest pulp and paper producer, Asia Pulp and Paper, (APP). We thought that was reason enough to give APP a ‘Golden Chainsaw Award’ to mark the International Pulp and Paper Awards in…
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What drives me to jump? An activists motivation
Kristen McDonald is a trained Greenpeace climbing activist. Her latest pursuit was hanging a banner of ANZ’s HQ in Brisbane – urging the bank to take responsibility for its actions and stop polluting our world. Here in a two-part blog she talks about her motivations for taking action. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBZN-gH9g78[/youtube] What drives me to jump?’ they…
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Are the banks starting to walk away from coal?
On Friday it was revealed that for the first time, a bank had insisted on a confidentiality clause as part of a finance deal for a coal power station — so that its name could not be revealed for fear of reputational damage. Yesterday, Westpac announced in its annual sustainability report that they “will avoid…
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Kiribati : the frontline of Climate Change
This week 40 officials from around the world will fly to the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati to attend The Tarawa Climate Change Conference (TCCC) Blog post by Daniel Loo, Greenpeace Activist born in Kiribati Officially known as the Republic of Kiribati, it is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It…
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Greenpeace delegation at the CBD
Trying to save the planet can sometimes mean you have to spend hours in hot, stuffy meeting rooms listening to complex discussions that often go nowhere. © Kazuya Hokari / Greenpeace Blog from Nathalie Rey, Head of the Greenpeace delegation But this year’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in late October 2010 in Nagoya…
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A Golden Chainsaw for Papua New Guinea
Today I gave Greenpeace’s Golden Chainsaw award to the representative of the Government of PNG at talks on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestaion and Degradation). Her name is Federica Bietta and she is also representing PNG as co-chair on special REDD Partnership negotiations. Myself and the team, including a photographer got up early to make…
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Continued inaction is not an option at the CBD
Our Pacific Political Advisor Seni Nabou reports back from the first few days of meetings at the UN’s Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD), in Nagoya, Japan. As a Pacific Islander, attending these big world conferences can be overwhelming. The sheer size, grandeur, pomp, ceremony and alien language (diplo-speak) are enough to cower any sane individual…
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A chance to change history
Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, is in Indonesia for the Rainbow Warrior’s ‘Turning the Tide’ tour. I’ve arrived in Indonesia – a country at the frontier of deforestation and climate change. Indonesia is the planet’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, largely due to deforestation. Its indigenous communities are losing their homes and livelihoods.…
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What’s it like to be a Greenpeace photographer?
Ever wondered what it is like to take photographs for Greenpeace? Belinda Pratten is the photographer behind our upcoming exhibition in Sydney that documents Greenpeace’s occupation of two Queensland coal export terminals in 2009. She captured these direct actions as they unfolded, sometimes from an inflatable. She also documented life on board Greenpeace ship, MV…
