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| Eco News - Greenpeace International Press Releases |
| After a two-year delay, the initial results of a World Bank-financed legal review of logging contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been made public.[1] During a press conference on Monday Environment Minister Jose Endundo announced that 46 of the 156 logging contracts submitted for review are to be converted into legal concessions. No less than 33 of these titles were allocated after a moratorium on new logging titles introduced in May 2002. |
| After a two-year delay, the initial results of a World Bank-financed legal review of logging contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been made public.[1] During a press conference on Monday Environment Minister Jose Endundo announced that 46 of the 156 logging contracts submitted for review are to be converted into legal concessions. No less than 33 of these titles were allocated after a moratorium on new logging titles introduced in May 2002.
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| At 2am this morning, four Greenpeace activists boarded the Windsor Adventure, a coal cargo ship importing coal from Colombia into Spain. Others painted Quit Coal in English and Spanish on the ship. The action was in protest against the Spanish government for causing climate change by relying so heavily on coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels, for the country's energy supply.
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| Greenpeace today embarked on the Indonesian leg of its Forests for Climate ship tour, to shine the spotlight on the rampant destruction of the Paradise Forests - the last remaining ancient forests of Southeast Asia.
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| Greenpeace today launched an online database of fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and the companies that own them.
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| Five leading brands are making significant progress in greening their electronics products, Greenpeace’s latest Guide to Greener Electronics released today reveals (1).
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| Confirming Greenpeace's position on the crisis facing Mediterranean bluefin tuna, an independent review panel of international fisheries experts has branded the management of the fishery by government members of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) as an international disgrace in its conclusions, published this week.
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| British Government Ministers suffered a blow to their energy plans today as six Greenpeace UK volunteers were acquitted of criminal damage by a Crown Court jury in a case that centred on the contribution made to climate change by burning coal.
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| Greenpeace today applauded Steve Jobs' announcement that Apple's latest batch of revamped iPods - the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Classic - will now be free of both PVC and BFRs, along with an absence of mercury and the use of arsenic-free glass.
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| The Israeli police, guided by the navy, have arrested the
captain of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior, Daniel Rizzotti, following a peaceful direct action in which two activists painted “Quit Coal”, in English and Hebrew, on the hull of a ship unloading coal to the Ashkelon power plant. The activists along with another 12 crew and passengers, including a photographer and camera man were arrested earlier today.
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| A Greenpeace 'low-emissions convoy' will take to the streets of Brussels at noon today, showcasing car models that already meet the EU's emissions target of CO2 per km. The convoy of eight cars, which will stop on Place Luxembourg, outside the European Parliament, illustrates that low emission models are already available and cost-effective for a number of leading carmakers, refuting manufacturers' claims that they need more time to comply.
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