Greenpeace is an enviromental organization founded in the global Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada in 1971.Greenpeace is known to use direct action of nonviolent confrontation peacefully in conducting a campaign to stop nuclear testing in space and underground, as well as campaigns to stop whaling a large scale.
In the next year the focus of the organization leads to other environmental issues, such as the use of trawl fishing, global warming, and genetic engineering.
Greenpeace has national and regional offices in 41 countries around the world, all of which are associated with the center of Greenpeace International in Amsterdam.
This global organization receives funding through direct contributions from individuals are estimated to reach 2.8 million financial supporters, and also by funds from charitable foundations, but does not accept funding from governments or corporations.
Official Greanpeace mission statement states:
Greenpeace is an independent organization campaigning using anti-violent creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions for a future of peace and green. Greenpeace target is to ensure the ability of the earth for survival for all its diversity.
Greenpeace action in Sydney Opera House
in des 15 Five Greenpeace activists were charged with trespassing by the police in Sydney after scaling the city’s Opera House to hang a banner this morning have been released.The protesters had been detained this morning after climbing one of the Opera House’s sails to put up a 100-square- meter (1,071-square-foot) sign reading: “Stop the Politics, Climate Treaty Now,” environmental non-profit group Greenpeace said today in an e-mailed statement.
The penalties levied will be determined by the New South Wales Attorney General’s office, said a police spokesman, who declined to be identified.
Envoys from developing countries including China and India walked out of climate change talks in Copenhagen yesterday, complaining that richer nations weren’t doing enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The talks have now resumed.
“We are fed up of this critical issue being reduced to political pantomime, both in Australia and the world stage,” Greenpeace Australia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Linda Selvey said in a statement. “Climate change threatens all that Australians hold dear, from the Great Barrier Reef to the millions of homes on our coastline. We cannot afford to let this critical meeting end in more empty political statements.”
The banner was taken down shortly afterwards, the Australian Associated Press reported.
Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said in Copenhagen that all nations should sign a climate treaty.
“The U.S. is not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, we know that major developing economies are going to provide much of the growth in emissions over years to come,” Wong said. “We need all of these countries contributing to reductions in emissions.”
Scaling this massive structure was so impressive that local news have bestowed
-the title of 'ninja' on the activists- . Last week Canadian Member of Parliament Olivia Chow was wondering how 19 of activists managed to scale the West Block of the Canadian Parliament buildings.
and you also have to see the video "ninja" in the sydney opera house:
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