62 Facts About Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International was founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States.

Greenpeace International is known for its direct actions and has been described as one of the most visible environmental organisations in the world.

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace International was published by Greenpeace International in November 2009 on CD and is available as an mp3 download via the Amchitka concert website.

Greenpeace International itself calls the protest voyage of 1971 as "the beginning".

Greenpeace International has stated that Watson was an influential early member, but not one of the founders of Greenpeace International.

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Greenpeace International claims that although Moore was a significant early member, he was not among the founders of Greenpeace International.

Greenpeace International activists disrupted the whaling by placing themselves between the harpoons and the whales, and footage of the protests spread across the world.

Greenpeace International evolved from a group of Canadian and American protesters into a less conservative group of environmentalists who were more reflective of the counterculture and hippie youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

The social and cultural background from which Greenpeace International emerged heralded a period of de-conditioning away from Old World antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior.

In 2015, Greenpeace International UK launched an investigative journalism publication called Unearthed.

Greenpeace consists of Greenpeace International based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and 26 regional offices operating in 55 countries.

The current interim director of Greenpeace International is Norma Torres and the current Chair of the Board is Ayesha Imam.

Since in the mid-1990s the number of supporters started to decrease, Greenpeace International pioneered the use of face-to-face fundraising where fundraisers actively seek new supporters at public places, subscribing them for a monthly direct debit donation.

Greenpeace International is an independent campaigning organisation, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and develop solutions for a green and peaceful future.

Greenpeace International was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.

Greenpeace International has focused on CFCs, because of both their global warming potential and their effect on the ozone layer.

Currently Greenpeace International considers global warming to be the greatest environmental problem facing the Earth.

Greenpeace International is critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block operations at the Athabasca oil sands in Canada.

In 1999 Greenpeace International Germany founded Greenpeace International Energy, a renewable electricity cooperative that supplied customers with fossil gas starting from 2011.

Greenpeace International is opposed to nuclear power because it views it as "dangerous, polluting, expensive and non-renewable".

Greenpeace International did not admit fault, stating that a Kazakhstan doctor had said that the child's condition was due to nuclear testing even though no nuclear weapons testing is performed in Sellafield.

Greenpeace International aims to protect intact primary forests from deforestation and degradation with the target of zero deforestation by 2020.

Greenpeace International signed an agreement which prevents them from developing plantations in areas where large amounts of carbon are locked up.

In 2018, Greenpeace International released an animated short starring a fictional orangutan named Rang-tan ahead of the World Orangutan Day.

In June 1995, Greenpeace International took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

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Greenpeace International said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected.

Greenpeace International replied that the tree had fallen down because the protective forest around it had been clearcut, and that they wanted to highlight the fate of old forests in general, not the fate of one particular tree.

Greenpeace International highlighted that Metsahallitus admitted the value of the forest afterwards as Metsahallitus currently refers to Koitajoki as a distinctive area because of its old growth forests.

Greenpeace International called Wilmar out for breaking their 2013 commitment to end deforestation, in which they promised to incorporate organic and sustainable ways to collect palm oil.

In 2007 Greenpeace International funded research by Gilles-Eric Seralini into MON 863 genetically engineered maize which concluded it caused health issues to the rats used in the study.

Also in 2007 Greenpeace International similarly publicised results of Arpad Pusztai which were retracted too.

Greenpeace International opposes the planned use of golden rice, a variety of Oryza sativa rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of pro-vitamin A in the edible parts of rice.

The alternative proposed by Greenpeace International is to discourage monocropping and to increase production of crops which are naturally nutrient-rich .

Greenpeace International argues that resources should be spent on programs that are already working and helping to relieve malnutrition.

In July 2011, Greenpeace International released its Dirty Laundry report accusing some of the world's top fashion and sportswear brands of releasing toxic waste into China's rivers.

In 2013, Greenpeace International launched the "Detox Fashion" campaign, which signed up some fashion brands to stop the discharge of toxic chemicals into rivers as a result of the production of their clothes.

For proving companies' policies and practices, Greenpeace International uses chemical testing of products, reports from industry observers, media reports and testing of consumer programs to check if they match with their actions.

Greenpeace International members were originally charged with piracy, then later downgraded to hooliganism, before being dropped altogether following the passage of an amnesty law by the Russian government.

In July 2014, Greenpeace International launched a global boycott campaign to persuade Lego to cease producing toys carrying the oil company Shell's logo in response to Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.

Greenpeace International had argued that Statoil's drilling plans posed a threat to Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary that is home to rare species including polar bears, because an oil spill would be nearly impossible to clean up in the Arctic because of the harsh conditions.

Norwegian police stated that Statoil asked Greenpeace International to stop preventing its activities, but Greenpeace International ignored the warning.

Greenpeace International has continued to criticize the big oil company for their "green wash, " arguing that Statoil hid the truth that it is doing the risky oil drilling by holding "Lego League" with Lego and distracting people's attention to the company's project, and it argues that Statoil has to alter its attitude toward environments.

Greenpeace International says exploratory and commercial mining of polymetallic nodules could wreak havoc on the world's oceans, which act as a carbon sink absorbing a quarter of the world's carbon emissions each year.

Greenpeace International maintains the "pro-exploitation" ISA is not the appropriate authority to regulate deep sea mining .

In 2019 Greenpeace activists protested outside the annual meeting of the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, calling for a global ocean treaty to ban deep sea mining in ocean sanctuaries.

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Since Greenpeace International was founded, seagoing ships have played a vital role in its campaigns.

In 1978, Greenpeace International launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a 40-metre, former fishing trawler named after the book Warriors of the Rainbow, which inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

In 1989 Greenpeace International commissioned a replacement Rainbow Warrior vessel, sometimes referred to as Rainbow Warrior II.

Lawsuits have been filed against Greenpeace International for lost profits, reputation damage and "sailormongering".

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace International, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

Greenpeace International activists have been targets of phone tapping, death threats, violence and even state terrorism in the case of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

Patrick Moore, an early Greenpeace International member, left the organization in 1986 when it, according to Moore, decided to support a universal ban on chlorine in drinking water.

Moore has argued that Greenpeace International today is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of his "fellow directors had any formal science education".

Greenpeace International argues that any realistic plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels or greenhouse gas emissions need increased use of nuclear energy.

However, the measurements had been made under duress during a protest occupation of the platform, since Shell had refused permission, and Greenpeace International activists had been under attack by water cannons and the like.

Greenpeace International has said "the growth in aviation is ruining our chances of stopping dangerous climate change".

In December 2014, Greenpeace International activists damaged rock related to the Nazca Lines in Peru while setting up a banner within the lines of one of the famed geoglyphs, and there were concerns that the harm might be irreparable.

Greenpeace International said the activists were "absolutely careful to protect the Nazca lines, " but this is contradicted by video and photographs showing the activists wearing conventional shoes while walking on the site.

Greenpeace International has apologized to the Peruvian people, but Loise Jamie Castillo, Peru's Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage called the apology "a joke", because Greenpeace International refused to identify the vandals or accept responsibility.

Critics have said that Greenpeace International only campaigned against whaling to gain economic donations from the US economy, and it had little to do with saving the environment or the lives of the whales.

Greenpeace International holds that whaling was only resumed by Norway after the IWC ban because of political election motives, and faces many explicit hurdles, including decreased demand in Japan and toxic chemical contamination.

In March 2021, nine Greenpeace International activists got inside Charles de Gaulle Airport by scaling a fence at the edge of the airport ramp and vandalized on one side of an Air France Boeing 777 with an extendable paint roller.