Presentation on Green Peace and Friends of Earth

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Greenpeace states its goal as to

"ensure the ability of the earth to

nurture life in all its diversity".

Greenpeace evolved from the peace movementand

anti-nuclear protests in Vancouver, British Columbia

in the early 1970's.



• In a few years Greenpeace spread to severalcountries and started to campaign on other

environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste.

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In the late 1970's the different regional Greenpeacegroups formed Greenpeace International to overseethe goals and operations of the regionalorganizations globally.

• In the following years Greenpeace evolved into one of the largest environmental organizations in the world.



Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning

organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour,to protect and conserve the environment and to promotepeace by:Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one

threat facing our planet: climate change.

Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructivefishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

Protecting the world’s remaining ancient forests which aredepended on by many animals, plants and people.

Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence

on finite resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardouschemicals in today's products and manufacturing.

Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging

socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.



• November 2009: Household chemical giant Clorox announces a phaseout of the use and transport of dangerous chlorine gas in the US, bowing to years of pressure on the industry from Greenpeace.

• October 2009: Apple clears the last hurdle to removing toxic PVC plastic

in its new Macbook and iMac, capping the "Green my Apple" campaign with a win and making Apple products safer, easier to recycle andcausing less pollution at the end of their life.

• October 2009: Plans to build the Kingsnorth coal power plant are

shelved, following a three-year campaign by Greenpeace to stop the firstnew coal-plant build in 20 years in the UK. A landmark courtcase in2008 acquitted six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage on thegrounds that their actions against the plant were justified to stop greater damage from climate change.



• August 2009: In a tremendous victory for ancient forests, Kimberly-

Clark, the company known for its popular brands like Kleenex, Scott, and

Cottonelle announces a policy that places it among the industry leaders

in sustainability. The announcement brings the five-year Greenpeace

Kleercut campaign to a successful completion.

• August 2009: After seven years of Greenpeace pressure, Finnish

government-owned logging company Metsähallitus agrees to leave the

tall trees of the old-growth forests of northern Lapland standing, and

with them, the livelihood of the Sámi people.

• April 2009: Germany announces that it will become the sixth EU country

to ban the cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) maize

MON810 - the only GE crop that can be commercially grown in the region.

• March 2009: The construction of an open-pit coal mine in Poland, where

Greenepace set up a Climate Rescue Station in December 2008, is

suspended, stopping around 50 million tonnes of CO2 fr om being released into the atmosphere.



• March 2009: The Great Bear Rainforest protection agreement comesinto force in Canada, capping one of Greenpeace's longest running

campaigns by protecting an area half the size of Switzerland fromlogging. The campaign was won with direct non-violent action on theground, consumer pressure, stockholder actions, and thousands of online activists worldwide. More

• February 2009: Following a six-month long Quit Coal campaign by Greenpeace, the Greek Minister of Development states that thegovernment is not considering coal or nuclear power as part of Greece'senergy future. Instead the Greek government will be rewriting its Long-

Term Energy Plan to exclude coal and promote renewable energy andenergy efficiency. More

• February 2009: Electronics giant Philips bows to pressure fromGreenpeace and consumers and becomes a leader in environmentally friendly take-back policies for electronic waste. An amibitous policy of global take-back exceeds legal requirements in many countries. More



• Friends of the Earth was founded in 1969 in the United

States by David Brower after his split with the Sierra

Club based in part on their reluctance to challenge theconstruction of nuclear power plants.

• It became an international network in 1971 with a

meeting of representatives from the U.S., Sweden, the

UK and France.

• Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) is an

international network of environmental organizations

in 77 countries• Friends of the Earth International are the world's

largest grassroots environmental network and they

campaign on today's most urgent environmental and

social issues.



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Friends of the Earth's mission is to be the human voice of the earth to bring abouta peaceful, just, equitable and sustainable society, respectful of present andfuture generations by inspiring change and promoting solutions.

• We strive to promote sustainable development and to ensure that human activitiesdo not harm other living creatures.

• Engage in vibrant campaigns, raise awareness, and mobilise people to participatein public decision making.

• Develop creative solutions based on sound knowledge and information, promoting alternatives to environmentally harmful behaviours.

• Lobby, mobilise and influence the policy community towards a more just andsustainable society.

• Strengthen FoE Malta through capacity building and to cooperate with other like-minded local and international organisations.



1. The current campaign priorities of Friends of the Earth

internationally are: – economic justice and resisting neoliberalism

– forests and biodiversity

– food sovereignty

– climate justice and energy

2. In addition to the priority campaign areas Friends of the Earth

International has a number of other campaign areas which are

active internationally. They include:

– desertification

– Antarctica

– water

– maritime

– mining and extractive industries

– nuclear power



3. All FoE International campaigns incorporate elements of

three core themes which are:

– protecting human and environmental rights

– protecting the planet's disappearing biodiversity – the repayment of ecological debt owed by rich countries to

those they have exploited.



• UN climate talks 2009: copenhagen

– As world leaders met in Copenhagen to discuss efforts totackle global warming, Friends of the Earth Internationalcalled on the rich industrialised countries, which havehistorically emitted the most greenhouse gases, to agree tourgent and dramatic cuts in their emissions starting NOW.

• FoEI submit grievance against roundtable onsustainable palm oil

– Friends of the Earth International have submitted agrievance against members of the roundtable on sustainablepalm oil (RSPO) who sit on the board of the Malaysian PalmOil Council and have repeatedly broken RSPO's code of conduct.

– "Members will not make any misleading or unsubstantiatedclaims about the production, procurement or use of sustainable palm oil."



• Economic justice - resisting neoliberalism

– Friends of the Earth International challenges the

influence of big corporations and questions neoliberal

policies and trade that do not take people’s needsinto account. Our campaigns aim to change the

course of the economy in a dynamic, creative and

constructive way. We share the inspiration and the

positive experiences with old and new, just and

sustainable development thinking and practices.



• www.greenpeace.org

• www.foei.org

• www.wikipedia.org

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