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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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NSW Labor plans for more dirty coal power stations put to the test
Press release – 15 November, 2010Land and Environment Court Papers will be filed today in the Land and Environment Court by the Hunter Community Environment Centre (HCEC) that will challenge the State government’s decision to rehabilitate one of the State’s oldest and dirtiest power stations – Munmorah.If Munmorah is allowed to be rehabilitated, rather than…
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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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Australia’s food security and economy assailed by dual threats
Press release – 28 October, 2010Two serious threats to Australia’s food security and economy are today highlighted with the looming threat to Australia’s largest export crop coinciding with the news Australia is now a net importer of food.Australia is poised to become the first country in the world to allow genetically engineered wheat crops, following…
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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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Greenpeace does a bank job
Press release – 21 October, 2010This morning at 8.15 am (EST) Greenpeace activists scaled ANZ’s Brisbane HQ at 324 Queen Street, hanging a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo: ‘ANZ: We pollute your world’”Despite boasting to customers of its plans to be carbon neutral, ANZ is the biggest financer of pollution in Australia,”…
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Greenpeace urges dirtiest bank to come clean
Press release – 21 October, 2010Greenpeace activists have ended today’s protest at ANZ after the company agreed to high level discussions on the future financing of polluting power.The climbers had been in place since 8.15 am (EST) this morning, having scaled ANZ’s Queensland HQ to hang a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo:…
