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09 Mar 2012
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Japan
Residents at risk as radioactive contamination lingers in Fukushima - Greenpeace

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Fukushima, Japan, March 9, 2012 – Greenpeace today again criticised the Japanese Government’s incompetent handling of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, saying that its independent measurements show that one year on contamination remains a serious threat to the health of the people, and that the authorities are still failing to adequately protect them.

20 Feb 2012
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'Shadowlands' photographs highlight human cost of Fukushima nuclear disaster

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Amsterdam, February 20, 2012 – Greenpeace today launched 'Shadowlands', a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that a serious nuclear accident can happen everywhere there are reactors.

29 Aug 2011
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Japan
Greenpeace calls on new Japan PM to delay school start for Fukushima kids

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Tokyo, August 29, 2011 – Greenpeace today called on the Japan’s incoming Prime Minister to delay the September 1st opening of schools in Fukushima City, after a Greenpeace radiation monitoring team found dose rates exceeding international safety standards (1). The international environmental organisation also described the government’s announcement of new “basic decontamination plan” for the greater Fukushima area as deplorably late and inadequate.

22 Apr 2011
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Greenpeace condemns move to raise radiation exposure levels for Japanese children

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Tokyo, Japan, 22 April, 2011 – Greenpeace today called on the Japanese government to drop plans to raise the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 milliSievert per year (1) – the same level as nuclear power plant workers, and twenty times the internationally recognised annual allowable dose for adults.

The international environmental organisation has also asked the governments of nations including Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Canada, Greece, India, France and Italy (2), to raise the issue with Japan.

21 Apr 2011
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Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior to conduct radiation monitoring of sea life in Japan

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Tokyo, Japan, 21 April 2011 – Greenpeace today announced that its flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, has departed Taiwan for Japan to conduct contamination tests on seawater and marine life in the area surrounding the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

10 Apr 2011
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Greenpeace Fukushima radiation monitoring teams call for further evacuation

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Tokyo, Japan, 11 April 2011 – Following extended monitoring of the area outside the exclusion zone that surrounds the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex by two specialist radiation monitoring teams, Greenpeace is calling for the greater Fukushima area to be given official protective status (1) and for the evacuation of pregnant women and children from high risk areas in Fukushima City and Koriyama.

29 Mar 2011
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Japan: Greenpeace radiation experts present findings, announce further Fukushima contamination work

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Tokyo, 30 March 2011: A group of Greenpeace radiation experts (1), returning to Tokyo from an initial assessment of contamination from the crisis-striken Fukushima nuclear plant, announced plans to expand their contamination monitoring in the region, and called Japanese government to protect residents by widening the official evacuation zone.

The monitoring team found radiation levels high enough to require evacuation in several locations (2) to the northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, including Iitate

21 Mar 2011
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Food Security and Climate Change: The Answer is Biodiversity - A Review of Scientific Publications on Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture

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Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide. Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extreme weather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climate conditions will likely be most affected. A review of recent scientific literature underlines that the most effective strategy to adapt agriculture to climate change is to increase biodiversity. A mix of different crops and varieties in one field is a proven and highly reliable farming method to increase resilience to erratic weather changes.
21 Mar 2011
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G8 and the Food Crisis: The Real Solutions

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Millions of people around the world are suffering food shortages, unaffordable food prices and hunger, primarily due to industrial farming, bad harvests related to climate change, unjust terms of trade and the rush for biofuels.

There is no single solution to the crisis. The G8 leaders at the Toyako, Japan summit from 7-9 July, need to step up emergency assistance to the 850 million people who are suffering from hunger, and address the underlying causes of the current food crisis by:

- Increasing public investment in research
18 Dec 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Open letter to DRC Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism

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The Congolese constitution recognizes the crucial role of civil society organizations in contributing towards the education of its citizens and to development more broadly. However a proposed "Ministerial Decree Regulating the Registration of Non-Governmental Organizations and Environmental Associations" could open the way for restricting and undermining this important role of NGOs, abolishing constructive critique and alternative views emerging from civil society.

Historical evidence and experiences have

18 Dec 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
RD Congo : Lettre ouverte au Ministre de l'Environnement, Conservation de la Nature et Tourisme

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La constitution congolaise reconnait le rôle crucial des organisations de la société civile qui contribuent à l'éducation de ses citoyens et au développement de façon plus générale. Cependant, la proposition d'un « Arrêté ministériel relatif à l'enregistrement des organisations non gouvernementales et associations environnementales » ouvre la voie à la restriction et à l'affaiblissement du rôle important des ONG, abolissant les critiques constructives et les opinions alternatives émanant de la société civile.

Les expériences passées ont maintes fois

03 Dec 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
La Banque mondiale et le secteur forestier en République Démocratique du Congo : Feuille de vigne ?

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Michel Wormser
Directeur, Opérations et Stratégie, Région Afrique
Groupe Banque Mondiale
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 120433

Cher Monsieur,

Nous vous adressons cette lettre ouverte afin de solliciter des explications sur le rôle de la Banque mondiale dans la réforme du secteur forestier en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). En effet, nous redoutons que cette réforme - en conjonction avec des programmes REDD financés par la Banque - contribue à étendre et légitimer l'actuel modèle destructif d'exploitation des forêts, au lieu de promouvoir des

03 Dec 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
The World Bank and the forest sector in DR Congo: REDD future or greenwash?

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Michel Wormser
Director, Operations and Strategy, Africa Region
The World Bank Group
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 120433

Dear Mr. Wormser,

We are writing you today to seek clarification of the World Bank's role in the forest sector reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We are troubled by indications that the reform, in conjunction with Bank-sponsored REDD programs, could expand and legitimize the existing destructive logging model rather than promote viable alternatives that benefit the Congolese people and the global climate. If the DRC is

26 Nov 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
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Global Witness appelle les gouvernements à agir en s'appuyant sur les conclusions du rapport des Experts de l'ONU sur le commerce de minerais dans l'est du Congo

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Les États membres de l'ONU devraient prendre des mesures puissantes suite à de nouvelles informations sur les entreprises et individus qui font le commerce de minerais provenant de certaines régions de l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) contrôlées par des groupes armés, déclare aujourd'hui Global Witness.

Le dernier rapport du Groupe d'experts a été soumis au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU la semaine dernière puis divulgué officieusement à plusieurs agences de presse. Le rapport, qui doit officiellement

15 Nov 2009
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APEC "deal" on Copenhagen ignores the world's most vulnerable - Greenpeace

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Copenhagen, International - Greenpeace today slammed the so-called "deal" made at the APEC leaders meeting this morning, to essentially relegate the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit outcome to nothing but a political agreement: postponing decisions on the legally binding agreement the world needs into an unclear future date.

"Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen has become complicit in a US so-called 'deal' which would put Obama's political difficulties ahead of the survival of the world's most vulnerable countries,"

01 Nov 2009
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Agriculture at a Crossroads: Food for Survival

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Two formidable challenges seem to overarch agriculture and food production in this century: how to end hunger and how to keep global warming at a level that will allow humanity and the agroecosystems we depend upon to adapt in a noncatastrophic way. Two outstanding paradoxes mark these challenges: Modern agriculture is producing too much and still a billion people on this planet suffer from hunger, while many more are not nourished properly. At the same time, agricultural production and our food system accounts for more than 25% of global greenhouse
04 Mar 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Joint Statement by international NGOs on follow-up to the legal review of logging operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

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On the opening of a government workshop in Kinshasa on the post-conversion process concerning DRC forest titles, international non-governmental organisations Global Witness, Greenpeace and Rainforest Foundation urge international donors to prevent the reversal of forest sector reforms that aim to increase transparency and legality and ensure that the conclusions of the Inter-Ministerial Commission (IMC), responsible for the review and conversion of eligible logging titles, be enforced. At the very moment when the Congolese government and international
04 Mar 2009
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Déclaration concernant le suivi du processus juridique d'examen de l'exploitation du bois en RDC

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À l'occasion d'un atelier organisé à Kinshasa par le gouvernement sur le thème du processus de conversion des titres forestiers de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), les ONG internationales Global Witness, Greenpeace et Rainforest Foundation incitent urgemment les donateurs internationaux à empêcher la RDC de revenir sur les réformes du secteur forestier. Ces réformes visent en effet à introduire davantage de transparence et de légalité dans la filière, et à faire appliquer les conclusions de la Commission interministérielle (IMC) chargée de l'examen
15 Sep 2006
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Côte d'Ivoire
Deadly cargo dumped in the Ivory Coast

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International - Toxic waste from Europe openly dumped on the streets of an African capital city. Six people dead and thousands requiring medical treatment. The Ivory Coast cabinet resigns but still no one owns up to the dumping. How could this be allowed to happen?

The scandal of the toxic waste dumped in the Ivory Coast first came to light on September 6 when the first casualties where reported and protests broke out on the streets against the government, which was blamed for allowing the dumping.

There is no doubt that the wastes are

10 Aug 2006
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Lebanon
Rainbow Warrior completes joint mission with MSF to transport humanitarian supplies to Lebanon

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International - Over 75 tons of essential medical supplies have been safely transported to Lebanon via sea, following a joint operation between Greenpeace and Medecins Sans Frontieres, in which three voyages were made by the Rainbow Warrior between Larnaca in Cyprus and Beirut.
The humanitarian cargos consisted of essential relief equipment, including medical equipment, dialysis material, drugs, hygiene kits and fuel, which was transported on the three shuttle voyages, starting on 2 August and ending today at 0900 when the Rainbow Warrior arrived back in Larnaca.