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update fall 09

International Global Warming Actions: International Offices update fall 09


from Paris to Moscow Amsterdam, Netherlands Luxembourg,
International Luxembourg Managing Editor
Headquarters
Valleta, Malta Robyn Fuller
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mexico City, Mexico
Sydney, Australia Coordinating Editor & Staff Writer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sebastian Jannelli
Vienna, Austria Auckland, New Zealand
Brussels, Belgium Oslo, Norway Special Thanks to our Contributing Editors
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tim Aubry, Kacey Cox, Kellen Dunlap, Lisa Finaldi,
Port Moresby, Papua
New Guinea Robert Meyers, Billie Robertson, Mark Smith,
Toronto, Canada Andrew Thomaides and Tom Wetterer
Quezon City, Philippines
Santiago, Chile
Warsaw, Poland

©Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace

Paris, France– Greenpeace activists deploy an


Hong Kong, China
Prague, Czech Republic
Kinshasa, DR Congo
Lisbon, Portugal
Bucharest, Romania
Our Mission
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Eiffel Tower. The activists bear signs calling upon Copenhagen, Denmark campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct
Dakar, Senegal
President Sarkozy to be a leader against global Suva, Fiji
action and creative communication to expose global
Bratislava, Slovakia environmental problems and promote solutions that
warming at the G8 Summit.
Helsinki, Finland Honiara, Solomon are essential to a green and peaceful future. Please
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Jakarta, Indonesia On the cover: A polar bear walks along the edge of the ice
Bangkok, Thailand bridge in the Robeson channel, at 82.4' north, near the border
Tel Aviv, Israel Istanbul, Turkey between Greenland and Canada. Polar bears are facing
extinction as vast areas of their sea ice habitat disappear due
©Vadim Kantor/Greenpeace Rome, Italy London, UK to global warming. Just days after this photograph was taken,
the crew of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise watched in awe as
Moscow, Russia– The walls of the Kremlin are lit up Tokyo, Japan San Francisco, USA summer temperatures caused the Robeson ice bridge to
with a call to action for Presidents Barack Obama Beirut, Lebanon Washington D.C., USA
collapse into the sea. ©Nick Cobbing/ Greenpeace
and Dmitry Medvedev to save the climate. President
Obama was visiting the Kremlin just prior to the G8.
©Robert Meyers/Greenpeace

From the Executive Director 2 GLOBAL


In the early morning hours of
July 8, 2009, a team of 11
reduction in global warming pollution, based on
1990 levels, by the year 2020 – or else we can
WARMING
highly-trained Greenpeace expect changes that will constitute an entirely • Arctic Sunrise Expedition
activists set out to scale the different world than the one we currently live in.
face of Mount Rushmore. • Greenpeace Opposes
But rather than take the strongest position to com- New U.S. Global
Following an old trail and using existing anchors set bat global warming, we’re seeing a weak response.
up by the park service, the activists rappelled down Warming Bill
Todd Stern, President Obama’s Special Envoy for
the mountainside and unfurled a 2,300 square foot Climate Change, told an audience in March that • Save the Seals!
banner with a direct message to President Obama: “[r]educing [global warming pollution] 25-40%
“America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop below 1990 levels would be a good idea if it were
Global Warming”
It took the team over an hour to deploy the
enormous banner, as they battled severe wind
doable” and that the science-based targets are
“beyond the realm of the feasible.” This spring, the
U.S. House of Representatives passed a weak
10 FORESTS
conditions at dizzying heights. What these activists global warming bill, filled with giveaways for dirty • Cattle Giant Stops
accomplished was nothing short of monumental, polluters and far from the targets scientists say we the Slaughter
and I am proud to call each of them my friend and must reach.
colleague. Taking the path of least resistance and ignoring • The Prince’s
science in favor of what is “doable” is not the kind of Rainforests Project
The message on the Mount Rushmore banner was
leadership needed to address the biggest environ- Award
heard around the world. More than 800 news
outlets, blogs, and television broadcasts followed mental challenge of our lifetime. Greenpeace is
the story and global reaction to the event was calling upon President Obama to return to the
overwhelmingly positive. science-based targets he promised and become a
leader in the global struggle against global warming.
That very same week, Greenpeace actions took
place across the globe to coincide with the G8
Summit in Italy. At the base of Paris’s Eiffel Tower,
I promise you that Greenpeace will not back down.
As you read through this newsletter, whether we
are fighting global warming, combating tropical
12 OCEANS
on the walls of Moscow’s Kremlin, and suspended • Carting Away the Oceans
from the smokestacks of five coal-fired power rainforest destruction, or defending our oceans,
plants in Italy, Greenpeace called on the G8 please remember that it is your dedication that • Celebrities Say “No”
countries to stop playing politics and start taking serves as our inspiration and gives us the support
to Nobu
serious action to combat global warming. we need to take action.
Why go to such extreme efforts? Because the • Obama and the IWC
For the Earth,
world’s leaders are not doing what is needed to
stop global warming. The science is clear.
Industrialized countries must commit to a 40% Philip D. Radford
Arctic Sunrise Expedition
Global warming is the most urgent environmental crisis of our time. But there
are solutions. All we need now is the political willpower to take action. That’s
why Greenpeace is demanding U.S. climate leadership on the world stage while
bearing witness to global warming as it begins to impact the planet.

he Arctic Sunrise is on a voyage

T that will take her further north than any


Greenpeace ship has been before. The
small-but-sturdy, icebreaker-class research
ship has embarked on a historic three-month
expedition to bear witness to the impacts
global warming is having on the Arctic Circle.
Onboard the Arctic Sunrise is an international
crew of 24, hailing from Australia, Canada,
China, Cyprus, Denmark, India, Ireland, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Ukraine, the
United Kingdom, and the United States of
America. They include some of the world’s
leading polar explorers and climatologists.
Our team has been measuring sea ice levels,
which are expected to reach record-lows this
summer, and analyzing Arctic sea tempera-

2 All photos for this article ©Nick Cobbing/ Greenpeace unless otherwise credited
Josh M. London NOAA/AFSC

tures, which are expected to reach record-highs. beluga whales, and narwhals – the leg-
The Arctic Sunrise made history early on its endary sea unicorns of the Arctic Ocean.
journey when it became the first ship to Many Arctic species have already begun
navigate the full length of the Nares Strait in mid- to disappear as a direct result of global
June, a time of year when the strait is normally still warming’s impacts. Greenpeace campaign-
ice-logged and impassable. ers will be using the research collected on the
At the end of the Nares Strait stands the mammoth expedition as evidence that global warming is
Peterman glacier. It is one of the oldest and largest pushing these animals towards the
glaciers in the Arctic Circle – and it is on the verge of brink of extinction and that we will
collapse. Our expert ice climbers set up cameras suffer the same fate unless we
on the glacier and caught a section the size pass serious legislation to curb
of Manhattan splitting off and separating from the global warming emissions.
glacier.
The Greenpeace team has
also been documenting the
effects that the melting ice
and rising temperatures are
having on Arctic wildlife like
polar bears, ribbon seals,
Greenpeace Opposes New U.S. Global Warming Bill
n June 26th, the U.S. House of Representatives The Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel

O passed the controversial Waxman-Markey global


warming bill, also known as the American Clean
on Climate Change says that in order to avoid the
worst climate impacts, which include super-charged
hurricanes, disappearing coastlines, and wide-
Energy and Security Act (ACES), with a vote of 219 to 212.
The bill’s passage marked a major victory for indus- spread famine and disease, the U.S. and other
try lobbyists, but a major misstep in the United industrialized countries must cut their emissions by
States’ path toward a green and peaceful future. 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020. The Waxman-
Markey bill only calls for a 4% reduction in U.S.
In order to recruit undecided lawmakers, the bill’s
emissions by 2020.
authors, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA)
and Ed Markey (D-MA), reduced their goals for car- Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source
bon emission cuts and threw in some big favors for of global warming pollution in the U.S. But, instead
the coal industry. The outcome was a weak and inef- of phasing-out coal plants, the Waxman-Markey
fective global warming bill. bill will pave the way for a whole new generation
of coal-fired plants! To add insult to injury, billions
Despite his inaugural pledge to “return science to its
of taxpayer dollars will be spent on the dirty lie of
rightful place,” President Obama put the full support
“clean coal” – an untested and unproven technology
of his administration behind this bill, which ultimately
that pumps dangerous carbon emissions directly
ignores the scientific community’s most basic warn-
into the Earth instead of the atmosphere.
ings on global warming.

TAKE ACTION @ greenpeace.org/america-honors-leaders

Greenpeace activists scale a coal plant's 985 foot smokestack and hang a "Stop CO2" banner in the
Czech Republic. A month later, on the day of the G8 Summit in Italy, activists simultaneously infiltrated
five Italian coal plants and hung global warming messages down the side. ©Vaclav Vasku/Greenpeace
AMERICA HONORS LEADERS
“Now is not the time for complacency,” says
Greenpeace Campaigns Director Lisa
Finaldi. “Complacency leads to a false
sense of optimism, a mistaken willingness On July 8th, 11 Greenpeace activists were arrested for hanging a
to compromise for quick results, and a mis- 2,300 square foot banner on the face of Mount Rushmore. The
placed faith that politicians and corpora- banner issued a direct challenge to President Barack Obama:
tions will put the people and the planet “America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming.”
above their own self-interests. Yes, we are Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore action was part of a global day of
in urgent need of progress and of change – action that coincided with the G8 climate meetings.
but quick fixes and compromises are not
the right solutions. Doing what’s right, in
the context of global warming, means
doing it absolutely right.”
Unless the new climate bill is strengthened
in the Senate, the United States will enter
December’s UN Climate Convention in
Copenhagen without a strong commitment
to fight global warming.
Greenpeace is calling upon President
Obama to get us back to the
science-based targets he promised and
become a world leader in the battle against
global warming.
©Kate Davison/Greenpeace

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Save the Seals!
n 1976, Greenpeace launched the world’s first-ever between the hunters and their prey, peacefully preventing
I “Save the Seals” campaign. the slaughter. French bombshell Brigitte Bardot later
joined Greenpeace on the ice, bringing 45 international
A team of 15 activists traveled to the ice fields of
journalists and the world media’s spotlight with her.
Newfoundland, where hundreds of thousands of baby
harp seals were being torn from their mothers, smashed Because of Greenpeace’s campaign and the wave of
over the head with spiked clubs, and public support that followed, the Newfoundland hunt was
stripped of their snow white fur. reformed. New rules forbidding the slaughter of whitecoat
harp seal pups under two weeks old were put in
Just as they had done a
place and the commercial import of seal
year earlier during the
pelts was banned in Europe.
first “Save the
Slowly, harp seal popu-
Whales” campaign,
lations have risen
the Greenpeace
back to healthy
activists placed
levels.
themselves
directly

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© Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace
“Today, seals face a threat even more devastating than
the hunters’ clubs,” says Greenpeace Marine Projects
Manager Willem Beekman. Beekman was a crewmem-
ber on the Rainbow Warrior’s first seal campaign and
later served as captain of Greenpeace’s Sirius. “Global
warming is already pushing some seal species to the
brink of extinction.” © Michael Cameron/NOAA

Greenpeace scientists have identified the ribbon seal as


and silver on their bellies. Only at around four years old
one of the species most in danger of extinction due to glob-
does the typical dark fur and ribbon pattern begin to
al warming. Habitat loss and disappearing ice sheets have
appear on the seal’s body.
seriously imperiled ribbon seal populations. Scientists esti-
mate there are less than 250,000 animals left. In December 2008, the U.S. government boldly decided
that global warming will not endanger the sea ice critical
Adult ribbon seals are recognizable by their black fur, which
to the seals’ survival, and declined to list the ribbon seal
is wrapped with four white “ribbons”: one around the neck,
under the Endangered Species Act.
one around the tail, and one around each flipper.
Greenpeace has since launched a legal battle against the
Newborn ribbon
government to protect the ribbon seal under the full extent
seal pups are cov-
of the law.
ered in a downy
white fur, just like Last year, Greenpeace was successful in forcing the
harp seal pups. Bush administration to list the polar bear as “threatened”
After molting their and in need of protection under the Endangered Species
baby fur, their color Act. We won’t give up until we achieve at least the same
changes to blue- for the ribbon seal.
grey on their backs
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© Pierre Gleizes/Greenpeace
On the Frontline: Greenpea
was ten years old when I first Frontline activists stand on busy

“I heard about Greenpeace. An


activist came to my door talking
about saving the humpback
street corners in 14 cities across
the nation. They engage citizens
in discussion, recruit new
whales. I was so moved by the Greenpeace members, and turn
story of the whale hunt and excit- ordinary people into grassroots
ed that Greenpeace was saving activists – one individual at a time.
the whales, I ran upstairs, broke
Greenpeace’s Frontline teams
my piggy bank, and gave them all
have been critical in helping us
the money I had saved up to help
win some major victories for the
out the cause,” remembers 25-
planet. Last year alone, Frontline
year-old Michael Schwartz.
generated nearly 15,000 post-
Michael now serves as cards, over 500 phone calls, 150
Greenpeace’s Frontline City hand-written letters, over 250
Coordinator in San Jose, photo petitions, and recruited
California. Every day, Michael and nearly 75 small businesses to the
the team work to inspire a “Businesses for a Safe Climate”
whole new generation about petition – all as part of
Greenpeace’s campaigns to save Greenpeace’s campaign to pass
the whales, the forests, and the serious legislation to stop global
planet. warming.
All photos for this story © Michael Schwartz/Greenpeace unless otherwise credited
ce San Jose
This summer, the Greenpeace San Jose office “There are truly press-
stood out as a shining example of how a group ing issues confronting
©Anton Palczewski/Greenpeace
of passionate individuals can inspire others to us as a society and it
stand up and take action for the planet. San will take the mobilization of millions of
Jose experienced a record growth in recruit- concerned people, standing together, and
ment and an outpouring of support from the demanding in one voice that policy makers
local communities. address our concerns,” says San Jose’s Senior
City Coordinator, Joshua Wapner. “I can't think
of a more important time to be
good at what we do, and we truly
are very good at what we do.”
Joshua, Michael, and the whole
San Jose Frontline team are
well on their way to mobilizing
the numbers necessary to lead
the way toward a green and
peaceful future. We congratulate
the San Jose office, and all of
the Greenpeace Frontline
offices, for their great work.

©Gabe Smalley/Greenpeace
Cattle Giant Stops the Slaughter
The Earth’s forests are disappearing before our eyes. Not only does forest loss mean a loss of
wildlife, but tropical deforestation releases tons of greenhouse gases that contribute to global
warming. Greenpeace is calling for zero deforestation by 2015 in the world’s three remaining
tropical rainforests: the Amazon, the Congo, and the Paradise Forests.

n the wake of Greenpeace’s Greenpeace's investigative report

I “Slaughtering the Amazon” report, the


world’s fourth largest beef trader,
Marfrig, announced a moratorium on
exposed Marfrig’s role in this environ-
mental scandal, along with other
leading cattle companies like Bertin
buying cattle from farms that deforest and JBS.
the Amazon.
The Governor of the Brazilian Amazon
This groundbreaking move is a victory state of Mato Grosso, Blairo Maggi, is
for the Amazon rainforest and for our supporting Marfrig’s decision by mak-
planet’s climate. ing satellite data of the forest cover
available to companies to identify
Commercial cattle farming is responsi-
cattle farms engaged in deforestation.
ble for more destruction in the Amazon
than any other source. Rampant “This initiative is an important step
deforestation of tropical rainforests towards halting Amazonian destruction
accounts for nearly 20% of all global and the related greenhouse gas
warming emissions, making Brazil the emissions,” says Greenpeace Amazon
world’s fourth largest climate polluter. Campaign Director Paulo Adario. “In

©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
the absence of leadership
from President Lula, The Prince’s Rainforests Project Award
Marfrig and Governor
Maggi have taken their own hotography has played a key role
steps towards ending defor-
estation and pushing for
P throughout Greenpeace’s history
of bearing witness and taking action
global warming solutions.”
against environmental destruction.
Greenpeace is calling upon
Daniel Beltrá has now joined the
Brazil’s President Lula, and
ranks of legendary Greenpeace
all of the world’s Heads of
photographers like Rex Weyler and
State, to take personal
responsibility for solving ©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
Fernando Pereira.
the climate crisis. A new For nearly two decades, Beltrá’s cam- ©Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
international climate treaty eras have highlighted tropical deforestation in the
must be agreed upon at Amazon, the Congo, and the Paradise Forests. At this
this December’s UN year’s Sony World Photography Awards Gala, His
Climate Convention and Royal Highness The Prince of Wales presented Beltrá
that deal must include with The Prince’s Rainforests Project Award.
measures to protect tropi-
cal rainforests. This prestigious award was founded by Prince Charles
to draw attention to the global role played by
Greenpeace activists take direct rainforests in global warming. Beltrá has won a fully-
action against industrial cattle funded photographic expedition to the world’s three
farms that continue slashing and
burning the Amazon Rainforest. tropical rainforest regions.
© Greenpeace / Rodrigo BalÈia

FULL REPORT @ greenpeace.org/slaughtering-the-amazon 1 1


Carting Away the Oceans
A staggering 80% of all the life on Earth is found beneath the vast oceans’ waves.
Greenpeace is campaigning for a global network of marine reserves to
protect and defend 40% of the world’s oceans. Our campaigns put pressure on
governments and corporations to change their destructive practices and promote a
sustainable future for the blue planet.

ne year ago, the first edition of Greenpeace’s “Carting Away the

O Oceans” report shone the spotlight on 20 of the largest seafood


retailers in the U.S.A. The report gave an in-depth analysis on
the impacts unsustainable fishing is having on marine life and the role
seafood consumers can play in saving our oceans. Its purpose was to
raise awareness, shift demand trends, and acknowledge retailers who
commit to sourcing sustainable seafood.
In Greenpeace’s recently released third edition of “Carting Away the
Oceans,” we have already seen progress. Half of the supermarkets in
the report are now engaged in improving the sustainability of their
seafood. Several are even developing and implementing their own sus-
tainable seafood policies, while demonstrating their commitment to
improving practices by removing red lists species like the orange roughy.

FULL REPORT@ greenpeace.org/carting-away-the-oceans

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© Greenpeace/Alex Hofford
Supermarket Scorecard
But there are some retailers that have made little
to no effort to increase the sustainability of their
seafood operations. These companies have
willfully disregarded the health of our planet and
are continuing to wreak havoc on our ocean
ecosystems.
As has recently been made public in local and
national media, Greenpeace is now engaged in a
campaign directed at one of the seafood industry’s
most egregious offenders: Trader Joe’s.
For over 18 months, Greenpeace attempted
cooperative engagement with Trader Joe’s, but the
supermarket chain has refused to address the
impacts they are having on our oceans.
In fact, Trader Joe’s is the only national chain that has
yet to make any meaningful movement toward
improving their seafood policies. For more informa-
tion on how you can participate in Greenpeace’s
campaign, please visit traitorjoe.com.
Celebrities Say
That’s right. We’re talking to you, Robert DeNiro.
Despite intense pressure from Greenpeace, the two-time Academy
Award-winner has refused to remove endangered bluefin tuna from the

“No” To Nobu menus of his hugely successful Nobu restaurants. DeNiro co-owns the
high-end sushi chain with Master Chef Nobu Matsuhisa.
Nobu restaurants have been a favorite haunt of the rich and famous for
over a decade now. But Nobu’s audacious decision to continue selling the
last of a critically endangered species has left many of the restaurants’
loyal clientele with a bad taste in their mouths.
Over 30 celebrities, including Charlize Theron, Sienna Miller, Elle
Macpherson, Alicia Silverstone, Kate Goldsmith, Ted Danson, Woody
Harrelson, Stephen Fry, and Sting recently signed a petition vowing not to
patronize Nobu until it stops serving the near-extinct tuna. From their
statement:
“As customers and fans of Nobu we strongly feel that bluefin tuna
must be completely removed from your menu due to its perilous
position as an extremely endangered animal. Nobu is a
restaurant we all love, a world leader in sushi with a
fantastic reputation and enormous influence. If Nobu
took a definitive stand on this issue it could make a
critical difference.”

TAKE ACTION @ greenpeace.org/tuna


Tell the U.S. government to ban the international trade
of bluefin tuna and to list bluefin tuna in the Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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©Roger Grace/Greenpeace
To drive the point home, Greenpeace Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
activists have taken direct action at Nobu
Bluefin tuna are some of the most fascinating
locations in London, New York City, and and majestic fish in our oceans. But the pos-
Los Angeles. In addition to holding sibility that the species will be extinct within
demonstrations outside of the restau- the next four years is, unfortunately, a real one.
rants, activists have been passing out Overfishing has killed off at least 90% of the
mock Nobu menus that feature other bluefin population since the 1970’s. Did you
endangered-species dishes, like © Jiri Rezac know...
“Braised Polar Bear Liver” and “Rack of Greenpeace activists stage a demonstration
Mountain Gorilla Seasoned with outside of Nobu’s London location. They r Bluefin tuna average 6.5 feet in length,
carry life-sized tuna cut-outs and signs weigh nearly 800 pounds, and can live
Powdered Rhino Horn.” reading “Don’t Choose Tuna.”
for over 30 years.
Casson Trenor, Greenpeace Seafood Markets Director and author of
Sustainable Sushi, states, “Nobu is a trend-setting establishment that not only r With a flick of its tail, a bluefin tuna can
spans the globe, it wields incredible influence at the top of the sushi accelerate faster than a Porsche - going
restaurant food chain. Nobu has the potential to create a great deal of from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds flat.
positive change and become a leader in the seafood industry’s move toward r Arguably one of the oceans’ top predator
sustainability. Unfortunately, the owners of Nobu species, bluefin tuna are able to stun
have chosen to ignore the science and deny the their prey with the centrifugal force
reality of our oceans’ declining health. Until Nobu generated by their super speed before
decides to stop selling endangered bluefin tuna, attacking.
Greenpeace’s international campaign against the
restaurant chain and its owners will continue.” r Bluefin tuna are unique in that they are one
of the only warm-blooded fish in the sea.

Actor Jack Black speaks with a Greenpeace activist outside of r Restaurants like Nobu will pay upwards
Nobu and promises not to order any tuna in the restaurant.
Black told the activists to keep up the good work. of $100,000 for a single bluefin tuna at
market.
©Dennis Gill
Obama and the IWC
ntil recently, holdouts from the Bush administration were
U engaged in closed-door negotiations with Japanese officials
to expand the Japanese whaling program for the first time in
decades.
The new deal would have allowed Japan to increase its
whaling quota in coastal regions to include sperm whales,
Bryde's whales, and even humpback whales.
After Greenpeace supporters around the world sent an
overwhelming stream of letters and petitions to President ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace

Obama, the president agreed to appoint three new repre- shift the focus of the IWC from an International Whaling
sentatives to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commission, which was established to regulate commercial
and halt all negotiations with Japan. whaling, to an International Whale Commission, which
At this year’s annual IWC meeting, President Obama’s would promote the conservation and protection of whales.
newly appointed IWC representatives were successful in Unfortunately, little headway was made on the issue of
bringing the issue of global warming to the table and citing Japan’s “scientific” whaling program – which is really nothing
it as a serious threat to whales and dolphins. The U.S. more than a commercial whaling enterprise in disguise.
representatives’ resolution, entitled the “Consensus Greenpeace will continue to wage our campaign against
Resolution on Climate and Other Environmental Changes Japan’s whaling program, from the high seas of the
and Cetaceans,” was officially passed and calls upon world Southern Ocean to the high courts of international law. We
governments to incorporate climate change considerations won’t give up until the whales are left in peace and the IWC’s
into their existing whale conservation plans. ban on commercial whaling, which Greenpeace fought so
This marks an important first step in Greenpeace’s efforts to tirelessly to pass in 1986, is upheld.
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