summer update 2010

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From the Executive Director
Here at Greenpeace, we judge
ourselves by what we win for
you and our environment.
In the past few decades, we
have scored more victories for the planet than any
other independent environmental organization in the
world: from nuclear test ban treaties, to protections
for the last great rainforests, to securing the entire
Antarctic continent as a World Park, where all drilling
and mining is banned.
But, of all Greenpeace’s historic environmental
victories, the international ban on commercial whaling
is perhaps our most iconic. It took nearly a decade of
daring activism, grassroots organizing, and tireless
campaign work. In the end, it was all worth it: the
whaling moratorium has done wonders for the whales
– it has even helped bring several species back from
the brink of extinction.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the very first
Greenpeace campaign to save the whales and put
an end to commercial whaling. But, instead of joining
us in the celebration and fulfilling his campaign
promise to Greenpeace, President Obama and his
delegation at the International Whaling Commission
are supporting a proposal to overturn the moratorium
and reinstate commercial whaling around the world.
President Obama, here is what we have to say to that:
“Not on our watch.”
For a man who inspired so much hope in all of us,
and who promised the kind of change that would lead
to a green and peaceful future, Barack Obama has
2 GLOBAL
turned out to be a much different president than what
we imagined.
WARMING
President Obama has proposed building a new • The Climate Criminals
generation of nuclear power plants, the first in nearly
• Vermont’s Nuclear
40 years, putting millions of human lives in danger. Reaction
He has lifted a ban on offshore drilling, allowing the oil
industry to pillage parts of the East and Gulf Coasts,
and the coast of Alaska.
Now he threatens to destroy the last of the great
whales. How can we expect to count on the
president to tackle big picture issues like global
8 FORESTS
warming if he will not even work with us on an issue • The Orangutan’s
as simple as stopping the slaughter of our oceans’ Last Stand
most mysterious and majestic beings?
After many years of being the Earth’s most
courageous defender, Greenpeace knows that
vigilance must always follow victory. Just when we
thought the planet was in good hands, we must now
be more vigilant and on-guard of our environmental
victories than ever.
The reality of our current situation is unsettling but with
the support of our 3 million members worldwide, 12 OCEANS
Greenpeace is prepared to tackle it head on. As • Obama Supports
always, I thank you for your continued support. Commercial Whaling
For a Green and Peaceful Future, • Trader Joe’s
Sees The Light
• Bluefin Ban Fails
Philip D. Radford
Executive Director
WANTED: The Climate Criminals
These seven climate criminals are responsible for dangerous and destructive acts
against the Earth. They are some of the worst global warming polluters and science
deniers. They put profits over people. All seven are motivated by corporate greed and
a ravenous desire to build and exert their political power and influence. In fact, their
villainous actions to achieve these ends now contribute to at least 300,000 deaths a
year according to the Global Humanitarian Forum – the direct result of human-driven
global warming.

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 Vermont’s
Nuclear
Reaction
n February 24, 2010, the

O Vermont State Senate voted

26-4 to shut down the Vermont
Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
The historic decision came after a long
and tireless campaign by Greenpeace,
Vermont Public Interest Group, and the
courageous men and women of Vermont.
Although Vermont Yankee’s owners,
Entergy, lobbied hard to keep the nuclear
plant open, common sense prevailed.
The 40-year-old reactor has been
plagued by radioactive leaks, missing fuel
rods, a collapsing cooling tower, and
several misstatements in testimony by
© Andy Duback/Greenpeace
plant officials. Vermont Yankee is now set
6 to shut down in 2012.
Many see Vermont’s decision as a clear message
to President Obama in reaction to his pledge of
$8.3 billion in loan guarantees to fuel a “nuclear
renaissance.”
“The nuclear renaissance is dead on arrival,” said
Greenpeace Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio.
“We can retire old, decrepit, and leaking reactors
like Vermont Yankee and help usher in the energy
revolution that America needs. When Americans
have the choice about the kind of energy they want
in their communities, they don’t want nuclear.”
The nuclear industry is not at all happy with
Vermont’s decision. Their message back to the
backsides. Federal agents recently confirmed that
a suspected al Qaeda operative worked at six U.S.
nuclear sites. Former CIA official Charles F. Faddis
also warned that America’s 104 operating reactors
are dangerously vulnerable to terror attack.
But, none of this seems to phase the nuclear
industry or the Obama administration, which
both insist that taxpayers should finance more
nuclear energy. We must not allow President
Obama’s “nuclear renaissance” to destroy our
hopes of a green and peaceful future. Help us
build off the momentum of our Vermont victory
by taking action today! © Basil Tsimoyianis/Greenpeace

people of the state: “Drop dead.” Entergy has

already threatened to use their financial muscle to LEARN MORE: greenpeace.org/nuclear-shutdown
evict the current Senate and install a new one that
will approve an extension of their nuclear plant’s
operating license.
Nuclear power is nothing more than a dangerous
distraction from real clean energy solutions like
wind and solar. Radioactive pollution can cause
damage for generations and there is always the
potential of a major accident, like at Chernobyl or
Three Mile Island.
In this new age of terrorism, nuclear plants might
as well have bulls-eye targets painted on their
© Basil Tsimoyianis/Greenpeace
 The Orangutan’s
Last Stand
he orangutan is one of the most charismatic and well-

T loved species on our planet. It is also one of the most

endangered.
Native to the Paradise Forests of Indonesia, orangutans are
remarkably similar to humans in terms of anatomy, physiol-
ogy, and behavior. They are highly intelligent and have been
observed crafting tools for scratching, foraging, and
collecting honey.
Today, only around 7,000 Sumatran orangutans remain in the
wild, clinging to pockets of habitat. These great apes are
listed as “critically endangered” – the most severe listing for an
animal species. The orangutans’ sharp decline in recent
years is due largely to the destruction of their rainforest
habitat to make way for palm oil plantations.
Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of palm oil, which is
used in everything from chocolates and snack foods to soaps
and cosmetics. Experts predict that, unless serious action is
taken to stop deforestation for palm oil, orangutans could be
extinct in the wild within the next twenty years.
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© Natalie Behring-Chisholm/Greenpeace
A new investigative Greenpeace
report, “Caught Red Handed,”
reveals that Nestlé, the largest
food and drink company in the
world, is helping to drive defor-
estation for palm oil in the Para-
dise Forests. Nestlé uses palm
oil to make a wide array of its
products including Butterfinger,
Baby Ruth, PowerBar, Coffee
Mate, Nestlé Crunch
Crisp, and Maggi Soup
mixes. In the last three
years, Nestlé’s use of palm oil
has nearly doubled.
One of Nestlé’s major suppliers,
the giant Sinar Mas group, is
responsible for widespread de-
forestation and has an appalling
track record of environmental
and social practices. The
evidence collected in our
“Caught Red Handed” report
shows how Sinar Mas is not
only clearing rainforests, it is
also destroying Indonesia’s
© John Novis/Greenpeace
Orangutan
Facts
• In the Malay language, orang
© Natalie Behring-Chisholm/Greenpeace
means “person” and utan is derived from hutan, which
means “forest.” Thus, the orangutan’s name literally
means “person of the forest.”
• There are two species of orangutans: Sumatran and
Bornean. Having evolved on the islands of Sumatra and
Borneo, both species are now endangered.
• Orangutans are the largest arboreal animals on the
planet – they live their lives almost entirely in trees.
These fascinating orange apes travel by swinging from
tree branch to tree branch, avoiding the ground
wherever possible.
• Orangutans’ arms stretch out longer than their bodies,
sometimes over 7 feet from fingertip to fingertip.
• When male Borneo orangutans mature, they develop
large, prominent cheek pads covered with short, coarse
hair. These cheek pads are very attractive to other
orangutans – the bigger, the better.
• Next to humans, orangutans have the longest “childhood”
in the animal world. Orangutan young will nurse until they
are around six years old and will stay with their mothers
until they are around 13-16 years old.
• Orangutans are one of our closest biological relatives,
sharing 97% of the same DNA as humans.

carbon-rich peatlands. Burning and
draining these peatlands releases vast
amounts of greenhouse gases into the
air, making Indonesia the third largest
global warming polluter in the world.
Following the release of our ground-
breaking report, Greenpeace debuted a
shocking viral video that has created an
enormous buzz online. The video
features a man taking a big bite out of a
Nestlé chocolate. To his coworkers’
disgust, the Nestlé bar is actually a
chocolate-covered orangutan finger
that leaves blood stains all over
the man’s face.
© Christian Aslund/Greenpeace
Shamed and exposed, Nestlé had
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© Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
YouTube remove the video from their
website within hours of its release. This
triggered more public interest and
spread the video even further across
cyberspace. Within 24 hours, the video
was viewed by 100,000 people. In a few
weeks, it surpassed the 1 million view
mark. The company’s Facebook site
was crippled in the process, leading
advertising experts to suggest that
Nestlé should simply shut it down. This
sophisticated, high-profile online
campaigning stirred up a storm of media
coverage, sparking headlines in outlets
like The Wall Street Journal reading:
“Nestlé Takes a Beating on Social-
Media Sites.”
 © Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
Within seven hours of the report
release, video debut, and actions from
Europe to China, Nestlé agreed to
cancel their direct contract with Sinar
Mas. However, Nestlé continues to
source much larger amounts of palm oil
from Sinar Mas through “middleman”
traders like Cargill. Nestlé is simply
passing responsibility to their suppliers
on this issue – and that’s not good
enough. To end the firestorm of
controversy, Nestlé must stop buying
palm oil linked to forest destruction and
actively promote an end to deforesta-
tion for palm oil. The Greenpeace cam-
paign will continue until that happens.
© Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace © Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace
This is the orangutan’s last stand.
Unless we can affect some serious
changes, our children and grandchil-
dren will grow up in a world where we
have allowed one of mankind’s closest
relatives to be exterminated – for things
like junk food.
Greenpeace continues to pressure the
Indonesian government to enact an
immediate moratorium on rainforest
and peatland destruction. President
Obama can help by providing funding
for the necessary resources to bring
the destruction of the Paradise Forests
to zero by 2015. © Simon Lim/Greenpeace
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Obama Supports Commercial Whaling icture a Japanese whaling ship speeding through the

P Southern Ocean with a team of Greenpeace activists

hot on its tail. Suddenly, a mother whale and her calf
are spotted and the whaling ship’s harpooner takes aim.
The activists’ shouts are drowned out by the blasts of
exploding-tip harpoons being fired at the whales. With two
sickening thuds, both mother and baby are hit. The pair
desperately try to free themselves from the harpoon lines.
After a long and agonizing struggle, a gunman finally steps on
deck and puts the poor creatures out of their misery.
Helpless, the activists can do nothing but bear witness as the
whales’ lifeless bodies are dragged up the ship’s slipway,
leaving a long trail of blood behind them.
If the Obama administration gets its way at the next meeting
of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), this tragedy
will see itself played out over and over again.
For reasons unknown, President Obama’s hand-picked
representatives at the IWC are supporting a new proposal
that would not only overturn the international ban on com-
mercial whaling – which Greenpeace fought tirelessly to pass
© Australian Customs Service
in the 1980’s – it would legitimize Japan’s so-called “scien-
1 2 tific” slaughter in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
During the presidential race, then-Senator Obama gave this
response to a Greenpeace questionnaire dated March 16,
2008:
“As president, I will ensure that the U.S. provides
leadership in enforcing international wildlife protection
agreements, including strengthening the international
moratorium on commercial whaling. Allowing Japan to
continue commercial whaling is unacceptable.”
If President Obama is serious about his commitment to
protecting the whales, he must make sure that his delegation
at the IWC opposes any deal that would reinstate
commercial whaling. Instead, the U.S. should support a © Kate Davison/Greenpeace
proposal recently made by Australia, which would leave the
moratorium intact and finally put an end to Japan’s bogus
“science” in the Southern Ocean. Greenpeace paid with
our blood, sweat, and tears for the commercial whaling
moratorium. We will not sit idly by and allow the Obama
administration to overturn decades of hard work with one
clumsy pen stroke.
In light of this unexpected and deeply disturbing news,
Greenpeace is gearing up for one of the biggest
battles that the war against whaling has ever seen. This is
an “all hands on deck” moment, to say the very least.

TAKE ACTION: greenpeace.org/obamaspromise © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace

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 Trader Joe’s
Sees The Light
fter months of publicly campaigning against

A Trader Joe’s, Greenpeace has finally convinced

the supermarket chain to adopt and implement
sustainable seafood purchasing policies throughout all
of their stores.
Greenpeace applauds Trader Joe’s for agreeing to
work towards sustainable seafood policies that will help
save our planet’s oceans and put an end to destructive
fishing practices. Prior to this announcement, Trader
Joe's was the worst ranked national chain in
Greenpeace’s “Carting Away The Oceans” report,
which analyzed the sustainability of America’s 20 lead-
ing grocery stores.
Greenpeace turned up the heat on Trader Joe’s with a
mock website (www.traitorjoe.com), relentless phone
calls from supporters, thoughtful karaoke songs from
shoppers, and in-store demonstrations and questions
to store managers from activists across the country.

All photos © Kim White/Greenpeace

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Trader Joe’s has now removed several unsustainable • Provide accurate information on all seafood labels,
products from its shelves, including the conservation- including species’ Latin names, origin and catch or
dependent orange roughy. Furthermore, Trader Joe’s has production method.
announced that they will: • Use their buying power to leverage change in the
• Offer only sustainable seafood in their stores by seafood industry.
December 31, 2012. Greenpeace is hopeful that Trader Joe’s will continue imple-
• Work with third-party, science-based organizations to menting a comprehensive sustainable seafood purchasing
establish definitions and parameters for addressing policy and we will remain vigilant to ensure the supermarket
customer concerns about overfishing, destructive catch or chain stays faithful to its promise long into the future.
production methods, and the importance of marine reserves.
• Remove “red-listed” seafood from their shelves. Trader LEARN MORE: greenpeace.org/cartingawaytheoceans4
Joe’s stopped selling Chilean sea bass in 2005, orange
roughy in July of 2009, and red snapper in March of 2010.
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 Bluefin Ban Fails
reenpeace condemns the failure of governments CITES to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna spells disaster for its

G meeting at the Convention of International Trade in

Endangered Species (CITES) to agree on any
measures to protect the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna.
future and sets the species on a pathway to extinction. […]
It is a known goal by Japan. By pushing for a few more
years of this luxury product it has put the future of bluefin –
Monaco’s proposal to ban international trade of this and the future of its own supply – at serious risk.”
critically endangered “jaguar of the sea” was rejected by The possibility that the bluefin tuna will be functionally
the international community, despite support from the U.S. extinct within the next four years is now, unfortunately, a real
government. The vote followed several days of aggressive one. Overfishing has already killed off at least 90% of the
lobbying from the Japanese, who take close to 80% of the bluefin population since the 1970’s.
Atlantic bluefin catch for use as sushi. Greenpeace will continue to lobby the world community to
Greenpeace International oceans campaigner Oliver ban bluefin at both the national and international level.
Knowles said: “The abject failure of governments here at background photo © Roger Grace/Greenpeace

Bluefin Tuna Facts

■ Bluefin tuna average ■ With a flick of its tail, ■ Arguably one of the ■ Bluefin tuna are ■ Restaurants like
6.5 feet in length, weigh a bluefin tuna can oceans’ top predator unique in that they are celebrity hotspot
nearly 800 pounds, and accelerate faster than species, bluefin tuna are one of the only warm- “Nobu” will pay
can live for over 30 a Porsche – going able to stun their prey blooded fish in the sea. upwards of $100,000
years. from 0 to 60 mph in 3 with the centrifugal force for a single bluefin tuna
seconds flat. generated by their super at market.
speed before attacking.
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© Gavin Newman/Greenpeace
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