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Greenpeace activists board ship carrying Australian coal
2013-04-24 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Six activists from Greenpeace have boarded a coal ship leaving Australian waters in a direct action aimed at curbing coal exports. The activists, from several different countries, boarded the Korean-owned MV Meister at 7am on Wednesday. The ship is carrying thermal coal loaded from Abbot Point in Queensland. Speaking to the Guardian from on board the ship, 34-year-old Greenpeace activist Emma Giles said: "We've taken the action today because Australia is on track to almost double its coal exports...
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Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets
2013-04-16 04:33:06| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
SITUATION: If youre a global automaker like Volkswagen and theres an environmental activist group that goes after you, youd prefer it not to be Greenpeace Its one thing to get an angry letter or see a critical media announcement about your failure to reduce carbon emissions With Greenpeace, you never know what theyre going to do just ask fishing boat owners in Japan or Korea Or Shell, which last year saw shutdown at 74 of its petrol stations in the UK by Greenpeace activists dressed up as emergency workers closing off the facilities SIGNIFICANCE: Volkswagen has come to terms with its own CO2 reduction targets for its fleet in alignment with Greenpeace and the European Union The automaker has been tweaked by Greenpeace, through the activist groups videos lampooning Volkswagens Star Wars themed popular commercial But both sides have made nice with chief executives meeting recently and wrapping up about two years of conversations some of them very heated Read all about Volkswagens thinking on bypassing Toyota and becoming the greenest global automakerThe Article Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Volkswagen Settles with Greenpeace and Sets CO2 Targets
2013-04-11 10:00:14| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The Article Volkswagen Settles with Greenpeace and Sets CO2 Targets appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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VWs Winterkorn underscores VWs CO2 targets with Greenpeace, with caveat about customers
2013-03-25 19:30:16| Green Car Congress
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Every day is forest day at Greenpeace
2013-03-21 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Today I will celebrate. And my friends and colleagues in the Greenpeace Forest campaign will too. But this is nothing different for us. We do this every day. But maybe, just maybe, the focus that a day like today brings may help our work to protect the world's remaining forests. Today, 21st March, is the International Day of Forests. This date was agreed by the UN General Assembly in November 2012 so that every year there would be one day set aside to "celebrate and raise awareness" of forests....
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