Greenpeace

Greenpeace

We are here to talk about Greenpeace and its campaigns.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity"[4] and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues.

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:

• Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.

• Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

• Protecting the world’s remaining ancient forests which are depended on by many animals, plants and people.

• Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

• Creating a toxin free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.

• Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

Some examples of this Greenpeace acts to protect and conserve the environment are:

1. Climate and energy

Greenpeace was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.[69]

Greenpeace considers global warming to be the greatest environmental problem facing the Earth.[68]

Greenpeace has formulated a global energy scenario, "Energy [R]evolution", where 80% of the world's total energy is produced with renewables, and the emissions of the energy sector are decreased by over 80% of the 1990 levels by 2050.

Using direct action, Greenpeace has protested several times against coal by occupying coal power plants and blocking coal shipments and mining operations.

2. “Go Beyond Oil"

Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations.

Greenpeace have launched the "Go Beyond Oil" campaign.[84] The campaign is focused on slowing, and eventually ending, the world's consumption of oil.

Much of the activities of the "Go Beyond Oil" campaign have been focused on drilling for oil in the Arctic and areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The "Go Beyond Oil" campaign also involves applying political pressure on the governments who allow oil exploration in their territories.

3. Forest campaign

Greenpeace has accused

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