Acknowledging that mass production of palm oil may be disastrous on biodiversity of forests, Greenpeace is actively campaigning against the production, urging the industries and the government to turn to other forms of energy resources.

A few, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace have participated in the environmental justice struggle by filing briefs or providing informational and organizational resources.

As deforestation contributes to global warming, Greenpeace has demanded that REDD ( Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ) should be included in the climate treaty following the Kyoto treaty.

Greenpeace has also supported the rejection of GM food from the US in famine-stricken Zambia as long as supplies of non-genetically engineered grain exist, stating that the US " should follow in the European Union's footsteps and allow aid recipients to choose their food aid, buying it locally if they wish.

" Concerning the decision of Zambia, Greenpeace has stated that, " it was obvious to us that if no non-GM aid was being offered then they should absolutely accept GM food aid.

Just as charitable organizations like the Red Cross would not be expected to attend to environmental issues or pay a cash dividend, and Greenpeace would not be expected to make a profit or succor the homeless, business should not be expected to take on concerns outside its core expertise, provided the business doesn't do obvious harm to people or the planet.

That is, those who would not force Greenpeace and the Salvation Army to generate a profit should not force businesses to take responsibilities outside their area of expertise.

In recent years, environmental organisations such as Greenpeace have argued that exploration for oil on the north west continental shelf slopes of Europe should be curtailed due to the possibility that is it damaging to the Lophelia reefs-conversely, Lophelia has recently been observed growing on the legs of oil installations.

and Greenpeace, which have questioned the viability of developing environmentally sustainable clean coal within an adequate time frame and budget – representing their perspective that funding of such projects should be sourced exclusively from within the coal industry.

Greenpeace also states that " there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organization all can be said to have separate lineages ".

Currently Greenpeace considers global warming to be the greatest environmental problem facing the Earth.

In 1994, Greenpeace published an anti-nuclear newspaper advert which included a claim that nuclear facilities Sellafield would kill 2, 000 people in the next 10 years, and an image of a hydrocephalus-affected child said to be a victim of nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan.

Adam Woolf from Greenpeace also stated that, " fifty years ago there were many experts who would be lined up and swear there was no link between smoking and bad health.

Greenpeace said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected.

In 1989 Greenpeace commissioned a replacement vessel, also named the Rainbow Warrior ( also referred as Rainbow Warrior II ), which was retired from service on the 16th of August 2011 to be replaced by the third Rainbow Warrior.

Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

Typical examples include Greenpeace sabotage of bulldozers, peace movement activists entering NATO bases by breaking fences, and Earth Liberation Front destruction of empty new homes that they deem to be imposing on the Arizona desert ecoregion.

* The European Energy Council and Greenpeace believes that the entire world can be powered by renewable energy by 2090.

Protests by Greenpeace to Dhamra Port construction is also alleged to be less on factual data and more on hype and DPCL's ( Dhamra Port Company Limited ) response to Greenpeace questions harbours on these facts.

Russell's departure from NBC causes Jerry and George's pilot to be rejected, and it is implied at the end of " The Pilot " that Russell dies at sea during a Greenpeace mission.

Greenpeace is using " open campaign " as part of its activism effort, with the willingness to be transparent down to the merest tactical details, although there may be some situations where some of these are hidden to provide some element of surprise.

As of April 2008 there are no high seas marine reserves, but Greenpeace is campaigning for the " doughnut holes " of the western pacific to be declared as marine reserves.

In November 2008, Greenpeace alleged that Loblaw was selling 14 out of 15 fish species on that organization's " redlist " of those considered to be the most destructively farmed, and staged protests at some Toronto-area locations.

In a press release, Greenpeace the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute noted that they had provided the government a legal opinion prepared by the Canadian Environmental Law Association, which concluded that the government's energy plan would be subject to the province's Environmental Assessment Act.

Greenpeace, the international environmental organisation, has a blog that allows greenwashing claims to be rated.

In 2011, Simonon spent time aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza incognito under the guise of " Paul the assistant cook " in response to Arctic oil drilling in Greenland by Cairn oil.

He has spent more than 30 years researching orcas ( or Killer whales ) in British Columbia, and is credited with increasing public awareness of whaling, through his involvement with Greenpeace.

* Page on the Basel Convention at Greenpeace

Greenpeace states its goal is to " ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity " and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues.

In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste.

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace has been published by Greenpeace in November 2009 on CD and is also available as mp3 download via the Amchitka concert website.

As Rex Weyler put it in his chronology, Greenpeace, in 1969, Irving and Dorothy Stowe's " quiet home on Courtenay Street would soon become a hub of monumental, global significance ".

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

The European Greenpeace paid the debt of the Canadian Greenpeace office and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.

In October 2007, six Greenpeace protesters were arrested for breaking in to the Kingsnorth power station, climbing the 200 metre smokestack, painting the name Gordon on the chimney, and causing an estimated £ 30, 000 damage.

As part of their stance on the subject of renewable energy, Greenpeace have launched the " Go Beyond Oil " campaign.

Greenpeace views the construction of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland as an example of the problems on building new nuclear power.

In 2011, a French court fined Électricité de France ( EDF ) € 1. 5m and jailed two senior employees for spying on Greenpeace, including hacking into Greenpeace's computer systems.

In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

Amnesty International said that the arrests and following raids on Greenpeace Japan office and homes of five of Greenpeace staff members were aimed at intimidating activists and non-governmental organizations.

Foundation donations are also rejected if the foundations attach unreasonable conditions, restrictions or constraints on Greenpeace activities or if the donation would compromise the independence and aims of Greenpeace.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.