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

The most famous of these organizations during this decade was Greenpeace, which did not hesitate to lead illegal actions in the name of environmental preservation.

A YouTube video by Greenpeace went viral and Nestlé announced a partnership with The Forest Trust to establish " responsible sourcing guidelines " and ensure that its products did not have a deforestation footprint.

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.

Environmental organisations including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, took the by-now renamed Department for Transport to the High Court, stating that the road was against the government's own environmental protection laws.

In February 2009, Greenpeace advised consumers not to use Charmin toilet paper stating that it does not use recycled paper and uses ECF bleaching.

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.

Drawing on her experiences as a resident doctor on the Greenpeace vessel under Capt.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

Although EDF claimed that a security firm had only been employed to monitor Greenpeace, the court disagreed, jailing the head and deputy head of EDF's nuclear security operation for three years each.

Metsähallitus accused Greenpeace of theft and said that the tree was from a normal forest and had been left standing because of its old age.

Greenpeace replied that the tree had fallen down because the protective forest around it had been clearcut, and that they wanted to highlight the fate of old forests in general, not the fate of one particular tree.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

In March 2006 The Wall Street Journal reported that PIW had been funded by ExxonMobil prior to PIW's request to investigate Greenpeace.

Greenpeace was fined US $ 7, 000 for damaging the reef and agreed to pay the fine saying they felt responsible for the damage, although Greenpeace stated that the Philippines government had given it outdated charts.

Along with the Rainbow Warriors, Greenpeace has had several other ships in its service: MV Sirius, MV Solo, MV Greenpeace, MV Arctic Sunrise and MV Esperanza, the last two being in service today.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

Moore has argued that Greenpeace today is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of his " fellow directors had any formal science education ".

A French journalist under the pen name Olivier Vermont wrote in his book La Face cachée de Greenpeace (" The Hidden Face of Greenpeace ") that he had joined Greenpeace France and had worked there as a secretary.

Animal protection magazine Animal People reported in March 1997 that Greenpeace France and Greenpeace International had sued Olivier Vermont and his publisher Albin Michel for issuing " defamatory statements, untruths, distortions of the facts and absurd allegations ".

Greenpeace also quotes Tongan parliamentarian Samiu K Vaipulu as saying at a workshop on the proposed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary in Samoa that Japan had linked whale votes to aid.

Outside of Spirou however, Franquin had a free rein, and used Gaston in promotional material for diverse organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International.

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 ".

In Philadelphia, in 2006, Greenpeace issued a press release that said " In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE ," The final report warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.

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.

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.

" Paul Watson, an early member of Greenpeace has said that Moore " uses his status as a so-called co-founder of Greenpeace to give credibility to his accusations.

In 2007, Barack Obama, then running for president, said that the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission had become " captive of the industries that it regulates " and a nuclear policy analyst at Greenpeace USA has called the agency approval process a " rubber stamp ".

Activists affiliated with Greenpeace were improperly put on a terrorist watch list, the report said.

After the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, on 10 July 1985, Prime Minister Fabius summoned journalists to his office on 22 September 1985 to read a 200 word statement in which he said: " The truth is cruel ," and acknowledged that " Agents of the French secret service sank this boat.

Greenpeace campaign director Chris Harris said only 4 per cent of palm oil came from sustainable sites.

Greenpeace tar sands campaigner Mike Hudema said Greenpeace wished Syncrude " was as diligent in cleaning up the environment as they are in persecuting the individuals that stand up for it.

* W80 internal drawings from Greenpeace archive said to come from a British nuclear weapons manual and to depict an actual weapon

While the most common criticism is that FSC is overly political, for example in Australia's forest Minister Abetz said " a limiting feature of the FSC is the involvement of environmental organisations, particularly WWF and Greenpeace.

One way to avoid the stigma of an " ism " was to evolve early anti-nuclear groups into the more scientific Green Parties, sprout new NGOs such as Greenpeace and Earth Action, and devoted groups to protecting global biodiversity and preventing global warming and climate change.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

Greenpeace used to list Moore among " founders and first members " of The Don't Make a Wave Committee but has later stated that while Moore was a significant early member, he was not a founder.

The ship was renamed Greenpeace for the protest after a term coined by activist Bill Darnell.

While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

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.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

At the same time the Canadian Greenpeace office was heavily in debt.

Greenpeace was one of the leading participants advocating early phase-out of ozone depleting substances in the Montreal Protocol.

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.

According to a Greenpeace spokesman, the memo was a joke that was accidentally released.

Greenpeace was awarded € 500, 000 in damages.

" 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.