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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...
Unearthed was founded as Energy Desk in 2012 as an affiliate of the environmentalist organization Greenpeace. [2] In 2015, it hired an investigations unit and expanded its operations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Journalists from the BBC , The New York Times , and other publications were recruited.
London Greenpeace was an anarchist environmentalist activist collective that existed between 1972 and 2001. They were based in London, and came to international prominence when two of their activists refused to capitulate to McDonald's in the landmark libel case known as " McLibel ".
John Sauven, (born in Ealing, west London, on 6 September 1954) is a British environmentalist who was executive director of Greenpeace's UK division from 2008 to 2022, and previously responsible for Greenpeace's communications. Sauven started working in a temporary position for Greenpeace in 1991 while waiting for a place at teacher's training ...
Marta Hinestroza, a local lawyer who was granted political asylum in the UK after being told that her name had appeared on a paramilitary hitlist, first brought the case to the attention of Leigh Day, who negotiated an out-of-court settlement for a separate group of farmers in 2006. [10] In June 2006, BP and the farmers met for mediation in ...
Stephen Tindale (29 March 1963 – 1 July 2017) [1] was a British environmentalist who was the executive director of Greenpeace in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2005. [2] He was director of The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, [3] [4] co-founder of the organisation Climate Answers, associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform and co-author of Repowering Communities with Prashant Vaze.
Joss Garman (born 1985) is a British environmental and humanitarian campaigner who has worked as a campaign leader for Greenpeace UK, and as a director of The Syria Campaign. At the Institute for Public Policy Research he worked as associate director for energy, transport and climate change [ 1 ] before becoming adviser to the UK Shadow ...
Susi Newborn (1950 - 2023) was a New Zealand author, documentary film-maker, environmental activist, a founding director of Greenpeace UK and co-founder of Greenpeace International. She was also an executive director of the New Zealand non-for-profit group Women in Film and Television.