Transcript JorgeLuis - laurawarrior

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Greenpeace is a global campaigning organisation 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 and the animal, plants and
people that depend on them.
Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite
resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in
today's products and manufacturing.
Supporting sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically
responsible farming practices.
What we do: the issues we work on
worldwide
Stop climate change
The world's leaders meet at the end of 2009 in
Copenhagen to determine the fate of the climate.
They could set us on the path to a deep
emissions cuts or they could lock the planet into
catastrophic, irreversible climate change.
Protect ancient forests
Forest destruction produces about one fifth of global
greenhouse gas emissions, more than that
emitted from all the cars, planes, and trains in the
world.
Defending our Oceans
Seen from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle.
It is a planet on which the continents are dwarfed
by the oceans surrounding them and the
immensity of the marine realm.
Eliminate toxic chemicals
Toxic chemicals in our environment threaten our rivers
and lakes, our air, land, and oceans, and
ultimately ourselves and our future.
What we do: the issues we work
on worldwide
Demand Peace and Disarmament
Make no mistake; nuclear weapons are a problem
today. There are approximately 30,000 nuclear
weapons in the world.
End the nuclear age
Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to
fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it
is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to
humanity. The only solution is to halt the
expansion of all nuclear power, and for the
shutdown of existing plants.
Encourage sustainable trade
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) promotes free
trade for the gain of private interests, over and
above our health and the environment. It is fatally
flawed and is moving the world in the wrong
direction - away from peace, security and
sustainability.