2002 [Daniel, 14, Santiago, Chile] vision fr movemen n t oceans ancient forests climate toxics nuclear power and disarmament genetic engineering [featuring year 2001 financial statements] 2001financial year [featuring [Bill Nandris, one of the‘Star Wars 17’] 1 greenpeace 2002 brunt of environmental degradation of environmental brunt It is the poor that normally bear the It is the poor that normally “ shatter spirit In Brazil, with great The situation is serious, but Summit’s innovative economics and the actions fanfare, governments set not hopeless. On the plus Agenda 21 – millions of of states are pulling in a out on the ‘road to side, the past decade has people around the world quite different direction. sustainability’. But most of seen the adoption of are tackling local Individuals, businesses and them have now ground to a significant environmental environmental issues with countries have a choice. halt, mired in inaction and legislation at national and dedication, energy and no We can have limitless cars As I write this, final preparations are underway for the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. in Summit Earth the for underway are this, preparations write final I As a return to ‘business as international levels and an small measure of expertise. and computers, plastics usual’.The road from Rio is increasing ecological In schools, children from and air-freighted knee-deep in shattered awareness among policy virtually every country are vegetables, but in exchange promises, not least the makers and scientists. learning about the we get Bhopal and craven caving-in by the But perhaps most environment and its Chernobyl, species USA to the interests of the significant of all is the importance for their future. extinction and climate How will this gathering compare with the one held ten years ago in Rio de Janeiro? de Rio in ago years ten held one the with compare gathering this will How big energy companies and massive engagement in But this impressive local change. Fish for lunch? its subsequent environmental issues at a progress is not matched at Let’s empty the whole sea. abandonment of the Kyoto local level. Since Rio – and higher levels. Here, global Chair to sit on? Fell the Protocol on climate change. encouraged by the Earth reenpeace 2002 g 2 Hirono head” growth peace contact life hope sun justice ko unity enrapee elazquez Yepi xpression” “they showed no “they showed e 14 Zubeda Bi us” “please save 16 Paulo Adario “a price on my 22 Inoqusiaq Piloq “regarded as not quite human” 8 Miguel Ramírez want to “we clean the fields” 12 P Noparumpa “double standards are unacceptable” 18 Remi Parmentier “someone made it to Doha” 10 Yu 20 Camila Fernanda V “the forest life” stands for ed promises” businesses. No electricity What is missing is the to read or study by, to political will to take up the pump water, to work farm challenge. machinery, to cook and After 11 September the wash by or play under, United States found $40 never mind the luxury of billion to finance a ‘war on internet access. Meanwhile, terrorism’ in just hours. Yet richer societies are for the past 30 years, the powered through fossil-fuel USA– the richest, most abuse, plunging the world’s wasteful nation on earth – climate into chaos. has rejected international At Johannesburg, environmental protection Greenpeace is calling on as “too costly”. heads of state to show America must reverse its global leadership to give opposition to international those two billion access – environmental laws and within ten years – to focus its industrial affordable, clean and strength on giving the renewable energy.The Amazon. A spin in the the 20% who consume intervene in the free- world renewable energy. technology is already 4-wheel drive? Let’s melt 80% of the resources – market. We need ecological It is time to stop acting available – wind, solar, the Greenland ice sheet. and big business which intervention: a market unilaterally and begin hydro, biomass and hot increasingly finances system that works in the co-operating with the other The public increasingly rocks power could replace ‘democratic’ elections. public interest, which nations of the world. understands the the dirty energy of the last shows that people and incompatibility of unbridled Business-dominated century.The money is The commitment of people nature matter. capitalism and a better governments are destroying already available – but is to a better environment quality of life for all. It is our planet and it is time Consider energy and what currently bound up in gives us hope. It is up to looking to governments to for people to insist that could be done with existing subsidies to the oil, coal, governments and business take action. capitalism is made fairer technology... gas and nuclear industries to follow the people’s lead. and more globally totalling $250-300 billion But their record is not Two billion of the world’s constructive. We disagree a year. good.They meet, they poorest people have no with the conventional promise, they renege. And access to basic energy mantra that says globally who calls the services for lighting, politicians must not shots? It is the wealthy – cooking, heating and small reenpeace 2002 g 3 “Your Honour, with all due respect ... I reckon the prosecution has got the wrong Texan.” [Texan ‘Star Wars 17’ defendant, Kelly Osborne addresses the judge in a Californian court] greenpeace organisesand thepublic promotion campaigns of renewable for the protection energies, of for oceans the elimination and ancient of forests, toxic chemicals, for the phasing-out for nuclear of disarmament fossil fuels Since the 1970s, plutonium april 2002 A touring and an end to nuclear contamination, and against the release ofhas genetically been extracted modifiedfrom spent organismsexhibition ofinto photographs nature. from nuclear fuel by the civil the Russian nuclear facility at nuclear industry, mainly in Mayak showing the human and France and the UK.The environmental costs of reprocessing of Japanese radioactive waste opens to plutonium in Europe has led to great acclaim in Moscow. the transport of immense www.greenpeace.org/mayak Greenland 2001 Artist Bernard McLeod marked the anniversay of the quantities of radioactive june 2002 Greenpeace takes bombing of Hiroshima on 6 august 1945 by drawing a dramatic charcoal- material around the world at dust image on the ice. His figures recall the ‘shadows’ cast on buildings by to the high seas and the UK Japanese civilians as they were vaporized by the nuclear explosion huge risk to the countries High Court to prevent a along the route. Greenpeace is shipment of reject plutonium campaigning to stop our seas being returned to the UK from becoming nuclear highways Japan. BNFL is taking back and for an end to the the material after it admitted dangerous plutonium trade. to falsifying critical safety Meanwhile, the USA has plans data of an earlier shipment for testing and building new in 1999. nuclear weapons – the first new generation since the end challenges of the Cold War. In addition, the $238 billion missile Greenpeace will continue to defence programme – campaign against President Star Wars – is part of a Bush’s reckless Star Wars re-structuring of American programme and the threat of nuclear warfare which is nuclear weapons whether in highly destabilising. the US, Greenland, the UK or the Pacific Ocean. highlights We will work to halt the focus construction of a proposed july 2001 Seventeen new nuclear reactor in Finland Nuclear energy is not “clean” Greenpeace activists are – the first in Europe, east or energy. Nuclear reactors arrested during a peaceful west, in more than a decade. produce vast amounts of protest against the Star Wars nuclear powerradioactive waste.Thisand highly missile programme at Greenpeace will continue to dangerous material remains Vandenberg air base, work to stop the dangerous disarmamentradioactive for thousands of California and face felony trade in plutonium globally. years, and the nuclear industry charges and up to six years in has no environmentally or jail.The activists – known as publically acceptable solution the ‘Star Wars 17’ – are from for its disposal. Greenpeace is seven countries including the working to close nuclear USA, Australia, India, Sweden reactors so that no more and the UK. All are later radioactive waste is produced. released, but not before taking the opportunity to make powerful statements to the court outlining their moral and legal objections to Star Wars. www.stopstarwars.org reenpeace 2002 g 4 ExxonMobil oil tanker action, Genoa, Italy highlights challenges october 2001 Greenpeace Many of the world’s poorest throws down the gauntlet to people are experiencing the world governments to provide devastating impacts of climate c limate access to renewable energy for change through increased all, in particular the two floods, drought and disease, the Climate change is the single billion people – one third of result of centuries of fossil fuel biggest threat facing the global the world’s population – who use. Everyone has the right to environment.The world’s live without any power, within power but Greenpeace will on-going addiction to the ten years. continue to press for a massive burning of oil, coal and gas is increase in the uptake of january 2002 Following years causing the climate to change renewable energy. of campaigning by Greenpeace at rates faster than any time in and other environmental We will continue to campaign human history. groups, oil giant BP announces globally to stop companies like Early in 2001, the UN’s it is dropping plans for the ExxonMobil having undue Intergovernmental Panel on controversial ‘Liberty’ oil field influence over US energy Climate Change confirmed that in Alaska. policy, and to demand they the global climate was invest in alternatives to fossil may 2002 Esso/ExxonMobil, changing and that the burning fuels.