International Organizations Greenpeace presentation

Greenpeace helps

raise public knowledge

on environmental issues.

Greenpeace Ships

Uses ships to bear witness and

take action against global destruction.

The Rainbow Warrior

The Arctic Sunrise

The Esperanza

Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats to approach other vessels

They also use:

Greenpeace Ads

Great Achievements

Securing a ban on hazardous waste trade

from highly industrialized nations to

less-industrialized ones.

Changing oil industry plans to bury the

Brent Spar oil rig off the British coast.

Achieving a suspension on the planting of genetically engineered crops in Europe.

Eliminating toxic plastic in baby toys, manufactured by a leading toy company.

Other significant Greenpeace Victories

1972: US abandons nuclear testing grounds in Amchitka Island, Alaska.

1978: Put a stop to the slaughter of grey seals in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

1992: High sea drift netting was prohibited world-wide.

1998: Drift netting phased out completely.

2012: Federal Court of Appeal defended 2010 ruling, for definite

protection of killer whale habitat by law under the Species at

Risk Act.

2012: The government of South Korea stopped its plans to begin a 'scientific' whaling operation, a major step forward in global

efforts to protect whale populations.

Media

Influence

Greenpeace uses media for:

Social media

1.59M Followers

Funding raising and raising awareness about issues that perpetuate their cause.

2.7M Likes

Twitter

Facebook

Youtube

Website

Blogs

62.67M Views

People who founded Greenpeace

Bob Hunter (1941-2005)

David McTaggart (1932-2001)

Dorothy Stowe (1920-2010)

Irving Stowe (1915-1974)

Current Leadership

Kumi Naidoo (International Executive Director)

Phil Radford (Executive Director)

Nicky Davies (Campaigns Director)

Danny McGregor (Development Director)

David Barre (Communications Director)

Nathan Santry (Actions Director)

Britt Cocanour (Director of Public

Outreach)

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:

Funding

The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties

Relying manly on 2.9 million individual supporters and research.

They publish their Annual Report online every year to create transparency about their income and how they spend it.

Greenpeace's political ideology

Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.

Greenpeace is present in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.

Greenpeace has a staff of roughly 2,100 and 15,000 volunteers globally.

Activists are their greatest strength: ordinary people willing to do extraordinary things to protect the environment.

Greenpeace Around the World

Greenpeace as an NGO

They assert themselves as not being a political organization.

Greenpeace is by mission nonpartisan

and does not contribute to political campaigns.

In the United States, their nonprofit tax status restricts their ability to lobby the government.

Based on the governmental policies that they support, we can conclude that Greenpeace is an NGO with Liberal values

They target and engage those in

positions of power to pressure

them into taking the bold steps

needed to protect the planet.

In doing this, they adhere to their core value of independence by not being bought out.

They investigate, expose and

confront environmental abuse in order to lobby key parties.

Lobbying

Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them.

Exaggerating facts

In 1995, Greenpeace published a report on the oil company, Shell, and their plan to scuttle an offshore oil storage buoy. They claimed that this project would pollute the ocean with 5000 tons of oil. After public outrage and plan had been scrapped, it was revealed that the numbers Greenpeace included in their report were false.

Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict 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.

Anti- GMO Campaign

Since the emergence of GMOs, Greenpeace has been on the front lines of warning the public of the potential long term effects. In 2016, 107 Nobel laureates signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its opposition to GMOs. This letter was based on the fact that scientific and regulatory agencies around the world have repeatedly and consistently found that crops and foods improved through biotechnology are as safe as, and if not safer than those derived from any other method of production.

Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.

Anti-DDT Campaign

Greenpeace's campaign to shut down the last major DDT factory in the world located in Cochin, India, would make the eradication of malaria more difficult for poorer countries. Robert Gwadz of the US National Institutes of Health said in 2007, "The ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children."

Vandalism

In 1971, motivated to make

a change a small team of

activists set sail from

Vancouver, Canada, in an

old fishing boat

One of the biggest criticisms that Greenpeace has against it is that their 'Direct Action' approach leads to extensive damages to private and public property as a result of their vandalism

In October 2007, six Greenpeace protesters were arrested for breaking in to the Kingsnorth power station, climbing the 200 metre smokestack. They caused an estimated £30,000 damage.

Nuclear testing on Amchitka

ended that same year, and the

island was later declared

a bird sanctuary.

Their mission was to

"bear witness" to the USA's underground nuclear testing

at Amchitka Alaska

Criticisms

Anti-DDT Campaign

Anti- GMO Campaign

How did Greenpeace

get started?

Exaggerating facts

Vandalism

Even though their boat, was intercepted before it got to

Amchitka, the journey triggered

a flurry of public interest.

Although the US still detonated

their bomb their voice of

reason had been heard.

Amchitka was the last refuge

for 3000 endangered sea otters,

and home to bald eagles,

peregrine falcons and

other wildlife.

So...?

In your opinion, is Greenpeace an effective NGO concerned with various environmental problems or a cult with an extremist political ideology?

Thank you.

Sources:

www.greenpeace.org

www.youtube.com/user/GreenpeaceVideo

Who Is Greenpeace?

The largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world

“Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization which uses nonviolent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems”

Their Mission

“Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice.”

Greenpeace strives to:

seek action

from key

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