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| Formation | 1969 – 1972 (see article) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Type | International NGO |
| Purpose | Environmentalism, peace |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Region served | Worldwide |
Executive Director | Mads Christensen |
Main organ | Board of directors, elected by the Annual General Meeting |
Budget | € 103.735 million (2022) |
Staff | 3,476 (2022) |
Volunteers | 34,365+ (2022) |
| Website | greenpeace.org |
Formerly called | Don't Make a Wave Committee (1969–1972) |
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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-nuclear issues.[5] It uses direct action, advocacy, research, and ecotage[6] to achieve its goals.
The network comprises 26 independent national/regional organisations in over 55 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating body, Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[7]
The global network does not accept funding from governments, corporations, or political parties, relying on three million individual supporters and foundation grants.[8][9] Greenpeace has a general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council[10] and is a founding member[11] of the INGO Accountability Charter, an international non-governmental organization that intends to foster accountability and transparency of non-governmental organizations.
Greenpeace is known for its nonviolent direct actions and has been described as one of the most visible environmental organizations in the world.[12] It has raised environmental issues to public knowledge,[13][14][15] and influenced both the private and the public sector.[16][17] The organization has received criticism; it was the subject of an open letter from more than 100 Nobel laureates urging Greenpeace to end its campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).[18] The organization's direct actions have sparked legal actions against Greenpeace activists,[19] such as fines and suspended sentences for destroying a test plot of genetically modified wheat[20][21][22] and, according to the Peruvian Government, damaging the Nazca Lines, a UN World Heritage site.[23]
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- ^ "Israel-Hamas war: Greenpeace hangs Gaza ceasefire artwork from Madrid museum".
- ^ Santese, Angela (2020). "Between Pacifism and Environmentalism: The History of Greenpeace". USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics. 3 (1S): 107–115. doi:10.6092/issn.2611-2752/11648.
- ^ "Greenpeace Protesters Paint Field of Genetically Altered Soybeans". Associated Press News. 10 October 1996. Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ "Greenpeace International: Greenpeace worldwide". Greenpeace.org. 7 January 2010. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Gilbert, Sarah Jane (8 September 2008). "Harvard Business School, HBS Cases: The Value of Environmental Activists". Hbswk.hbs.edu. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Greenpeace, Annual Report 2011 Archived 19 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "List of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council as of 1 September 2011" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ "International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter: Charter Background". Ingoaccountabilitycharter.org. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ Henry Mintzberg & Frances Westley – Sustaining the Institutional Environment. BNET.com
- ^ EU commissioner hails blockade on waste ship.[permanent dead link] EUbusiness, 28 September 2006.
- ^ Marc Mormont & Christine Dasnoy; Source strategies and the mediatization of climate change. Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, 49–64 (1995).
- ^ Milmo, Cahal (18 February 2009). "The Independent Wednesday, 18 February 2009: Dumped in Africa: Britain's toxic waste". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ "UNEP: Our Planet: Celebrating 20 Years of Montreal Protocol" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Adidas, Clarks, Nike and Timberland agree moratorium on illegal Amazon leather Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Telegraph, 4 August 2009.
- ^ "Laureates Letter Supporting Precision Agriculture (GMOs) | Support Precision Agriculture". supportprecisionagriculture.org. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
- ^ "Greenpeace members charged in Mount Rushmore G-8 protest". CNN.com. 7 January 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ^ GMO crops vandalized in Oregon Archived 24 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Karl Haro von Mogel, Biology Fortified, 24 June 2013.
- ^ "Greenpeace activists in costly GM protest". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
- ^ "GM crop destroyers given suspended sentences". The Canberra Times. 19 November 2012. Archived from the original on 5 February 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
- ^ Kozak, Robert (14 December 2014). "Peru Says Greenpeace Permanently Damaged Nazca Lines". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2015.