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1. Submitted to:
Dr. AJIT KUMAR DAS
(Associate Professor)
Department of ecology and environmental
science
Submitted by:
SUBRATA PAUL
Msc.3rd sem
Roll no.31
ASSAM UNIVERSITY,SILCHAR

2. The environmental movement can simply be defined as
a social and political movement, mainly concerning
with the conservation of environment as well as
improving the state of environment. It can also be
said as green conservation movement
Greenpeace is an independent global compaigning
organization that act to change attitude and behavior, to
protect and conserve the environment and to promote
peace.

3. Greenpeace state its goal is to “ensure the
ability of the Earth to nature life in all its diversity and
focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as
global warming, deforestation, over fishing,
commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues.
Greenpeace uses direct action , lobbying and research
to achieve its goals. The global organization does not
accept funding from government, corporation political
parties , relying on more than 2.8 million individual
supporters and foundation grant. Greenpeace is a
funding member of the INGO accountability charter,
an international non governmental organization that
intends to forest accountability and transparency of
non governmental organizations.

4. Greenpeace evolved from the movement and
antinuclear protest in Vancouver , British
Columbia, in the early 1970s. On september
15 , 1971, the newly founded Don’t make a
wave committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis
cormack, renamed greenpeace for the
protest, from Vancouver to oppose united
states testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka
Alaska . The don’t make a wave committee
subsequently adopted the name greenpeace.

6. In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several
countries and started to campaign on other
environmental issues such as commercial whaling
and toxic waste . In the 1970s the different
regional greenpeace grouped formed greenpeace
international to overse the goals & operations of
the regional organizations globally. Greenpeace
receiver international attention during 1980 when
the France intelligence agency bombed the
Rainbow Warrior in Aucklands Waitmata Harbour
one of the most well known vessels operated by
Greenpeace killing one individual. The greenpeace
evolved into one of the largest environmental
organization in the world.

7. Greenpeace evolved from a group of Canadian
protesters into a less conservative group of
environmentalists who were more reflective of the
Counterculture and Hippie Youth movement of the
1960s and 1970s. The social and cultural background
from which greenpeace emerged heralded a period of
deconditioning away from old antecedents and sought
to develop new codes of social, environmental and
political behavior. Greenpeace developed in a more
evolutionary manner.

8. Greenpeace is an independed global compaigning
organization that act to change attitude and behavior,
to protect and conserve the environment and to
promote by:
1) Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the
number one threat facing our planet: Climate change.
2) Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful
and destructive fishing, and creating a global network
of marine reserves
3)Protecting the worlds remain ancient forest
which are depended on by many animals, plant and
people.

9. 4) Working for disarmament and peace by
reducing dependence on finite resource and calling
for the elimination of all nuclear Weapons
5) Creating a toxic free future and safe alternatives
to hazardous chemicals in today’s products and
manufacturing.
6) campaigning for sustainable agriculture by
encouraging socially and ecologically responsible
farming practices.

10. Greenpeace was one of the first parties to
formulate a sustainable development scenario for
climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.
According to sociologist, greenpeace played a
significant role in the raising public awareness of global
warming in the 1990s.
The organization has also focused on CFc’s,
because of both their global warming potential and their
effect on the ozone layer. Currently greenpeace
considers global warming to be the greatest
environmental problem facing the earth. Greenpeace
called for global greenhouse gas emissions to peak in
2015 and to decrease as a close to Zero as possible by
2050.

11. Greenpeace have lunched the “Go beyond oil”
campaign. The campaign is focused on slowing, and
eventually ending the world consumption of oil, with
activist 'activities taking place against companies that
pursue oil drilling as a venture . Much of the activities
of the “Go Beyond oil” campaign have been focused
on drilling for oil in the Arctic and areas affected by the
Deep water horizon disaster.

12. Greenpeace views nuclear power as a relatively minor
industry with major problems, such as environmental
damage and risk from uranium mining , nuclear weapons
proliferation, and unresolved questions concerting
nuclear waste . The organization argues that the
potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warning is
marginal. By 2050 would cut global green house gas
emission less than 5% and requires 32 nuclear unit of
1000MW capacity build per year until 2050

13. Greenpeace forest campaign is committed to
protecting the worlds remaining ancient forests and
the plants, animals & peoples that depends upon
them. Investigate & expose the trade in illegal &
destructively logged timber.
Engage government & industry to end their role in
ancient forest destruction support the right of forest
people

14. Greenpeace in India has been working on
various issues related to the environment since 2001.
Work in India is focused on four broad campaign
namely- stop climate change , sustainable agriculture,
preserving the oceans and preventing another nuclear
catastrophe . Over the Years, Greenpeace India has
built a strong base of supporters spread across the
country

15. Greenpeace organization is very important our
environment . Greenpeace exist too expose environmental
criminals, and to challenge government and corporations.
When they fail to live up to their mandate to safe guard our
environment and our future. As one of the longest banners
Greenpeace have even made summed things up “ when
the last tree is cut , the last river is poisoned , and the last
fish dead, we will discover that we cant money.”

16. Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.
www. Greenpeace.org/international.
www. Greenpeace.org/India