Greenpeace
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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.
Formation | 1969; 55 years ago (1969) – 1972 (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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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]