TL: GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
SO: Greenpeace International (GP)
DT: October, 1990
keywords: environment greenpeace gp /

GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL

Greenpeace is an international environmental organization with
approximately four million members worldwide. Greenpeace has
offices in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
the Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the
United States.

The organization traces its roots to a small group of people in
British Columbia, Canada, who successfully opposed US nuclear
testing in Alaska in the early seventies. The organization has
since developed considerably and is now involved with a wide
range of environmental issues, including threats to the marine
environment and its living resources, climate change and toxic
waste problems.

Greenpeace campaigns through research, education, non-violent
direct action and lobbying on both the national and international
levels. Greenpeace has recognised status with a number of
international organizations, including consultative status with
the United Nations Econornic and Social Council. Greenpeace
employs highly qualified experts in a number of environmental
fields.

Greenpeace does not accept financial support from governments or
corporations, but is financed exclusively through individual
donations.

Information sheet October 1990