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 Economic 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.

Policies

Greenpeace allies itself with no political party and takes no political stance except the protection of the environment.

Greenpeace is independent of the influence of any government, group, or individual.

Greenpeace embraces the principle of non-violence, rejecting attacks on either persons or property.

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