00s 2000 The entrances to the European Patent Office in Munich are bricked up by activists following Greenpeace’s discovery that the office has issued a patent on the breeding of human embryos. Greenpeace protests against the construction of BP’s Northstar oil production project in the Beaufort Sea, off the coast of Alaska.
The BiosafetY Protocol is adopted in Montreal, Canada. It aims to protect the environment and human health from the risks of geneticallymodified organisms (GMOs) by controlling international trade of GMOs.
Claiming that Russia is drowning in oil while multinational oil corporations sit back and watch it all happen, Greenpeace protests at TotalFinaElf and other Western oil corporations, pressuring them to take responsibility for disastrous oil pollution in Siberia.
image 1 Greenpeace action against ‘Patents on Life’ in front of the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany © Oliver Soulas / Greenpeace image 2 Activists wearing sheep masks with patent tags in the ears © Thomas Einberger / Greenpeace image 3 Greenpeace activists building up a polar survival shelter on the roof of BP’s Northstar control centre module © Greenpeace / John Cunningham image 4 Greenpeace activists boarding a massive industrial BP barge transporting the control centre of its Northstar development © Greenpeace / John Cunningham image 5 Aerial view of the Arctic Sunrise, with BP’s Northstar island in the background © Greenpeace / Daniel Beltrá image 6 Greenpeace activists clearing oil pollution from Samotlor oilfield, West Siberia © Igor Gavrilov / Greenpeace
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