Greenpeace forms unit for `green’ technology

AMSTERDAM, AUG 10: The environmental group, Greenpeace, said on Thursday that it was forming a unit to spur the creation of `green' techno...

AMSTERDAM, AUG 10: The environmental group, Greenpeace, said on Thursday that it was forming a unit to spur the creation of `green’ technologies.

“The objective of the unit is to influence the development of technology towards sustainable solutions and promote their entry into the market,” Greenpeace Executive Director Thilo Bode said in a statement.

The move follows the organisation’s work in devising environmental guidelines for the Sydney Olympics.

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Greenpeace said it had convinced Olympic sponsor Coca Cola to replace their refrigerants with Greenfreeze technology in their worldwide operations.

Greenpeace developed Greenfreeze, which uses hydro-carbon gases such as Propane, instead of hydro-Chloro-Fluoro Carbons (HCFCs) and Hydro-Fluoro Carbons (HFCs), identified as causing depletion of the ozone layer and global-warming.

Scientists say too much carbon-dioxide and other gases create a greenhouse effect which is raising world temperatures.

The organisation, with its global headquarters in Amsterdam, said it would build on previous work on technology and appoint the system-analyst and physicist, Harry Lehmann, to head the new unit.

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Lehmann is the former director of the Wuppertal Institute, a German environmental research organisation.

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