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The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, was greeted with a traditional Chinese lion dance in Hong Kong on Wednesday on her farewell tour which Greenpeace hoped would also raise awareness for clean energy.

09 February,2011 09:08 pm

The farewell tour campaign highlights the need for sustainable and clean energy and Greenpeaces opposition to government plans to expand its nuclear energy programme. Nuclear power will be one of the top focuses of Chinas plan to invest 1.5 trillion US dollars in seven key industries and shift the worlds number two economy away from its role as a supplier of cheap goods. Greenpeace celebrates its 40th birthday this year and its global head, Sarah Burton, said that Asia and Hong Kong especially, lay at a crossroads at the development of clean technologies. The Rainbow Warrior, led by Captain Mike Fincken, is on a tour of East Asia having spent a month in Taiwan, where the organisation launched its first ever protest on the island. Along with clean energy, Greenpeace is also campaigning for the protection of oceans and an end to the depletion of marine species such as tuna. Rainbow Warrior is the second Greenpeace vessel to sail under the name, the original Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk by French secret agents in New Zealand in 1985 to stop her campaign against French nuclear testing, killing a photographer on board. The second Rainbow Warrior will be taken out of service after 21 years at sea and replaced by Rainbow Warrior Three, which Greenpeace say will include the very latest in green technology.