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8 ways people are fighting for forests this International Day of Forests
Love trees? Then celebrate – 21 March is the International Day of Forests! |A bonobo in a bonobo rehabilitation center near Kinshasa. Bonobos were the last of the great apes to be discovered and live exclusively in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are considered to be man’s closest relative and organise themselves in…
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World’s coal power plants consume enough freshwater to sustain 1 billion people – Greenpeace
Press release – 21 March, 2016Sydney, 22 March 2016 – The world’s rapidly dwindling freshwater resources could be further depleted if plans for hundreds of new coal power plants worldwide go ahead, threatening severe drought and conflicts over water, according to a new Greenpeace International report released on World Water Day (22 March 2016).The report…
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“Certified ‘Green’ Schools: Savings & Benefits Fail To Materialize In North Carolina”
A report by the John Locke Foundation, a Koch-backed climate denial group
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Seven Reasons why Environmentalists (should and do) care about Refugees
Across the world, around sixty million human beings are currently displaced from their homes. It is a number so enormous it is hard to visualise, but it is as if roughly the entire population of the UK was violently tipped out on to the roads and oceans of the world. The loss of humanity from…
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Palm oil: who’s still trashing forests?
How ‘clean’ is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we’re releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Greenpeace activists deliver petitions to PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson in Sydney. The companies use palm oil in a…
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3 Ways You Can Help Stop Coke Trashing Australia
Our people-powered campaign to stop Coke trashing Australia went up a notch last week when we took to the streets to recycle some of Coke’s ad space. Coke spends millions getting its message across in Australia, whether it’s through advertising to sell more sugary fizzy drinks, or trying to influence important public policy issues.…
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Sliding Chinese coal consumption hastens Australian coal industry’s decline
Press release – 29 February, 2016Sydney, 1 March 2016 – New figures showing a further fall in Chinese coal consumption indicate the market for Australian coal is continuing to decline, and that more expansion of coal mining in Australia is economically irresponsible, said Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The data, released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics this…