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Our fight for safe, healthy oceans continues #IGC5
The fate of our oceans is being decided this month at the United Nations. Countries are meeting to finalise a new Global Ocean Treaty. A strong Treaty will make it possible to create vast ocean sanctuaries on the high seas. This is a vital step on the road to 30×30, 30% of the oceans protected…
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The Legacy of the Rainbow Warriors
This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of Greenpeace International. To celebrate half a century of fighting to protect the planet, we’re looking back on the legacy of Greenpeace’s most iconic ships - The Rainbow Warriors.
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Report: In Hot Water – The Climate Crisis and the Urgent Need for Ocean Protection
We are standing at a pivotal moment in history. A global movement unlike anything we’ve seen before is demanding governments take action to address the climate emergency. Young people, inspired…
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Ocean sanctuaries are the key to protecting our blue planet. Here’s the proof.
These success stories show how putting parts of the ocean off-limits to industry can make a huge difference ||||A group of Adeli Penguins are seen here in Antarctic sea ice. Our oceans are massive, and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across…
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What if we treated our oceans like they matter?
The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve. Humpback whale with young (Megapetra noveangliae). Buckelwal (Megapetra noveangliae). Under the restless surface of our seas, hundreds of miles from land, there’s a world of giants and hunters; ancient lifeforms and lost cities. These waters…
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Join us on an epic voyage to protect the oceans
We’re crossing the planet to expose the threats, peacefully confront the villains, and champion the solutions for our oceans.
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Biodiversity loss: urgent need for forest, ocean protection and dietary change
The report added that most of the global 2020 targets for the protection of nature outlined in the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (Aichi biodiversity targets) will not be met, undermining half of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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30×30: groundbreaking scientific study maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030
London, UK, 4 April 2019 – As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans by 2030, a target that scientists say is crucial in order to safeguard wildlife and to…
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Tackling plastic pollution at its source
Together let’s take on plastic pollution at its source: the corporations that produce it.
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For over 40 years Greenpeace has taken action to protect whales
Protect whales from the many dangers they face, from ‘scientific’ whaling to climate change.