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Greenpeace backs Uluru Statement
SYDNEY, December 3 2020 – Greenpeace has today committed to walk with First Nations people towards a better future as the first environmental organisation to publicly formally endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart.Greenpeace has expressed wholehearted support for all reforms outlined in the Uluru Statement, which was created by more than 250 Indigenous delegates…
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The real life monsters behind the Amazon’s deforestation
The story behind Greenpeace’s latest animated film ‘There’s a Monster in My Kitchen’. Jag-wah’s forest home is being burnt down to grow animal feed for meat. If we don’t act, more precious habitats will be ruined, Indigenous Peoples could lose their homes, and we’ll lose the fight against climate change. Watch the film. A farmer…
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Emma Thompson: “If we want to save orangutans from extinction we need to save their home”
The first time I saw an orangutan in real life, I nearly peed with fright! I heard a great commotion in the trees above me and there he was, swinging through the branches, his huge plate-shaped face staring down. Rang-tan is the story of a little girl and her orangutan friend forced from her forest…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists deliver pipe to Citibank branch and call on lender to cut ties with deadly oil pipelines
SYDNEY, July 6, 2018 – Dozens of Greenpeace activists have staged a peaceful protest at a Citibank branch in Sydney’s CBD, calling on the global lender to cut its ties with Canadian tar sands pipeline projects that threaten Indigenous rights, water and marine life.Citi is among 12 global banks identified by Greenpeace which continue to…
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Climate leaders don’t build tar sands pipelines
You may have seen the news recently that Justin Trudeau has gone hell for leather and committed to a bail-out for the controversial Trans Mountain Expansion Project – a tar sands pipeline due to be built in Canada. The entrance to the Canadian High Commission in Trafalgar Square has been blocked by climate campaigners…
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Landmark human rights hearings against fossil fuel companies begin in the Philippines
Quezon City, The Philippines, 27 March 2018 – Fossil fuel companies are today under the spotlight as hearings begin in the Philippines into their contribution to human rights harms resulting from climate change.Youth, scientists, and legal experts are among those to testify in what is the world’s first national human rights investigation of its kind…
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The IEA’s World Energy Outlook and its Coal Bias
Coal fired power station Weisweiler near Eschweiler in the Rhenish lignite mining area. Steam coming out of cooling towers. Coal fired power plant owned by RWE AG. Braunkohlekraftwerk Weisweiler bei Eschweiler im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier, betrieben von RWE AG. Dampf steigt aus Kuehltuermen auf. OPLE who watch energy markets often claim the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) regular World…
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Forest Destruction
As much as 80% of the world’s forests have been destroyed or irreparably degraded.
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WEF 2018: Greenpeace brings Justice to Davos
Justice for People and Planet calls on governments to impose effective and binding rules on corporate behaviour, to make them accountable toward people and the planet. It shows how, rather than imposing these rules, governments have willingly or unwillingly become enablers of corporate impunity. The report’s analysis of 20 specific cases shows how corporations have…
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WOW! HUGE BANKS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS
The world shifted slightly on its axis today, with three major announcements by some of planet Earth’s largest financial institutions. As world leaders gathered in France to tackle climate change, one of the world’s largest banks, ING, announced that they are finally going to drop coal by 2025. ING Bank is a Dutch finance giant…