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Forests

Official data confirms Amazon deforestation still soaring and new footage captures the horror

São Paulo, Aug 6, 2021 - Official data published today by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), detected deforestation alerts across an area of the Amazon rainforest over five and…

by Alison Kirkman August 6, 2021

Forests

Images show large-scale illegal fires in the Amazon rainforest

Download photos here São Paulo, August 2, 2021 - Shocking new aerial photos captured by Greenpeace Brazil show large-scale illegal fires being used to clear land in the Amazon as…

by Alison Kirkman August 2, 2021

Climate change

Alok Sharma’s support for offsetting undermines 1.5C goal

Commenting on the launch event of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), attended by COP26 President Alok Sharma and US Climate Envoy John Kerry, Greenpeace UK's senior climate adviser Charlie Kronick…

by Stefano Gelmini July 29, 2021

Oceans

Caroline Lucas joins Greenpeace in protest at sea against industrial fishing damaging Sussex protected areas

Greenpeace activists have been joined by Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, at sea in a protest against destructive industrial fishing which damages the seabed that is taking place in supposedly protected areas off the Sussex coast.

by James Hanson July 23, 2021

Aerial view of a lush forest on fire, with clouds of smoke rising from the canopy.

Forests

Open letter to Tesco – “drop forest destroyers now”

Dear Ken Murphy, You may have read earlier this week the Independent’s investigation revealing that global meat companies are “routinely underreporting emissions, undermining climate science and casting doubt on plant-based…

by Alison Kirkman July 22, 2021

Sun shines through the sails of the Rainbow Warrior as it cuts through the ocean.

Renewable energy

Youth climate strikers’ solidarity with oil workers in Rainbow Warrior protest, calling for a just transition

YOUTH climate strikers have staged a protest in the North Sea today [WEDS 21] at Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm, calling for a just transition for oil workers.

by Emily Black July 22, 2021

A tipper truck with 'Stop plastic exports' stencilled on the side drops bags of plastic waste outside the gates of Downing Street. An activist wearing a caricatured Boris Johnson mask looks on.

Plastic

Wasteminster: Greenpeace dumps 625kg of plastic waste at the Prime Minister’s gate in call to ban plastic exports

London, Tuesday 13 July - 625 kilograms of plastic recycling has been dumped at Downing Street this morning, the same volume that the UK exports every 30 seconds. A figure…

by Stefano Gelmini July 13, 2021

Environmental justice

Giant protest at Tesco AGM as 10,000 shoppers say “drop forest destroyers”

Delegates arriving for Tesco’s Annual General Meeting were greeted by activists holding giant letters spelling out the words ‘FOREST CRIME’ 10 metres wide at Tesco’s Welwyn Garden City headquarters this…

by Alison Kirkman June 25, 2021

Environmental justice

“Money making racket” in training courses blocks oil workers moving to renewables

Almost two thirds of offshore workers reported having to repeat training they'd already done.

by Emily Black June 22, 2021

Climate change

Swarm of 300 drones descends on Cornwall demanding G7 world leaders ‘ACT NOW’ to protect the planet

A groundbreaking new Greenpeace film calls on world leaders gathered at the G7 to ‘ACT NOW’ to tackle the climate and nature crisis.

by Phil Richards June 11, 2021