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At lunchtime today, Greenpeace UK delivered an award to Burger King UK CEO Alasdair Murdoch for the company’s role in the Amazon fires and deforestation in Brazil. Murdoch was delivering a speech on leadership at a restaurant conference in London so Greenpeace UK popped down with a snazzy burger-shaped…
The Amazon is on fire and global fast food companies can put a stop to it. They must stop buying meat, chicken and soya from Brazil until the Amazon and its people are protected.
Boris Johnson lied to the public over commitments made to the Paris Agreement
COP26 today saw a flurry of announcements on forests – among them a new agreement between governments, including Brazil, to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. But Greenpeace slammed the announcement as a green light for another decade of forest destruction. Responding from Glasgow to the announcement, Greenpeace Brazil executive…
A jaguar’s forest home is being burned to grow animal feed for the meat industry. If we don't act, more precious habitats will be destroyed, Indigenous people could lose their homes, and we’ll lose the fight against climate change.
Responding to the news that Brazil has recorded a 13-year high in fire hotspots for the month of June, Anna Jones, Greenpeace UK Head of Forests, said: “These fires are no accident. Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, has done nothing…
The world’s largest wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, was ravaged by fires in 2020. A Greenpeace report reveals that UK supermarkets, including Tesco, and fast food companies are funding the destruction.
Greenpeace Local Groups are handing in public polling they’ve done locally to Tesco on 30 October. Find your nearest group and join them in telling Tesco to stop destroying the Amazon.
Airlines and oil companies love talking about carbon offsetting. But to be serious about tackling climate change, they need to stop carbon emissions from getting into the atmosphere in the first place.
It’s hard to find anything on the shelves that doesn’t contain palm oil – it’s in about half of all supermarket products. But the palm oil industry is responsible for destroying Indonesia’s forests on an epic scale. This is accelerating climate change, and also forces people from their traditional lands and threatens orangutans with extinction. We need to change the industry and stop palm oil companies destroying forests.
12 iconic photos from a year of disruptions - and the struggle to protect our future
Brazil’s government has been making it easier for land grabbers to steal and burn protected Amazon land reserved for Indigenous People. Now, it’s for sale on Facebook Marketplace – and Facebook are refusing to take the ads down.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Today,…
Think you know your climate villains? One thing you might not know is that banks such as Barclays have earned themselves a place at the top of the list. They're funding the companies fuelling climate change – whether it's drilling for oil, clearing forests or violating human rights.
Greenpeace responds to Nestlé's claim that 77% of its commodities are now deforestation-free