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Still from an animated film about deep sea mining, showing a huge machine ploughing up the seabed with powerful headlights.

Deep sea mining – what you need to know

Deep sea mining is the practice of mining metals and minerals from the seabed. Among many other risks to people and biodiversity, it would damage the oceans beyond repair, threatening their ability to help fight climate change. Here’s everything you need to know.

by Greenpeace UK March 24, 2023

Still from an animation showing cartoon turtles smiling at a protest, holding placards calling for ocean protection

Oceans

Greenpeace, Aardman and Oscar winning actors collaborate on groundbreaking new animation highlighting global ocean crisis

London, 15 January 2020 – Greenpeace and Aardman, the award-winning creators of Wallace & Gromit, have today launched a powerful new animated film highlighting the plight of the world’s oceans.

by James Hanson January 15, 2020

Virginia looks into the camera with a serious expression. She wears a tshirt with a climate justice slogan.

Activism

“My new home was a dream come true – then climate disaster struck”

Now I’m making sure fossil fuel companies are held responsible for the lives they’ve destroyed.

by Virginia Benosa-Llorin January 31, 2023

Climate change

Lack of climate investment creating ‘planet-sized debt’ for our kids, new Chancellor warned

18 civil society organisations, supported by millions of British people, have warned Sajid Javid that the government is on course to miss its net zero target without a big investment in climate and nature.

by Graham Thompson September 2, 2019

Greenpeace campaigners are outside the High Court to challenge the UK Government’s reckless decision to announce a new licensing oil and gas round, with fossil fuel companies submitting more than 100 licences to explore for new oil and gas. The oral hearing is a permissions hearing for Judicial Review on this decision.

Oil and gas

New North Sea licences are ‘cynical political ploy’ – Greenpeace comment

If Sunak were serious about boosting our energy security while keeping energy bills down, he’d remove the absurd barriers holding back cheap, homegrown renewables and launch a nationwide insulation programme to tackle energy waste in our homes

by Florri Burton July 31, 2023

Climate change

New oil and gas licences – Greenpeace comment

Boris Johnson is to announce the first new round of North Sea exploration licences since 2019, according to The Times. New licences will take, on average, 28 years to start…

by Emily Black March 8, 2022

Climate change

New Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho has a lot of catching up to do – Greenpeace comment

The new Energy and Net Zero Secretary has picked up the baton for the final leg of a relay where her fellow runners have mostly been walking, sometimes backwards.

by Kai Tabacek August 31, 2023

A drilling structure platform lit up at dusk, silhouetted against the blue-orange sky

Environmental justice

Taxing fossil fuel giants could raise $720 bn by 2030 to help world’s poorest with climate damages, new report finds

A tax on the extraction of fossil fuels in the world’s richest advanced economies could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade to support the world’s most vulnerable…

by Joe Evans April 29, 2024

Campaigners in a small inflatable boat pull up behind an industrial fishing ship as it hauls in a huge green net. They hold up a banner reading 'This is a Marine Protected Area'

Oceans

Fishers declare emergency in English Channel and Southern North Sea with Greenpeace

Greenpeace, fishers, anglers, charter skippers and fishing businesses have come together to declare a state of emergency in the English Channel and Southern North Sea.

by James Hanson September 10, 2021

Forests

New Amazon law “would be like plunging a dagger into the lungs of the world,” says Greenpeace

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Today, at 13:55 Brasilia time (17:55 BST), the Brazilian Congress is expected to vote on the Project of Law (PL) 2633/2020. If passed, it would put…

by Alison Kirkman May 20, 2020