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Internal documents and a whistleblower reveal how global pesticide giant Syngenta and its predecessors knew for decades that a key 'safety' feature in its lethal paraquat-based weedkillers did little or nothing to prevent poisoning deaths – but continued to present it as effective to regulators and the public.
A 30-metre-long living artwork made of seed paper was unfurled and displayed at Westminster this morning by artists and allotmenteers. They are urging the government to enable people to exercise their rights to allotments as part of the solution to food insecurity, the cost…
Today, Greenpeace UK launches a campaign against Tesco, calling on the UK’s largest supermarket to stop buying meat and dairy from companies involved in destroying the Amazon and to halve the amount of meat it sells by 2025 to protect people, wildlife and the climate. Tesco…
An allotment-sized living artwork called The Waiting List was guerrilla-planted by volunteers at a disused Tesco-owned site in Litherland, just north of Liverpool, this morning in an act of defiance against the industrial food industry. Made of seed paper and embedded with ash from…
A 50-strong gathering of family members, journalists and civil society organisations held vigil at the Brazilian Embassy in London this morning to urge Brazilian authorities to scale up the search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira. …
Greenpeace investigates, documents and exposes the causes of environmental destruction. We work to bring about change by lobbying, consumer pressure and mobilising members of the general public. And we take peaceful direct action to protect our Earth and promote solutions for a green and peaceful future.
SAO PAULO – Annual deforestation data (PRODES) released in Brazil at 1800hrs (GMT-3) today shows the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon since 2008 with 11,088km2 deforested between August 2019 and July 2020. [1] …
Consumer concern high as new data shows deforestation linked to supermarket meat is accelerating.
The world’s largest meat processor, JBS, and its leading competitors Marfrig and Minerva slaughtered cattle purchased from ranchers linked to the 2020 fires that destroyed one-third of the world’s largest inland wetland in the Pantanal region of Brazil, Greenpeace International reveals in a new report published today.
The UK is leaving the EU. But what does this mean for environmental laws and standards? How are fishing, farming and climate change going to be handled from now on? There’s not much detail yet, but here are a few areas to watch as the government passes new laws and paves the way for future trade deals.
The UK government’s audit reform proposals don’t go far enough to fix the scandal-ridden industry, not least because they fail to adequately cover fundamental issues like climate change and reform of underlying accounting principles, warned 9 campaign groups and experts including Greenpeace, ClientEarth, the Fair Tax Foundation and academics from…
Properly integrating climate risk into companies’ financial statements and auditor’s reports would help to shift capital away from climate destroying activities. However, most UK companies and their auditors are failing to meaningfully disclose these risks and their financial implications.
An Indigenous expert and British journalist went missing in the Amazon in early June. Their deaths mark the latest in a series of attacks against Indigenous communities, their land and allies in Brazil.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has delivered its synthesis report - the final chapter of its Sixth Assessment - to world governments in Switzerland.
In reaction to news reports about the Prime Minister’s plan to phase out gas boilers by 2035 and provide £5000 grants for households to install heat pumps, Greenpeace UK’s head of climate, Kate Blagojevic, said: “While £5000 grants and a 2035 boiler phase out date are a decent start,…