Tackling climate change

Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. Its effects are being felt across the globe and it's already threatening the survival of the world's most vulnerable people. The energy sector alone is responsible for nearly two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions with coal a major contributor.

South Africa is the largest greenhouse gas emitters in Africa so Greenpeace is campaigning for South Africa to show leadership in Africa and the world by embracing an energy revolution that adopts ambitious renewable energy targets, moves away from the heavy reliance on coal and changes the misplaced belief that nuclear energy is a cheap or safe option to tackle climate change.

Saving the forests

The Congo Basin rainforest is home to some 40 million people who depend on it for their survival. This unique forest is also home to around 270 species of mammals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. The forest is essential for regulating the world's climate but it is threatened by industrial logging.

Greenpeace is working in partnership with local organisations to protect the forest for local people, the world's climate and the wildlife. We are also campaigning for an international financing agreement called, "Forests for Climate", which makes safeguarding intact forests more economically beneficial than their wholesale destruction.

Stopping the plunder of the oceans

The rich waters of Africa's coast are attracting fishing fleets from all over the world. With large fleets of foreign fishing vessels taking too many fish, the local fishermen in communities that dot the coast find depleted fish stocks where there was once a plentiful supply of fish.

Greenpeace is calling for a drastic reduction in illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, the reduction of foreign fleets' fishing capacity in African waters and creation of marine reserves to ensure the survival of Africa's coastal communities, and diversity of its marine life.