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Arctic

The Arctic is in danger. Its ice is retreating at an increasing speed, cleaning the path for greedy oil companies that see this catastrophe as a business opportunity. Native people traditional way of life and health will be at risk and wildlife are to be uselessly endangered in the name of a shortsighted idea of progress and growth. Canada is one of the Largest Arctic countries in the world, and as such it has a clear responsibility to take a precautionary approach for any new development. The Arctic campaign is a massive worldwide effort to ban all industrial extractive activities at the inhabitant area in the Arctic oceans Together we can save the Arctic.

Climate and Energy 

Climate change and the threats of nuclear energy are real. That is why Greenpeace works to bring about a clean and just energy future. Tar sands and nuclear development plague the ecosystems and communities they occupy with safety and health risks. The Energy [R]evolution is a set of ready-to-implement solutions that lead away from the dangers of climate chaos and nuclear meltdown. It is a vision of the clean and just energy future for everyone on the planet.

Forests

With 80 per cent of the planet's ancient forests already lost or degraded, the need for increased protection of the world’s remaining forests is more urgent than ever. Forests help stabilize the climate, sustain life, provide jobs, and are the source of culture for many Indigenous communities. Greenpeace opposes destructive and unsustainable development in the remaining ancient forests in Canada and globally. To effect positive change and put lasting solutions in place, we challenge the global marketplace, engage consumers, pressure governments and work with industry to protect the Boreal Forest, the Great Bear Rainforest and the Indonesian Rainforest.

Oceans

Life on our blue planet depends on healthy oceans, but recent reports warn that sea life  faces the next mass extinction. Next to climate change, overfishing is the single greatest threat to marine biodiversity. Industrial fishing has reduced populations of large, predatory fish  like tuna, cod and sharks by about ninety per cent in the last fifty years. Growing demand for seafood, wasteful fishing practices and mismanaged fish stocks and aquaculture operations are leading to broken links in marine food chains in Canadian waters and worldwide. Urgent action is needed to protect marine life and allow recovery. Greenpeace works to relieve pressure on ocean ecosystems and to establish a network of no-take marine reserves–ocean parks–covering 40 per cent of the world's oceans.

GMO Foods

Genetically engineered foods pose unknown risks to human health and could cause irreversible biological pollution. The government must better regulate this experimental industry and support sustainable, organic agriculture.

 

The latest updates

 
New video: The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation challenge Shell

New video: The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation challenge Shell

Blog entry by Melina Laboucan-Massimo | May 23, 2013

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) attended the Shell Annual General Meeting in the Netherlands this week to take their message directly to the company’s CEO and shareholders. Eriel Deranger, a spokesperson for the ACFN,...

New documents show Exxon knew of dangerous contamination from their Arkansas tar sands spill, yet claimed area was “oil free”

New documents show Exxon knew of dangerous contamination from their Arkansas tar...

Blog entry by Jesse Coleman | May 22, 2013

On March 29 ExxonMobil, the   most profitable   company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil   from an underground pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline was carrying tar sands oil from Canada...

Is the oil industry using unsafe rail cars to transport crude?

Is the oil industry using unsafe rail cars to transport crude?

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | May 21, 2013 2 comments

As I write this, there is oil spilling from a CP Rail derailment in Saskatchewan . We don’t know the full impact yet, but this follows another CP spill on northern Ontario last month when the company first said the spill was only 4...

Sonora Island & the Great Bear Rainforest: Protecting What Remains

Sonora Island & the Great Bear Rainforest: Protecting What Remains

Blog entry by Eduardo Sousa | May 21, 2013 3 comments

The Great Bear Rainforest is so vast that it’s taken me four years just to visit the extraordinary old-growth forested valleys and islands, and communities of the central and north coasts of British Columbia – Bella Bella, Bella Coola,...

Resolute's green marketing won't cut it

Resolute's green marketing won't cut it

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt | May 16, 2013 1 comment

At Resolute Forest Products’ Resolute Forest Products’ annual general meeting of stockholders in Thunder Bay today, CEO Richard Garneau pointed to a lot of pictures of trees. Then he pointed to some colorful green pictures. Then more...

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