Change My Community
Big change starts with small steps. It starts with you keeping nature intact. It starts with you demanding change in your community.
It all starts with you
A thriving environment is possible, and so are equitable societies that are just and peaceful. But the world doesn’t get better on its own. It gets better because individuals and communities work together to make it that way. We believe when we stand together and act, we can make the change in the world for a greener, fairer and more peaceful tomorrow.rnrnBe part of our growing movement by encouraging your friends, family and neighbours to get involved.
What you can do
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Should climate funding be a deal breaker for climate action in Africa?
As the world looks yet again with hope and anticipation to the current round of talks in the global climate conference in Egypt (COP27), it is clear that one of the most critical ways to address the climate quagmire is to make polluters pay.
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GMOs: A neo-colonial technology undermining food and seed sovereignty in Kenya
Kenya has lifted its 10 year ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines GMOs as organisms (plants, animals or microorganisms) whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating and/or natural recombination.
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GMOs: A neo-colonial technology undermining food and seed sovereignty in Kenya
Kenya has lifted its 10 year ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines GMOs as organisms (plants, animals or microorganisms) whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating and/or natural recombination.
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Decolonisation: An Indispensable prerequisite to environmental justice in Africa
All across the African continent a colonial approach of extraction and exploitation continues to plague and paralyse economies. It pushes ecosystems to the edge and puts pan-Africanism on a back burner.
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Bold climate and forest action can make Belém an historic COP30
Greenpeace has urged delegates to ensure COP30 results in a historic plan to end forest destruction and to urgently close the 1.5°C ambition gap.
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The real climate leaders: Indigenous Peoples and local communities
For years, international biodiversity and climate talks have brought big promises but little real progress on the ground. Most of the solutions presented are often too complicated to actually help the communities who need it the most.
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Greenpeace: world leaders must set the stage for COP30 climate, forests action
Greenpeace has called on world leaders meeting at the Climate Summit in Belém to send a clear signal to delegates at COP30 that the time has come to bridge the 1.5°C ambition gap.