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COP30 ends meekly, failing to convert momentum into forest, finance and climate action
Belém, Brazil - 22 November - Belém ends without what matters the most: a real adaptation deal, a time-bound fossil phase-out and an actionable forest roadmap. Africa showed up for justice; its politics chose compromise.
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Wealth taxes to fund a Fair Future: A Call to the G20
When G20 leaders gather in South Africa later this month, they do so at a time when the world is a dangerous tipping point. From devastating floods to rising food prices, deepening inequality and skyrocketing debt in the Global South, multiple crises are converging and the international system meant to manage them is failing.
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Greenpeace Africa urges African governments to back a Belém Fossil-Fuel phase-out Roadmap
Belém, Brazil — More than 80 countries now back a global roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. With only four African signatories so far, Greenpeace Africa urges more African governments to join this coalition and use it to lock in finance, fairness, and safeguards that make the transition real at home.
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Proposed COP30 decision texts fail to raise ambition, protect forests, deliver finance
Belém, Brazil, 21 November 2025, Greenpeace has dismissed the second Mutirão Decision text at the UN climate conference COP30 and urged parties to reject it and send it back to the Presidency for revision.
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COP30: Progress on fossil fuel phase-out and forest protection, but more action needed
Belém, Brazil, November 2025 As the first week of COP30 ends, Greenpeace is calling on world leaders to turn promises into action by adopting a clear plan to end deforestation by 2030, phase out fossil fuels, and deliver fair climate finance that keeps the 1.5°C goal alive.
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Greenpeace joins over 40,000 marching in Belém calling for forest and climate action at COP30
Belém, Brazil, 15 November 2025 — Greenpeace joined more than 40,000 people at the Global Climate March in Belém to end the first week of the UN climate conference, today.
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Plastic isn’t just trash, it’s a justice issue
Kenya outlawed plastic bags in 2017; a step in the right direction. But look around the bottles and sachets and wrappers are still pouring out of our streets, drainages and rivers. It is not whether bans will work but why is it that we continue to fail trying to ban one type of plastic but…
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Soil carbon credits in Tanzania are a climate solution built on sand – and Kenya could be next
At first glance, these projects seem like a win-win: protect the land, store carbon in the soil, and generate income for local communities. But when you read the fine print and speak to those who are involved, a different picture emerges – one where climate action becomes a cover for land control and exploitation.
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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.