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Climate, forest protection roadmaps slashed from formal COP30 outcome as people demand change
Belém, Brazil - What started with strong hope and promise ended without actionable roadmaps to end forest destruction and the burning of fossil fuels, as geopolitical divisions again showcased the disconnection with people calling for COP30 climate action.
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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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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.
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Kenya’s deadly landslides and rising waters reveal the true cost of climate injustice
Kenya is once again counting its losses in the wake of devastating climate-fuelled disasters. At least 32 people have died and dozens remain missing after a powerful landslide struck Elgeyo Marakwet County, following days of relentless rainfall that turned steep highland slopes into rivers of mud.