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Greenpeace calls on the Cameroonian government to step up the fight to ban plastic
Cameroonian authorities recently intercepted and destroyed just over 42 tonnes of non-biodegradable plastic that transporters were attempting to smuggle into Cameroon at night.
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Over 40 NGOs call on donor governments to intervene to stop new logging plans in the Congo rainforest
As international donors prepare to announce a purported 1 USD billion forest protection agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC government is planning to lift a moratorium on new logging concessions that threatens some of the last intact tropical forest on earth.
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NGOs letter to donor governments
Imminent threat to the Congo Basin rainforest from the lifting of the DRC moratorium on new logging concessions
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WHO strengthens air quality guidelines: Greenpeace response
Save draft Preview Publish Add title WHO strengthens air quality guidelines: Greenpeace response Join the push against environmental injustice 22 September, 2021 - Today the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its air quality guidelines for the first time in 15 years. In 2020, air pollution in most of the world’s biggest cities failed to meet…
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Capital Markets Day: Sasol needs to raise ambitions amid unemployment crisis
21 September, Johannesburg — Greenpeace Africa challenges Sasol to raise its ambitions beyond profit and towards justice. Tomorrow, according to Sasol, it will release its emissions reduction roadmap to 2050…
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To stop greenwashing deforestation – banks too must be reined in
Mbil Thomas was a central stop in the hunting and gathering routes of Indigenous Baka People in Cameroon’s rainforest. Its trees provided fruit and honey and medicine for pregnant women…
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Greenpeace Africa and Senegal’s fishing communities condemn new industrial fishmeal and fish oil operations.
Greenpeace Africa revealed today that a new fishmeal and fish oil factory has opened in Sandiara, Senegal, the second such opening this year after a factory in Cayar began operations.
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How Widespread Deforestation In Africa Risks Our Climate Future
Africa’s forest cover is declining at an alarming rate due to deforestation. We talk about how deforestation in Africa is worsening the climate change crisis.
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NGOs Warn About Lifting DRC Logging Ban
Analysis by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) shows that amongst the forest areas likely to be handed over to loggers would be more than a million hectares growing on peat…
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Flooding in Cameroon: Greenpeace Africa demands effective and rapid government response
Cameroon is plunged under water every rainy season. Greenpeace Africa is calling on the government to put in place an effective disaster risk management plan.