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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From Bezos’ wedding to Sevilla’s streets: A global demand to tax the super-rich
On June 23rd, just days before Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Venice wedding, Greenpeace Italy and UK grassroots group called Everyone Hates Elon dropped a 20-meter banner in Piazza San Marco: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax”.
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Upholding AMCEN Decision 19/2 on Plastic Pollution
Safeguarding Africa’s global reputation and environmental leadership
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AMCEN 20: Ministers must deliver bold action on plastics, climate justice and forest protection
As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) convenes in Nairobi, Greenpeace Africa calls on the continent’s environmental ministers to demonstrate bold leadership on critical environmental challenges facing the continent and the world.