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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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Open letter to the Ministry of Agriculture
Following chemical control operations against locust infestation in Kenya in March 2021, Greenpeace Africa (GPAF) carried out an environmental sampling and analysis between March and April 2021 to identify the pesticides used in spraying the locusts.
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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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Greenpeace Africa Volunteers Demand Accountability From United Phosphorus Limited
Greenpeace Africa volunteers have launched a petition demanding accountability from United Phosphorus Limited following the July explosion of their chemical warehouse in Cornubia in Durban.
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Empowering women to empower the world of sustainability
Earth, our source of life, is now becoming the barren, toxic wasteland we have always feared with only 23% of our wildlife remaining.
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License to kill in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Greenpeace Africa joins the outcry against the legalization of killing protected species
4 August 2021, Kinshasa – Greenpeace Africa supports the call of over a hundred local NGOs as well as the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) to immediately cancel a…
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A day to remember / Bruneau Laurette, Rama Valayden, Melita Steele, Hisayo Takada
At 1am July 25 2020 in Tokyo, Mr. Junichiro Ikeda, then-CEO of shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), was most likely already in bed. At the same time in London, Bernard Looney, CEO of British Petroleum (BP), was probably enjoying a most pleasant weekend. Both have probably had a rather routine day. In many ways…
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Global Plastic Treaty a Non-Negotiable in Tackling Africa’s Plastic Crisis.
The world is living in a state of multiple crises; climate crisis, plastic crisis, health crisis and social crisis. Today, globalisation connects almost every part of the planet through a series of well-established trade routes. This presents us with great opportunities to collaborate and enable meaningful cooperation to address most of these challenges that we…
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Kenya’s Post Covid Recovery has to be People Centered NOT Coal Centered.
The Post Covid Recovery Budget needs to address the climate and COVID-19 crises faced by Kenyans and not funding coal.
