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Don’t underestimate #YourPower – we are because of YOU!
The best time to be part of a movement and take action is right now! Our supporters and staff members have done and continue to do just that! The future is bright when you use #YourPower wisely.
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Joint letter to the Secretariat and Board Members of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and members of the Inter-donor Group for the Environment in DRC (GIBE)
We are writing in response to the General Inspectorate of Finance’s (IGF) audit of industrial logging concessions in DRC published by the Environment Ministry on April 1, and to ask that you take swift and appropriate measures to address its damning findings, including that the national logging moratorium be extended indefinitely.
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Global Plastic Treaty: Efforts Towards Turning off the Plastic Tap
In early March, global leaders and delegates from over 175 nations made history in Nairobi during UNEA 5.2 when they passed a mandate to start negotiations for a legally binding global plastics treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic pollution from production, transport to use and disposal. Negotiations are set to open later…
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The logging audit that spells disaster for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its donors
Kinshasa, 1 April 2022: After three months of pressure from Greenpeace Africa, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally backed down: it realized it was no longer possible not to publish an explosive 2020 audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) slamming the “culpable laxism” of the Environment Ministry and the…
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Senegal’s Presidential Council on Fisheries: We’re still waiting
Dakar, 31 March: Greenpeace Africa reminds the President of the Republic of his commitment to hold a presidential council on fishing.
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400,000 hectares of forest under threat in Cameroon: local communities are enraged, Greenpeace and its partners indignant.
The Ministry of Forests and Wildlife wants to allocate nearly 400,000 hectares of forest to logging concessions according to a decree made public in December 2021. Greenpeace Africa and its partners Green Development Advocates (GDA) and Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD) see such a decision as one of the too many threats…
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Just transition key to addressing youth unemployment: Greenpeace Africa
21 March, Johannesburg – On Human Rights Day, Greenpeace Africa calls on the South African government to fast track a just transition to renewable energy. Doing so will prioritise South…
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Distressing findings of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report signal climate litigation to come
Climate change is no longer imminent but violently unfurling before our eyes. As the South African government cautiously navigates the transition away from fossil fuels, the South African public is…
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How to Refill and Reuse at Home
The latest data from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency estimate that the average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of trash every day. However, this has since reduced, especially after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), introduced the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” campaign.
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The Negative Impact of Plastic in Nigeria: The need for a Legal Framework
Indiscriminate disposal, poor management and the unregulated use of plastic are fuelling a pollution crisis in Nigeria. The effects of plastic in Nigeria has negative environmental and health implications. The…
