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Nestlé swaps throwaway plastic for throwaway paper on snack bars
Vevey, Switzerland – Nestlé announced today it has switched from plastic packaging to paper wrappers for its YES! snack bars, and that it plans to roll this out for other…
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New Greenpeace report warns of ‘irreversible harm’ from deep sea mining
The world’s oceans could face severe and irreversible harm unless tighter environmental safeguards are put in place to protect them from the risks of deep sea mining, warns a new…
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The world’s largest complex of tropical peatlands under threat due to industrial activities
Kinshasa, June 28, 2019 – Greenpeace Africa calls on the governments of the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo to ban all industrial activity in the world’s…
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Not in Our Country! Kenyans Denounce Plans to Build East Africa’s First Coal- Fired Power Plant
Nairobi, 28 June 2019 – Greenpeace Africa and members of the deCOALonize coalition have today met with Chinese Ambassador Wu Peng. This was a follow up on the letter delivered…
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Greenpeace expedition to the Congo Basin forest: “Industrial activity in the peatlands can detonate a 30,6 billion tonnes carbon bomb”
Kinshasa, June 26, 2019 – Greenpeace Africa and scientists from the Universities of Leeds (UK) and Kisangani (DRC) have concluded an expedition to the peatlands of the Congo Basin forest…
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Greenpeace: moratorium can help stop senseless whale deaths
28 June 2019, Johannesburg: Responding to news that a second humpback whale has died off the coast of False Bay from being entangled in octopus fishery nets, Melita Steele, Senior…
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National Environmental Tribunal cancels licence for Lamu Coal Plant
NET orders proponents to cease construction and undertake a new environmental and social impact assessment. Ruling invalidates the project’s current ESIA licence. Nairobi 26th June – Lamu residents were today…
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Coal Kills: Activists in Kenya Shout it Out Loud
It’s a cold morning in Nairobi as Kenyan citizens head to their respective jobs in a bid to build the nation. In the capital’s ‘Uhuru Park’ at the Freedom Corner…
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Ramaphosa leaves South Africans in the dark about how much more Eskom will cost
19 June 2019, Johannesburg — It was widely anticipated that President Cyril Ramaphosa would announce further governmental support for ailing power utility, Eskom, at the President’s State of the Nation…
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The Government’s Media Briefing Exposes Greed: Greenpeace
Nairobi, 20 June 2019 –The government spokesperson Colonel (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna today, called a media briefing and issued a statement on the controversial Lamu Coal Power Plant. Colonel Oguna alluded…
