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World Food Day 2018: Kenyans Demand Healthy Food
Nairobi, 16th October 2018 – Consumers and small scale farmers have today handed over a petition to Parliament and the Ministry of Agriculture calling for an overhaul of Kenya’s food…
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Reactive on IPCC Report
Kinshasa, 9th October 2018: In October, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre industrial levels…
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Africa’s Forests Under Threat
From chocolate spread to toothpaste, shampoo to Melba toast, palm oil can be found in countless everyday products.
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Cut from Congo
From 2000 to 2013, the global area of intact forest landscapes (IFLs) decreased by 7.2%, a reduction of 90 million hectares, with industrial timber extraction as the lead driver behind this fragmentation and degradation globally. In Africa, selective logging is the dominant cause of IFL loss.
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No room for secrecy
The Life After Coal Campaign (made up of groundWork, the Centre for Environmental Rights and Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg) together with Greenpeace Africa are deeply concerned about the current state of South Africa’s energy policy. Vital procurement decisions are being made in a turbulent, chaotic environment, mired by controversy, secrecy and misrepresentation. At this critical juncture…
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License to Kill?
This paper provides an estimate of the health damages and economic costs that would be avoided if Eskom was made to fully comply with the national air emission standards -- the very standards it is currently trying to bypass.
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Shopping Clean – Retailers and Renewable Energy
South Africa’s top five retailers (Pick n Pay, Massmart, Spar, Woolworths and Shoprite) have a major role to play in shaping sustainable growth in the energy sector and need to champion South Africa’s transition to 100% renewable energy, according to the latest report launched today by Greenpeace Africa.
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Resilience Reports
Our climate is changing and all over the world we are experiencing more unpredictable and uncertain weather than in the past. Those depending on the weather for their daily bread – farmers and farm workers – are feeling, and will continue to feel, climate change more intensively than everyone else. East Africa has first-hand experience…
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Youths demand a better Farming System as Kenya Celebrates World Food Day
Nairobi, 16 October, 2017: As Kenya celebrates the World Food Day (WFD) today, youths from eight Kenyan universities have converged, at the Louis Leaky Auditorium- Nairobi National Museum, to debate on issues that the Government of Kenya needs to address in order to safe-guard Kenyans food security and protect consumers from the threats of a…
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Greenpeace Reaction to Microplastic Pollution on South Africa’s Tap Water: The Scourge of Plastic Pollution is a Living Reality
Plastics continue to haunt us long after we have used them[1] because during the degradation process, they break down into microparticles, which then contaminate our water systems. We know that this has an impact on our oceans and the animals living in them, but the findings from the latest report commissioned by the Water Research…
