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Greenpeace Africa Responds to Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Amy Ambatobe
In response to Minister Ambatobe’s statement, reported by RFI, in which he states that the moratorium does not concern the reinstated concessions, Greenpeace Africa Senior Forest Manager, Irene Wabiwa said:
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Climate outcast Trump surrenders US global leadership – Greenpeace
Johannesburg, 1 June 2017 – Denouncing Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement, Greenpeace International said the decision would cost the US its global leadership position and its share of the economic benefits of the clean energy transition. Greenpeace Africa Executive Director Njeri Kabeberi said:
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Norway and France threaten DRC’s forests
An area of rainforest the size of Italy is at risk of being cut down by loggers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), if the Norwegian government approves a French Development Agency (AFD) proposal to expand industrial logging there starting 2018.
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Reactive on the latest developments regarding Virunga and Salonga National Parks in the DRC
“It is with indignation that Greenpeace Africa learned last April that the DRC Minister of hydrocarbons, Aimé Ngoy Mukena, is working on a project that will open up a large block of two UNESCO World Heritage sites - Virunga and Salonga National Parks for oil exploration.
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Lost health and homes: the legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Moscow, Kiev, 9 March 2016 - Survivors of Chernobyl are still eating food with radioactive contamination above permissible limits thirty years after the nuclear catastrophe forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
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Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza sails into West Africa waters
Praia, 24th February 2017. The Greenpeace ship My Esperanza has today docked at the port of Praia in Cape Verde. For eleven weeks the Esperanza will sail the waters of six West Africa States - Cape Verde, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Senegal to raise awareness on the state of fisheries through political…
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Greenpeace ship arrives for the first time in Cameroon with a message for the protection of the Congo Basin forest
Douala, 13 October 2017: The Greenpeace ship – The Esperanza - has docked at the port of Douala in Cameroon on the first leg of its tour in Central Africa. For four weeks, the Esperanza will sail through the waters of Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo to engage…
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Crisis for FSC in the Congo Basin?
Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international principles and criteria for forest stewardship, or key policies and standards.
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30 Plastic Facts to Set the Record Straight
There is no disputing the critical environmental situation resulting from our excessive and unnecessary use of plastic. There is currently enough plastic in the ocean to circle the Earth over…
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Africa deserves a future free from fossil fuel bullying and legal intimidation
In the wake of the jury verdict in a North Dakota court in the SLAPP suit filed by fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) has issued statements laced with vindictive triumphalism and misinformation.
