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The General Inspectorate of Finance report on logging in DR Congo: The Minister of Environment persists in sowing confusion
Kinshasa, April 27, 2022: On April 12, following the publication of the audit report of the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) of the logging industry, Minister of the Environment Eve…
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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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Greenpeace Africa reacts to scientific report on wildfires projecting an infernal 21st century
A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report projects a 50 per cent global increase in wildfires by 2100. Greenpeace Africa is calling on governments to boost their preparedness and protect the continent’s rainforests ahead of an infernal century.
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Greenpeace USA welcomes Coca-Cola’s key step toward goal of 50% of reusable packaging by 2030
10 February 2022, Washington, DC, USA — Coca-Cola announced today its decision to make at least 25% of its packaging reusable. The multinational company which produces over 120 billion plastic…
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Will the courts stop Shell in the Wild Coast? Second urgent hearing to take place this week
MAKHANDA -- On Friday, 17 December, the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda will hear arguments in application of an urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey along South Africa’s Wild Coast.
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Massive blow for the Wild Coast: Urgent interdict denied
Court refuses to interdict seismic survey on the basis that “irreparable harm” to marine species not proved.
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Bees in Crisis: Toxic insecticides a threat to food security
Bees play a critical role in food and nutrition security in Kenya through cross-pollination. They are also a source of income for farmers, through products such as honey, pollen, beeswax, propolis and royal jelly.
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Tradelink affair: Greenpeace Africa denounces the lies and attempts at intimidation by the Ministry of Environment
Kinshasa, 5 November 2021 – Greenpeace Africa is outraged by the lack of professionalism and attempts at intimidation from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) in reaction to…
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Democratic Republic of Congo Minister Implicated in Illegal Forest Concessions Scandal
Kinshasa, 29 October: Greenpeace has learned that the Congolese Vice-Prime Minister and Environment Minister currently presenting her country as the world's carbon offsetting solution was promoting six illegal forest "conservation" concessions the size of the Bahamas only days before President Felix Tshisekedi ordered them suspended, in the run-up to COP26.
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African Union urged to address the threat of Congo forest logging driving extreme weather across sub-Saharan Africa
Kinshasa, 21 October 2021 – industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may severely disturb rainfall patterns across sub-Saharan Africa and bring about more extreme weather, including intense…