{"id":1796,"date":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/uncategorized\/1796\/greenpeace-challenges-shoprite-shareholders-to-engage-on-renewable-energy\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:23:22","slug":"greenpeace-challenges-shoprite-shareholders-to-engage-on-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/1796\/greenpeace-challenges-shoprite-shareholders-to-engage-on-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace challenges Shoprite shareholders to engage on renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">Cape Town, 31 October 2016 \u2013 Today, Greenpeace activists protested outside the Shoprite headquarters in Cape Town to demand that the retailer engages on the potential of renewable energy for South Africa. The protest at the Annual General Meeting follows the release of an updated version of the report Shopping Clean: Retailers and Renewable Energy on Thursday [1], in which Shoprite had the worst score among SA\u2019s top retailers. Activist held banners reading \u201cShoprite last again! Let\u2019s meet?\u201d as shareholders gathered to attend the retailers\u2019 AGM.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe want to ask the stakeholders of Shoprite today \u2013 are you going to let it pass that Shoprite comes stone cold last again on their commitment to renewable energy? Shoprite has yet to engage meaningfully with Greenpeace Africa on renewable energy issues. So our message is clear \u2013 now is time to engage on renewable energy,\u201d stated Penny-Jane Cooke, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Shoprite is the largest food retailer in South Africa and is the retailer of choice for millions of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoprite has an obligation to their staff, shareholders and customers to publicly share information, to be transparent and to engage on issues that are beneficial to the country. Renewable energy is a viable and mature technology that is increasingly being used in the retail sector, we therefore feel it is a massive missed opportunity for Shoprite not to engage with Greenpeace on these issues,\u201d added Cooke.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy provides a real opportunity for South Africa to move away from a development path based on polluting fossil fuels and expensive nuclear power, and retailers can take the lead to kick-start a future powered by renewable energy, for the benefit of all South Africans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes to the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] The Greenpeace Africa report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/10\/df07a14f-df07a14f-shopping-clean-retailers-and-renewable-energy-an-update-electronic-version.pdf\">Shopping Clean: Retailers and Renewable Energy \u2013An Update November 2016<\/a>,\u201dis available online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>makiy@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_1', '5E_60_3F_71_62_27_37_35_1F_7E_39_30_31_3C_13_60_7C_39_2C_31_70_3B_3D_3F_3B_2E_30_3B_3B_2C_39_1E_27_37_35_3F_33_64_31_2A_32_37_3F_33_7C_63_38_3B_2C_36_7E_3F_62'));\/\/--><\/script>, Senior Communication Manager, +27 71 688 1274<\/p>\n<p>hdena@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_2', '93_AD_F2_BC_AF_F2_FD_F6_D7_B3_FD_F6_FF_FF_F6_DB_AD_B1_F4_E1_FC_BD_F6_F0_F2_F6_E3_FD_F6_F6_E1_F4_D3_F2_FD_F6_F7_FB_A9_FC_E7_FF_FA_F2_FE_B1_AE_F5_F6_E1_FB_B3_F2_AF'));\/\/--><\/script> , Media Officer, +254 70 805 6207<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tCape Town, 31 October 2016 \u2013 Today, Greenpeace activists protested outside the Shoprite headquarters in Cape Town to demand that the retailer engages on the potential of renewable energy for South Africa. The protest at the Annual General Meeting follows the release of an updated version of the report Shopping Clean: Retailers and Renewable Energy on Thursday [1], in which Shoprite had the worst score among SA\u2019s top retailers. Activist held banners reading \u201cShoprite last again! Let\u2019s meet?\u201d as shareholders gathered to attend the retailers\u2019 AGM.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}