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What Is The Future Of The Forests? DRC Youth Answer With Aplomb

Blog entry by Monica Davies and Augustine Kasambule | October 25, 2011

In September, we reported on The Future Of Forests In Poetry competition that Greenpeace Africa is holding in the DRC as an initiative to educate and mobilize the Congolese youth to preserve their precious trees. The first leg of...

Kusile Power Plant: The Waking Giant

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | October 21, 2011

The science is clear: burning coal is driving climate change – and Africa’s people are on the front lines. So, as the continent’s largest CO2 emitter – and the 12th largest in the world – South Africa has a lot to answer for in terms...

The Greenpeace (Sun)iversity moves through Durban

Blog entry by Monica Davies | October 14, 2011

Following the success of Greenpeace’s youth outreach solar power training camp that took place at the end of last month, the team of volunteers and Greenpeace activists from the camp have taken their Solar Caravan, featuring...

Panama Climate Talks: The Pressure is On For COP17 and South Africa

Blog entry by Ferrial Adam | October 10, 2011

The UNFCCC talks in Panama ended on Friday 07 October 2011. The talks did not deliver any major surprises as was expected for this very-low-expectations-technical-meeting. An outcome of Panama is that we now have a draft text that...

West African Fisheries Decline Steeply as Government Fails to Act

Blog entry by Monica Davies | September 22, 2011

The traditional Senegalese delicacy leads the way in the decline of West African fish population while local government gives fisheries no respite. The Senegalese Maritime Economy Ministry has failed to save its country’s...

Save The Tiger's Home: a call for governments to implement zero deforestation policies

Blog entry by Monica Davies | September 19, 2011

In July, we reported the sad story of an endangered Sumatran tiger dying in a trap in an Asian Pulp & Paper (APP) plantation after being snared for six days in total without food or water. The shocking images brought home the toll...

Dramatic Arctic Art

Blog entry by Juliette H | September 7, 2011

We sometimes feel like we're repeating ourselves when we talk about  Arctic sea ice - because we are. In recent months, sea ice extent has been again reaching record lows - right now, it's at a  second-low record, just behind the 2007...

Puma Leaps Ahead of Nike and Adidas in Detox Challenge

Blog entry by EoinD | July 26, 2011

Hats off to Puma, the third largest sportswear company in the world, for publicly committing today to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals from its entire product lifecycle and across its whole supply chain by 2020. The...

How to lose a foot on fieldwork

Blog entry by Zhong Yu - East Asia Action & Investigative Unit | July 20, 2011

Zhong Yu has worked for Greenpeace China for over seven years and has witnessed some of the most devastating environmental disasters there from rapid glacier retreat on the Himalayas, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to  last summer’s...

BREAKING: Polar Bears occupy Cairn's HQ

Blog entry by bex | July 18, 2011

Update:  Cairn gets legal 'gagging order', requiring some Facebook & Twitter updates from our polar bear action be removed. A few moments ago, fifty polar bears entered Cairn Energy's Edinburgh headquarters and occupied it. Their...

The Energy Revolution is Already Happening

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | July 12, 2011

The Renewable Energy Network (REN21) has just released a new global report on the growth of renewable energy in 2010 -- and it brings with it some very exciting news! Even if South Africa isn't being as ambitious as it could be...

Still Hope For An Agreement

Blog entry by Nobuhle Luthuli | December 12, 2011

Today (Sat, 10) is the last day of the COP17 in my home city, Durban. It has been two weeks of meetings, media releases and side events. Days have passed by, but progress is lagging behind with regards to the signing or a committing to...

While they negotiate, we continue with operation business unusual

Blog entry by Nobuhle Luthuli | December 12, 2011

It is quite evident that the 17 years of policy drafting are insufficient for a united agreement against climate change.  Today is the last day of the COP17 conference and we still hear statements like “we will consider being subject...

The Conference Of The Youth

Blog entry by Nasreen Khan | December 5, 2011

Extreme weather conditions had "welcomed” delegates to the United Nations Climate Conference (COP17) being held here in Durban, for those who arrived last week, instead of experiencing the much talked about Durban sun, they endured...

Sharing Ideas On Global Warming

Blog entry by Vivek Rampersand | December 2, 2011

Delegates from Africa, Europe, India and China this week had an opportunity to share experience and exchange ideas on the contentious subject of global warming. I attended the meeting, which took part on the side-lines COP17. ...

Kyoto Protocol Ship Must Not Sink Into African Ocean

Blog entry by Nobuhle Luthuli | December 2, 2011

From the sessions I have attended so far, I fear for the worst.  I have a sense that there is indecisiveness and lack of commitment by developed countries to make a second commitment to the Kyoto Protocal (KP) . As a young African...

Need For Urgency In Addressing Climate Change

Blog entry by Nasreen Khan | December 1, 2011

When I arrived at the venue for COP17, the first thing that caught my attention was the overflowing information that was exhibited at the Climate Change Response Expo. It encompassed more than 100 exhibitors, showcasing innovative...

Government continues to back Eskom’s investments in coal

Blog entry by Melita Steele | May 17, 2012

It was announced yesterday that Eskom's funding plan to 2017 had been approved. The utility company will spend R201.6 billion over the coming period, with R65 billlion budgeted for this year.    Part of the funding plan includes a...

The Tuna Industry's Wasteful Practices Revealed in Shocking New Video

Blog entry by Monica Davies | November 17, 2011

Greenpeace has again shed light on the careless and wasteful fishing practices that are rife throughout our oceans with the release of shocking new video footage, captured by a tuna industry whistleblower. The video footage that...

We Want a Brighter, Nuclear-Free Future in South Africa

Blog entry by Monica Davies | September 22, 2011

One might wonder what 25 adults are doing, shoulder to shoulder, outside the front gate of a government department at 7:30 on a morning that reveals summer to still be a good few weeks away. I don’t wonder - I’ve been learning about...

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