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Chill Your Heatwave: Greenpeace offers free vegan ice cream in Montreal to expose Big Oil driving the planetary thermostat up
In the midst of an intense heat wave hitting Montreal today, Greenpeace Canada activists are out on Mont-Royal Avenue with their “Chill Your Heatwave” bike, serving free vegan ice cream to offer a refreshing perspective on these extreme temperatures. Activists highlighted the fossil fuel industry’s leading role in driving these extreme temperatures and demanded fossil…
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5 reasons to be hopeful in the fight against deep sea mining
In just a few days, another crucial International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting will start. From July 15th to August 2nd, world leaders will discuss the future of the deep ocean.
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The Metropolitan Community of Montréal’s fossil fuel ban will impact 82 municipalities
A few months ago, I told you about the City of Montréal’s plans to ban natural gas in new buildings in the Fall of 2024. And I have an exciting…
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Big Plastic and the Big Legal Fight
At a time when our oceans are filled with plastic pollution, chemicals used to make plastics are linked to serious health issues like decreased reproductive health and cancer, and scientists…
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Report: Selling hot air
Shell’s flagship carbon capture project has made over $200 million (CAD) selling emissions credits for reductions that never happened, according to a new investigative report Selling Hot Air from Greenpeace Canada. [1] The…
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Shell’s flagship carbon capture project sold $200M of ‘phantom’ emissions credits: Greenpeace report
Shell’s flagship carbon capture project has made over $200 million (CAD) selling emissions credits for reductions that never happened, according to a new investigative report Selling Hot Air from Greenpeace Canada.
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INC-4: Greenpeace hangs a banner on Mackenzie King Bridge, urging delegates to put people over plastic
Twenty-four hours before the end of the negotiations for a Plastics Treaty at the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4), Greenpeace Canada activists hung a banner on the Mackenzie King Bridge, right next to the Shaw Center, where world delegations are gathered. The fourteen meters banner read “People over polluters: Cut plastic production now!” and followed…
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INC-4: Greenpeace reacts to Minister Guilbeault undermining ambition during Plastics Treaty talks in Ottawa
In response to Minister Guilbeault declaring “a cap on plastic production may be too complicated” at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4), Sarah King, Head of Plastics & Oceans at Greenpeace Canada, said:
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INC-4: Peaceful Greenpeace activist arrested by police at the Shaw Center
One activist from Greenpeace Canada was arrested outside of the Shaw Center in Ottawa while engaged in a peaceful protest.