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Revealed: How Industry Lobbying is Reducing Nature to a Monopoly Board
From big logging, mining, agribusiness and oil interests, our findings show just how much these industries are betting on “offset” policies to excuse their pollution and keep doing business-as-usual. It's like a twisted game of real-life Monopoly.
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Why did Greenpeace put a giant inflatable owl outside Justin Trudeau’s residence?
On behalf of over 60,000 people who have asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a new federal nature law, and behalf of the 2000+ wild species in Canada which are…
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Ahead of budget, Greenpeace activists in Minister Freeland’s office demanding climate action and banking regulations
Earlier this morning, Greenpeace Canada activists entered Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s downtown Toronto office calling on the Liberal government to stop backsliding on existing climate commitments and commit to regulating Canadian fossil banks in the 2024 federal budget. As the Liberal government delays or waters down long-promised climate policies and refuses to rein in irresponsible…
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Investigation: Lobbying against Nature
Federal lobbying efforts by natural resource companies to influence nature and biodiversity policies.
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Greenpeace Canada reacts to new Copernicus data: global heating exceeding 1.5°C threshold for 12 months
Today, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union's Earth Observation Programme released new data showing that for the first time global warming has exceeded a global average of 1.5°C above the pre-industrial baseline across an entire year, from February 2023 to January 2024.
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Lobbying against Nature: Greenpeace Canada investigation reveals united industry front pushing for offsets
A new investigation released today by Greenpeace Canada reveals a united industry front pushing for federal offset policies that would allow them to pay-to-pollute, instead of urgently needed measures like strong nature protections and absolute emissions reductions.
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We called out Shell’s false claims on carbon offsets
In 2020, Shell Canada made a promise it couldn’t keep.
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Spotted at Rideau Hall: giant inflatable owl reminds Prime Minister Trudeau to pass new nature law
Greenpeace Canada inflated a 20-feet tall northern spotted owl in front of the Main Entrance Gates to Rideau Hall, Justin Trudeau’s current residence, to remind him of his government’s commitment to passing a new nature law.
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Resolution: Justice. Setting intentions for the world we want
January, 2024. By now, the average person has made a brief (or lengthy) list of goals they’d like to achieve for themselves this year. This is no uncommon phenomenon, and…
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Greenpeace reacts to Ontario government’s plans to resuscitate obsolete Pickering nuclear power plant
Ontario’s Conservative government announced today it would resuscitate plans to spend billions to rebuild and extend the lives of four reactors at the Pickering nuclear station, which sits…