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5 things to know about Texas and U.S. oil production
Courageous activists in the United States are at the doorstep of the global oil industry to say there is no place for business as usual in a climate emergency.…
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REACTION – Global Ocean Treaty negotiations at the UN
New York – Over 190 countries came together at the United Nations to negotiate a historic Global Ocean Treaty [1] that could help protect at least 30% of our seas…
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REACTION: Working hand in hand with First Nations
Toronto – Reacting to Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde’s call for federal party leaders in Canada to commit to work with First Nations on a national…
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From Hiroshima to now, can nuclear ever be peaceful?
On August 6 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was 8:15 in the morning, and the city was just about to start its day.…
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Deep sea mining is not the future
If you were planning to send monster machines down to a deep ocean habitat that’s full of creatures found nowhere else on Earth, you’d need a pretty good story to…
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A Day in the Life of a Greenpeace Volunteer
I was one of the people who spoke at Vancouver city hall council meeting in support of motion B5, to hold polluters accountable. Other cities around the world have been…
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[INFOGRAPHIC] What is the Green New Deal?
When over 100 groups came together to launch The Pact for a Green New Deal in May, we called for town halls to take place from coast to coast, to shape with you a shared vision of a Green New Deal for all. In less than a month, volunteers organized an astounding 150+ town halls,…
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30X30: How to protect 30% of the oceans by 2030
The report 30 × 30: Roadmap for Oceans Protection is the culmination of a year of collaboration between scientists from Greenpeace as well as York and Oxford universities [1]. To…
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The Pact for Green New Deal
The climate crisis is here. Arctic permafrost is melting, forests, towns, and Indigenous territories are burning. Climate change, pollution and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic injustices, and states of emergency…
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18 hours 17 minutes
18 hours and 17 minutes, that’s how much time it took between the Government of Canada declaring a climate emergency and the Government approving a massive new tar sands pipeline…
