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Attack on ESG highlights need to regulate banks on climate finance: report
A new report from Greenpeace Canada shows how the fossil fuel industry-backed assault on banks’ climate commitments has only highlighted the urgent need for governments to step in and regulate the financial sector - in 2022, the five biggest Canadian banks provided 20.4 percent of funding that went to fossil fuels from the 60 largest…
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Giant octopus lights up island in Ottawa, urging Canada to oppose deep sea mining
Greenpeace activists and staff created a 48 by 30 foot octopus light installation on Maple Island near the federal Global Affairs buildings to urge Minister Melanie Joly to say no to deep sea mining in international waters.
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INC2 Reaction: Global Plastics Treaty must reduce plastic production — or it will fail
Talks for a Global Plastics Treaty in Paris concluded today.
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The Greenpeace Ship “Arctic Sunrise” arrives in Mexico to save the Veracruz reefs from a massive gas pipeline
Greenpeace Mexico announced the arrival of the Arctic Sunrise at a press conference today in the port of Veracruz in Mexico. The ship will remain in Mexican waters from May 13th to June 5th to conduct research on the Veracruz reefs and launch its campaign Mar adentro, mar afuera (“The open sea - the sea…
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Reaction to Minister Guilbeault’s declaration on new biodiversity law
Today, at a press conference in advance of the National Biodiversity Symposium, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault affirmed his commitment to table biodiversity legislation before Parliament in late 2023 or early 2024 at the latest.
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Greenpeace Canada complaint spurs formal inquiry into Pathways Alliance ad campaign
TORONTO – The Competition Bureau has announced that it will launch an official investigation into the marketing practices of the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of the six largest oil sands…
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Greenpeace Victory: Defamation Lawsuit Filed by Resolute Forest Products Dismissed in the USA
This monumental victory comes almost ten years after logging giant Resolute launched a series of lawsuits to silence Greenpeace Canada, Greenpeace USA, individual activists and its own independent auditors over concerns with its operations in the boreal forest and its impact on dwindling woodland caribou herds.
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Greenpeace calls for Imperial Oil to be charged over Kearl spill, projects message on Supreme Court
Greenpeace Canada projected a message on the walls of the Supreme Court of Canada, calling for the federal government to charge Imperial Oil in connection with the leaks and a spill at a tailings pond at its Kearl Oil sands operation.
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Nouveau rapport : RBC devient le numéro un mondial des bailleurs de fonds pour les combustibles fossiles
Malgré la multiplication des incendies et des inondations, les banques canadiennes demeurent à la traîne et constituent des « bailleurs de fonds de dernier recours » pour les combustibles fossiles
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New report: RBC jumps to world’s #1 fossil fuel financier
Despite increasing fires and floods, Canadian banks are laggards and fossil fuel “lenders of last resort”