Health - Greenpeace Canada

#Health

We are a part of nature, not apart from it. Our health, and the health of everyone we love, depends on a healthy planet.

Industrial processes and fossil-fuelled energy systems are polluting the air and poisoning our world and our bodies.

We shouldn’t have to pay with our health when there are clean and healthy alternatives.

If we take a stand and advocate for sustainable, green energy sources - and a world that puts people and the planet before corporate profits - we can create a healthy future for everyone.

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#Climate #EnergySolutions #Health

COP24 ends without firm promises to raise climate action and ambition

by Loujain Kurdi 17 December, 2018

December 14, 2018 (Katowice, POLAND) – Just two months after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned we have 12 years left to save the world, COP24 ended…

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#Health #Indigenous

PRESS RELEASE: Urgent Action Needed to Ensure Indigenous Women Are Not Sterilized Without Their Consent

by Loujain Kurdi 10 December, 2018

(December 10, 2018) – Across Canada and as recently as 2017, Indigenous women report being forcibly or coercively sterilized. Some women were incorrectly told the procedure is reversible. Others were separated…

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#Consumption #Forests #Health

MEDIA ADVISORY: Order of Canada Officer Robert Bateman joins environmental organizations to push governments to act on the B.C. caribou crisis

by Jesse Firempong 18 October, 2018

VICTORIA (18 October 2018) — Order of Canada Officer, naturalist, and artist Robert Bateman will join B.C. environmental organizations in a press conference to inform the public of the provincial…