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After the Swiss Federal Supreme Court rejected the filed suit, the Association of Climate Seniors takes their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
They rebuke the federal government's failure to act on climate protection and demand more effective measures. The climate action at the Court is one of the first of its kind and could become a precedent for the whole of Europe. To underline their concern, the senior citizens are travelling personally from Bern via Basel to Strasbourg.

26/11/2020

One woman tells her story of why a group of climate seniors decided to take the Swiss government to the European Court of Human Rights because their health is threatened…

Albacore tuna is stacked and weighed before being shipped for processing into canned tuna. Greenpeace is exposing out of control tuna fisheries.

Stories

#Oceans

We cannot afford fish that costs lives

21/11/2020

In the near future, World Fisheries Day will call for celebration, but for now the TRUE cost of seafood is not something we can afford.

A glacier in Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, in Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is on the final leg of the Protect the Oceans voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The almost year-long voyage is one of Greenpeace’s biggest ever expeditions and highlights the many threats facing the oceans while campaigning for a Global Ocean Treaty covering all seas outside of national waters.

Stories

#Climate #Oceans #Oil

The shipping industry is on the loose

20/11/2020

The International Maritime Organization, the UN Agency responsible for preventing pollution by ships has turned a blind eye to the climate emergency and to the call from affected communities, allowing…

18 year old Khairiyah Rahmanyah is protesting against a mega-project that would transform her seaside hometown into an industrial zone.

Stories

#Oceans

Meet Thailand’s “Daughter of the Sea” who refuses to surrender

19/11/2020

Only 18 years old, this young activist is standing up against a mega-project that would transform her seaside hometown into an industrial zone.

Ice sculpture of a globe, during a press conference at the Supreme Court.

Young Friends of the Earth Norway (Nature and Youth) and Greenpeace are taking the Norwegian government to the supreme court of Norway for opening up new oil fields in the fragile and diminishing Arctic.

Press Releases

#Oil

Norwegian Supreme Court set to rule in climate case

13/11/2020

The fate of the climate, and millions of people across the world affected by extreme weather events, hangs in the balance of every barrel of oil we either extract, or…

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