All articles by Angelo Louw
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5 Reasons to Save the Okavango Delta from Oil Colonialism
Youth climate activists in the Namibian capital, together with Indigenous, environmental and human rights groups, are taking action to prevent a fossil fuel industry-driven catastrophe in the Okavango Delta
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#PlasticsTreaty: Why a global plastics treaty is essential to Africa
Policy-makers at UNEA-5.2 don’t have to look very far from where they are right now to understand why an ambitious global plastics treaty is necessary.
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#PlasticsTreaty: Stop exploiting African and other global majority countries with ‘waste colonialism’
Richer countries are scrambling to find nations in the global majority to ship their waste off to. Angelo Louw unpacks waste colonialism and the need for a strong global plastic treaty
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Wild forests are disappearing faster and faster every year. We must act now
A new study by Greenpeace mapping experts and the University of Maryland shows that we are the last generation that can still save wild forests
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Shell in South Africa: fossil fuels at full blast
Just weeks after COP26, the South African government has given Shell the go-ahead to explore for MORE oil and gas, threatening local livelihoods, marine life and the fight against climate change
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#RealZero video series shows how offsetting is the biggest book keeping trick of the century
A video series to highlight the dire consequences of falling for the world’s biggest polluters’ promises to “offset” their climate emissions hopes to inspire people to force decision-makers to take real climate action
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10 African youth climate activists changing the face of the planet
Africa causes the least climate-wrecking emissions but bears the brunt of climate disaster. Meet 10 African youth climate activists demanding decision-makers protect people from the climate crisis.