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5 steps toward a just transition: The modern fight for worker justice
For too long, we’ve been told that we must choose between a healthy planet and a stable job. This is a false choice, engineered by the same polluting elite who benefit from keeping us divided.
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Why the climate movement marches for workers’ rights
On International Worker’s Day, Greenpeace activists and volunteers joined trade union allies in the streets around the world.
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Four ways governments can protect people from the Iran war energy shock
The US and Israel’s war on Iran is driving another oil and gas price shock and pushing up the cost of living. Governments can either deepen fossil fuel dependence, or protect people and accelerate a just transition away from oil and gas. Here are four ways to choose the second path.
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In Santa Marta, governments can back clean energy, say no to war and oil and gas
As leaders prepare to gather in Santa Marta, Colombia to chart a course away from fossil fuels, the world is being reminded, again, of the cost of coal, oil and gas dependence.
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Activists show Trump figure vomiting oil, call for ‘No oil, No war’ ahead of Santa Marta fossil fuel phase out meeting
Greenpeace Spain activists displayed a giant image of US President Trump vomiting oil alongside a banner in Madrid that read “NO OIL, NO WAR” to demand an urgent phase-out of fossil fuels amid the current energy supply crisis.
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How the war on Iran exposes the link between fossil fuels, plastics, and price shocks
The US-Israel war on Iran is a human and environmental crisis, but it also exposes how deeply plastics depend on fossil fuels. As oil and petrochemical supply chains are disrupted, prices rise and corporations push more extraction, making the case for reuse, renewables and a strong Global Plastics Treaty even clearer.
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9 ways you can recover from, or prevent, activist burnout
If we allow ourselves to become completely broken, we can no longer be the activists we want to be in the first place.
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We’re taking a Big Oil bully to court
Greenpeace International is taking Big Oil bully Energy Transfer to court in Amsterdam, using EU anti-SLAPP rules to push back against abusive lawsuits meant to silence climate activism and Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We stand firm against corporate intimidation and for people’s right to speak out.
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A message from Lebanon: The Israeli Government’s impunity will not end without action
Governments must hold the Israeli government accountable under international law, impose arms embargoes and meaningful sanctions that create genuine political and economic consequences.
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I worked with survivors of gender-based violence. The link between women, power and environmental extraction is undeniable
When we speak of the Earth, we instinctively gender it as “she”. That very feminisation makes it easier for people to justify that she is ours for the taking.