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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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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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How is your government responding to the war on Iran and the oil price shock?
We analysed 37 government responses introduced since 28 February 2026 to the Iran war oil shock. Many risk deepening the fossil fuel dependence that caused the crisis in the first place.
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Iran war and food prices: How Big Ag profits from the crisis
History shows that for big agribusiness, a global crisis is less of a disaster and more of a strategic opportunity. We are about to witness a masterclass in how to parlay "food security" fears into corporate welfare and the gutting of environmental protections.
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Greenpeace transforms EU HQ into Trump Tower in call for leaders to resist Trump’s cruel agenda
The US government and its corporate lobbyists have been putting pressure on the EU to dismantle some of its environmental and social protections, such as the EU’s anti-deforestation law, the methane regulation, and the digital tax.
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The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment
The environmental impacts of the war on Iran and Lebanon illustrate again that war does not only kill people and destroy homes. It also damages the systems that make life possible. Water, climate, biodiversity are all harmed.
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Greenpeace response to Israeli military escalation in Lebanon
Greenpeace strongly condemns the invasion of Lebanon by Israeli forces, and calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities to protect people and the environment.