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Fossilflation: War on Iran oil shock shows why we need to replace fossil fuels with renewables
New Greenpeace International analysis shows how dependence on fossil fuels leaves household budgets exposed to volatile international markets, with price shocks feeding through into the wider economy.
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Indonesia’s protest ‘queens’ are a viral sensation. Here’s why their message on haze, climate and cost of living hits the spot
Courage and HOPE are contagious. As people protest around the globe to demand justice and a liveable planet, Greenpeace Indonesia's climbers captured the moment.
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Greenpeace disrupts NVIDIA’s CEO keynote speech at NVIDIA GTC Conference
Greenpeace Germany activists protested during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at NVIDIA GTC Conference. The activists projected “NVIDIA, clean up your dirty business” onto the stage and unrolled a banner with the same message referencing the environmental and ethical impact of the AI frenzy, enabled by the massive production of their chips for global markets.
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Greenpeace report: Ikea’s hunger for wood destroys Europe’s precious forests
Ikea says it wants to use its size to make sustainable wood sourcing the global norm. That ambition must start with a clear commitment: no wood from forests that need protection. Ikea has the power to help change an entire industry. It needs to lead by example, starting with the wood in its own furniture.
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Clearcutting Free Speech
Canada’s Great Northern Forest is an ancient forest, shaped by forces of nature and stewarded by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. Also known as Canada’s boreal forest, it has some of the last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest, is home to threatened species, and is one of the world’s largest terrestrial stores of carbon.…
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To protect forests and free speech, lend your voice (literally!)
Can you imagine a world where Greenpeace and other advocacy groups are no longer able to stand up for our forests, oceans and climate? A giant logging corporation called Resolute Forest Products is fighting to make this sinister vision a reality.
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit: How NOT to make the fashion industry more sustainable
This week, representatives from all the major brands - from fast fashion retailers like H&M, Asos and Zara, through to luxury labels like Burberry and Swarowski - are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss sustainability in the global fashion industry.
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6 ways corporate lawsuits kill free speech (and how to fight back!)
Free speech is a right. So how can a corporation possibly stop you from speaking out? Using a legal tactic called a SLAPP, corporations like the massive Canadian logging company, Resolute Forest Products, are attempting to crack down on free speech by suing their critics into submission.
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Shopping doesn’t make us happy
Do your clothes make you happy? Or, after the excitement of the shopping spree fades, does your new stuff tend to lose its in-store magic by the time it’s reached your wardrobe?
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After the Binge the Hangover
Consumers are no longer shopping because they need something. On the contrary: younger people in particular shop despite already having too much, longing for fulfillment and encouraged by social media and the ease of online shopping. However, shopping doesn’t make people happy as the excitement only provides a temporary fix.
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Restless, compulsive, unfulfilled – Greenpeace survey offers insights into fashion shoppers feelings
Hamburg, 8 May 2017 - Compulsive fashion shoppers regularly overspend on new clothes in spite of not being able to use them, with post-shopping excitement often turning into guilt after less than a day. This is an international phenomenon that is spreading around the world, according to representative surveys commissioned by Greenpeace in China, Hong…
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Nuclear power and the collapse of society
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…
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Saving Dvinsky Forest: If companies don’t act, customers will
Speaking truth to corporations has been the backbone of Greenpeace’s global forest campaign for over two decades. Putting pressure on companies buying products from forest destruction has successfully helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada, create moratoria on deforestation due to soya and cattle expansion in the Brazilian Amazon, and deliver multiple zero deforestation policies inside and…
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The beauty of West Africa’s ocean is overwhelming
Sailing across the nutrient rich waters of the West African Atlantic Ocean these past two months, I have been lucky enough to see an incredible array of wildlife. Whales, dolphins and pelicans, I have met them all in this trip.