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Biodiversity talks leave all key issues unresolved before Montreal
Biodiversity talks left all key issues unresolved before Montreal, nearing a collective failure that requires urgent political leadership from all sides.
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Cannes Lions Awards: On board a fire truck, Greenpeace scaled festival venue to call for a ban on fossil fuel advertising
Greenpeace France activists have scaled the venue of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity to call on a fossil ads and sponsorship ban
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Indigenous leaders demand Indigenous rights respected by UN biodiversity summit
Indigenous leaders traveled this week to Nairobi to demand that the UN biodiversity summit officially recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their central roles in protecting biodiversity.
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Our pride can’t numb us from the state of the Earth
While much of the cultural produce that is LGBTQIA-centred is light and trivial, many of us are living under conditions that make us susceptible to the impacts of climate change.
Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile • 3 min read -
It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts to nature collapsing.
Irene Wabiwa Betoko • 4 min read -
We need to get it right
Let’s talk about the Amazon that we need — as an act of resistance, Let’s talk about the fight for land rights. Let’s talk about traditional cultures that respect the forest, biodiversity, science and everything that is necessary to move forward.
Carol Pasquali • 3 min read -
Farmers fight for the right to use Indigenous seeds
Farmers from around Kenya are standing up to oppose a discriminatory new law passed by the Kenyan government that restricts the exchange or sale of Indigenous seeds – “the local…
August Rick • 2 min read -
Montreal-bound biodiversity COP must recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in protecting nature
Negotiators must take advantage of this week’s Nairobi intersessional meetings to focus on the key policy issue: recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their key roles in protecting biodiversity.
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What does drought sound like: a collective artistic composition in Chile
Chile has the greatest water crisis in the entire Western Hemisphere. So Greenpeace global project, Roots, carried out a collective artistic project in Chile against the privatisation of water together with the local community
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Ultrafast fashion giant Shein takes greenwashing to a new low: charitywash
In June, Shein, the largest online-only fashion retailer in the world, announced a donation of $15m to a NGO working with textile waste workers in Ghana.
Viola Wohlgemuth • 2 min read