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Take Plastic Free July one step further this year: hold the real polluters accountable
Reducing plastic waste in our everyday lives is important, but it’s time to hold the real polluters accountable.
Lisa Ramsden • 4 min read -
Winning a Cannes Lions made me a climate criminal. So I crashed the stage to hand it back
I came back to the Cannes Lions Festival as a Greenpeace activist to return the prizes I won working for airlines and car companies
Gustav Martner • 3 min read -
The Amazon We Need expedition
The Amazon is an ancient forest, home to incredible animals and unknown species. Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and environmental activists are among those who are working to protect it amid…
Rosana Villar • 5 min read -
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 -
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
Rosario Coll • 6 min read -
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 -
7 ways Gen-Z (and you) can get involved in climate action now
The system is deeply unjust. Those impacted first and worst by ecological crisis have done least to cause it. Here is what the youth can do about it.