From Black Friday to COP30, here are a few highlights of Greenpeace work around the world in the past seven days.
🇳🇱 Netherlands – Greenpeace climbers hang a banner at the entrance of Hoog Catharijne shopping mall, beneath the iconic domed roof at Utrecht Central Station, reading “THIS YEAR, JUST NOTHING” to draw attention to the impact of overconsumption around Black Friday.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Organized by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), a huge march brought together Indigenous people and activists in the streets of Belém, the host city of COP30. Carrying the message “We Are the Answer,” the demonstration marked “Indigenous Peoples’ Day at COP30,” promoting climate debate and the defence of the rights and territories of Indigenous peoples.
🇦🇺 Australia – Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have scaled and blocked the coal ship Yangze 16, bound for the world’s largest coal port, the Port of Newcastle, during the Rising Tide People’s Blockade, deploying a banner with a message to the Australian government: “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
🇿🇦 South Africa – Greenpeace Africa activists sent message to world leaders from Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill: #TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet! Activists are gathered at the ‘We the 99’ People’s Summit ahead of the G20.
🇩🇪 Germany – Greenpeace activists protest for a change in the meat industry at the German meat congress in Mainz, away from a climate-damaging and animal-cruel, cheap-meat production.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Brazilian artivist Mundano delivered, in partnership with Greenpeace a striking art installation to demand world leaders take bold action for forests at COP30. Mundano wrote the message “COP30: Rise for Forests” with transparent ink, and used ashes taken from forest fires in the Amazon to reveal the text.
🇹🇷 Turkey – The budget discussions of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change began on 27 November. Greenpeace Türkey is calling for the budget to include measures ensuring tax and climate justice, drawing attention to the subsidies provided for fossil fuels in front of the Soma Coal Power Plant.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Organized by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), a huge march brought together Indigenous people and activists in the streets of Belém, the host city of COP30. Carrying the message “We Are the Answer,” the demonstration marked “Indigenous Peoples’ Day at COP30,” promoting climate debate and the defence of the rights and territories of Indigenous peoples.
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