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Meat marketing: We’re not loving it
The marketing playbook used by the meat industry is no different from the one deployed by tobacco or alcohol marketeers in decades past. Isn’t it about time to regulate advertising for the well-being of the planet and apply similar restrictions to meat marketing too?
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This is what illegal mining in the Amazon looks like
Hundreds of mining rafts show the extent of the illegal activity in the Amazon region and the lack of action from the government and from law enforcement.
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‘From Crafting Headlines to Influencing them’: Greenpeace Africa Head of Communications’ Decade of Activism
“We are lucky if it takes a decade to see the change we desire – and we are doomed if we wait for tomorrow to start asking for it.” Mbong Akiy, shares her highs from 10 years with Greenpeace Africa.
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A stand against the climate crisis is a stand against gender violence
The climate crisis is fuelling gender-based violence. Environmental destruction cannot be fought without fighting sexism and the violence associated with it: they are two sides of the same coin.
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Numbers don’t lie: Amazon deforestation increased despite Brazil’s greenwashing attempt at COP26
No amount of greenwashing by the Brazilian government can obscure the truth: The Amazon is being destroyed at a historic rate.
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Will the EU finally end its complicity in global deforestation?
All eyes are on the European Commission’s announcement of their new law to cut the EU’s complicity in global forest destruction and the human rights violations that go with it.
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#RealZero video series shows how offsetting is the biggest book keeping trick of the century
A video series to highlight the dire consequences of falling for the world’s biggest polluters’ promises to “offset” their climate emissions hopes to inspire people to force decision-makers to take real climate action
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The Japanese government and the Fukushima nuclear disaster – History repeating itself?
The new government of Kishida may yet find out, as the government of Boris Yeltsin did nearly three decades ago, that you may have plans for dumping radioactive waste into the sea, but it does not mean you will be able to.
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COP26: More than expected, less than hoped
The gavel has come down at COP26, officially ending this year’s UN Conference on Climate Change. The 1.5 C goal stays alive, but much more has to be done.
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Global survey shows hardly any support for net-zero pledges with carbon offsets
Thousands of people from 60 countries answered our survey. The world wants and needs real zero emissions, not false solutions.