Protecting The Environment
What you can do
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From Our Forests to Our Biodiversity: Protecting What We Love
From Our Forests to Our Biodiversity: Protecting What We Love Wildfires are threatening our natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Together, we can address the climate crisis at its roots. Raging wildfires are tearing through Tunisia’s northwestern regions, destroying homes, forests, and entire livelihoods. Families have been forced to flee with nothing. Give Today. Build a Resilient…
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Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa#AirWeShare – JOIN THE MURAL MOVEMENT
Across Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia, and Morocco, Greenpeace MENA is teaming up with Phenomena & T.Durden, local artists, and frontline communities to turn walls into powerful calls for clean air. Through bold graffiti murals, the #AirWeShare campaign transforms air pollution, an invisible crisis, into visible art that sparks awareness and action. Visitors are invited to capture…
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UN Climate Change Conference – COP30 in Belém, Brazil
This year, the world’s eyes turn toward COP30 in Belém, Brazil — taking place in what is already the hottest year ever recorded. Although the Middle East and North Africa region bears only a minimal historical responsibility for global emissions compared to major industrialized nations, it ranks among the most affected by the severe consequences…
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UN Climate Change Conference – COP29
Now in its 29th year and facing a crucial moment, the UN Climate Change Conference must agree on a new climate finance package. Finance is a cornerstone of global cooperation on climate change and a central component of the Paris Agreement’s commitments. Climate justice can only be achieved when we end the root cause of…
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaA Breath of Fresh Air: Everyone deserves clean air
What comes to mind when you think of clean air? A beautiful landscape? Exercising outdoors? Picnicking in the park with loved ones or riding a bike? Submit your photo now and be a part of the change.
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaProtect what you love!
Join us on a humble journey through the magical world of Mother Nature, to the land we rely on every day for the air we breathe and the water we drink. This land is our home, our source of livelihood, and a legacy for our children and grandchildren.
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COP28
The 28th UN Climate Conference is taking place at the end of a year when we saw record temperatures, thousands of people dying in floods in Libya and Algeria and wildfires spreading across Syria, Tunisia, and Lebanon. We are in a race against the climate crisis clock and it’s accelerating fast, so world leaders need…
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#ClimateJusticeNow
The Middle East and North Africa is warming at twice the global average – impacts are being seen in communities and the natural world throughout the region.
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Climate justice for the MENA youth.
Climate change is bad for everyone, but it is making some people’s lives worse. The basic essentials for good health and well-being of our generation, food, air and water, are all being heavily affected. The current economic system that was chosen by the Global North has created the climate disaster we now face and has…
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The climate justice clock is ticking.
The MENA region is particularly impacted by the adverse effects of climate change in every possible way. Children, women, indigenous communities, properties, crops and ecosystems are daily being reduced to mere figures and stories of climate change victims. They are our sisters, our brothers, our homes, our livelihood, our serenity and our culture.
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaHave You Experienced the Impacts of Climate Change?
Since climate change is one of the most serious threats facing the Middle East and North Africa, and as part of our awareness project to combat and adapt to its impacts, we want to hear from you, and from citizens across the region who are witnessing the changes around them caused by global warming.
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Extreme Heat Waves and Wildfires: How to deal with them?
As temperatures keep rising to historic highs due to climate change, wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe in almost every region of the world. Therefore, it is necessary to spread awareness on how to prevent and deal with them. It is common knowledge that the culprit is climate change, so let us be prepared!
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FSO-SAFER: A ticking time bomb
FSO Safer is a floating oil storage and offloading vessel that is moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah . Safer was built in 1976 by the Hitachi Zosen Corporation in Japan as the oil tanker Esso Japan.
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaCreate an Antarctic Sanctuary
It would ensure a safe home for future generations of animals, and protect the waters from industrial fishing vessels, currently sucking up the tiny shrimp-like krill, on which all Antarctic life relies. The Antarctic ocean supports an abundance of incredible life: penguins, whales, fish, seals, and colossal squid.
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaDefending Our Oceans
Now we have a chance to turn things around, by putting the most vulnerable and important parts of our oceans off-limits to destructive industries. Governments at the UN are starting work on a Global Ocean Treaty that will introduce laws to protect the oceans by creating sanctuaries.
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Greenpeace Middle East and North AfricaA Million Acts of Blue
We are calling on people around the world to create a “Million Acts of Blue” — actions to push retailers, corporations and businesses to reduce single-use plastic. It is going to take commitments both large and small to tackle the scale of the current plastic pollution crisis, and we all have a role to play.…
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Fight Climate Change!
Climate change is happening. Those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis are the most at risk. That’s why a growing number of communities are taking legal action: to hold governments and fossil fuel companies accountable and to secure their rights to a stable climate and healthy environment.
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Blooming Futures Report: Supporting the UAE’s Journey Toward a Wellbeing Economy
The report, titled “Beyond Extractivism: Towards a Feminist and Just Economic Transition in Morocco and Egypt”, challenges the widely held belief that European investments create mutual benefits. Instead, it reveals how these investments in oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture in Morocco and Egypt often perpetuate unfair resource exploitation, with wealth and benefits…
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Greenpeace warns in a report: European investments in energy and agriculture may worsen environmental and social harm in the Middle East and North Africa
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice.
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Greenpeace MENA’s 2024/2025 UAE Wellbeing Economy Award
Greenpeace MENA and Ajman University are excited to announce the call for submissions for the “Wellbeing Economy Award” — 2024/2025. This Award is launched in partnership with Greenpeace MENA, Ajman University and the UAE Universities Climate Network (UCN). We collectively invite researchers, academics, professionals, and young visionaries to contribute innovative, ongoing or published research papers…
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Greenpeace MENA Award: Alternative Futures – UAE Project
Announcing the call for submissions for “the Alternative Futures – UAE” project. This visionary initiative invites researchers, academics, professionals, and young visionaries to contribute innovative already established research papers outlining alternative future scenarios addressing the challenges and opportunities in UAE’s sustainable development journey.
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Black Dust Report in Kenitra, Morocco: What’s in the Air We Breathe?
Discover what the black dust settling across Kenitra reveals about air pollution in Morocco and explore the report’s scientific findings.
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Greenpeace MENA’s new film: Global South Youth Confront Fossil Fuel Profits with Stories of Survival in Under the Sun
The film’s protagonists reflect on the pivotal impacts of the climate crisis on their communities and explain what brought them together in Lebanon in summer 2023.
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Blooming Futures Report: Supporting the UAE’s Journey Toward a Wellbeing Economy
The report, titled “Beyond Extractivism: Towards a Feminist and Just Economic Transition in Morocco and Egypt”, challenges the widely held belief that European investments create mutual benefits. Instead, it reveals how these investments in oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture in Morocco and Egypt often perpetuate unfair resource exploitation, with wealth and benefits…