Protecting The Environment
What you can do
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UN Climate Change Conference – COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye
COP31 comes at the end of an exceptionally difficult year for communities across our region, many of whom are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
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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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#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 – 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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A 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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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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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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Create 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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Defending 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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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…