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What causes climate change?
The main cause of climate change is burning fossil fuels – such as coal, oil and gas – to produce energy and power transport.
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What are the solutions to climate change?
Climate change is happening now, and it’s the most serious threat to life on our planet. Luckily, there are plenty of solutions to climate change and they are well-understood.
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Family of a young Iraqi who died from cancer linked to gas flaring takes legal action against BP
The Iraqi youth's family takes legal action against BP due to their son's cancer-related death resulting from gas emissions from the company's oil flares.
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An eventful fortnight comes to an end at COP28
Despite what did and did not end up in the final agreement at COP28 in Dubai, meaningful climate action will only continue to become more urgent than ever.
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As we celebrate the successful oil transfer from FSO SAFER..Oil companies still have to pay and fulfil their responsibility!
Greenpeace celebrates the significant milestone in the effort to avoid a humanitarian and ecological crisis as the million-plus barrels of oil on board the decaying FSO SAFER have been safely transferred to a new vessel. While we mark this success, it is imperative to address the absence of accountability exhibited by the oil industry that…
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Greenpeace urges the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
to pressure on holding an urgent meeting to fund the FSO Safer rescue planIn a letter addressed to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Greenpeace called for coordination between member states to hold an urgent meeting for Arab foreign ministers to fund the UN plan to rescue FSO Safer, and resolve the humanitarian and environmental...
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Guidelines from Greenpeace MENA in relation to the emissions/ smoke and dust created from the Explosion at Beirut Port on August 4th 2020
The explosion that took place at the port in Beirut appeared to happen in a facility storing approximately 2750 tonnes of the chemical ammonium nitrate which is used to manufacture fertilisers and explosives.
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Makkah ranks as 2nd most polluted provinces in the world
Greenpeace revealed today the results of a global analysis, using satellite data collected by NASA identifying the world’s worst sources of sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, an irritant gas known to affect human health and one of the main pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide.
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Greenpeace reveals 8 Middle-Eastern cities among most polluted in the world
Groundbreaking analysis of new satellite data by Greenpeace for the period of June 1 to August 31 reveals that several Middle Eastern cities feature in the most polluted cities in the world in terms of NO2 air pollution ranking.