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#Oil

Oil has been a tremendous resource for some countries in the Middle East and North Africa and a burden to others. It has allowed producer states to leapfrog into the modern world and build strong economies while others fell into a consumption addiction for the sake of energy security.
While it has fueled progress and development, production and consumption of oil is now threatening our climate and our region’s stability.
Together we go beyond oil, and create renewable powered energy systems for a peaceful and prosperous future for all.

  • Press Release
    Oil

    BREAKING: Shell threatens Greenpeace protestors with jail and fines:
    But legal tactics fail as Greenpeace sends second boat and more climbers

    Shell has attempted to silence Greenpeace International’s peaceful occupation of its oil and gas platform at sea, by hitting the campaign group with an injunction late on Friday [FEB 3] - threatening up to two years’ jail time and fines [1].

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    February 6, 2023
  • Opinion
    Peace, Greenpeace, Oil, Climate

    COP27: Putting Justice at the Heart of Climate Action

    When climate disaster is having a disproportionately large impact on the poorer communities of the Global South, a United Nations Climate Change Conference on the frontlines of the crisis is…

    Ghiwa Nakat •
    October 21, 2022
  • Press Release
    Oil

    Greenpeace urges the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
    to pressure on holding an urgent meeting to fund the FSO Safer rescue plan

    In 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...

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    June 8, 2022
  • Story
    Oil

    Countries must step up to fully fund US$80 million FSO Safer oil tanker rescue off Yemen

    Meeting at the UN pledge conference to salvage the FSO Safer oil tanker, countries like the Netherlands, France, Finland, Germany, Qatar, Sweden, the UK and others committed a total covering only half of the required US$80 million needed to get the oil transferred from the rusting Safer currently anchored 6 km (4 miles) off the coast of Yemen to another tanker.

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    May 11, 2022
  • Story
    Oil, Climate

    It’s the waiting….waiting and hoping….

    Alarm bells have been ringing increasingly louder.   The United Nations, governments, humanitarian and environmental organisations, scientists, journalists, - all have issued dire warnings.  The dangers to human life and the environment are clear...

    Ahmad ElDroubi •
    March 15, 2022
  • Press Release
    Oceans, Oil, Climate

    FSO Safer tanker could trigger major oil disaster, study shows Barriers to undertake swift resolution are not technical but political

    Without a swift resolution, an explosion or leak from the rusting oil tanker FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen could trigger one of the biggest oil spill disasters in history.

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    January 27, 2022
  • Press Release
    Greenpeace, Oil, Climate

    COP26 end in Glasgow – Greenpeace response

    Reacting to the conclusion of COP26 in Glasgow, Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said: “It’s meek, it’s weak and the 1.5C goal is only just alive, but a signal has been sent that the era of coal is ending. And that matters

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    November 16, 2021
  • Press Release
    Renewables, Oil, Climate

    Greenpeace MENA congratulates Egypt and UAE as next climate COP hosts

    Reacting to the announcement that Egypt and the United Arab Emirates will be the next hosts of the 27th and 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) respectively, Ghiwa Nakat, executive director of Greenpeace MENA, said...

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    November 12, 2021
  • Press Release
    Oil, Climate

    Greenpeace expresses concern over KSA net zero announcement: nothing but fossil fuel propaganda ahead of COP-26

    Greenpeace MENA is concerned that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s announcement of its pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2060, lacks a serious...

    Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa •
    October 25, 2021
  • Opinion
    Climate, Renewables, Oil

    Open letter to H.E. Dr. Walid Fayad, Minister of Energy and Water

    First of all, we would like to congratulate you on assuming your new role as minister, while recognizing the immense responsibilities of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW), especially in the current circumstances: the State failing to provide electricity...

    Ghiwa Nakat •
    October 21, 2021
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