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COP28: A Business Revolution for Climate Action
COP28, taking place in Dubai later this month, is set to be the largest climate summit ever. This COP represents a critical opportunity for world leaders to show the political courage that is needed to fairly and equitably end the age of fossil fuels and move towards a more sustainable and just future.
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Learn About Plastic Pollution: Why we need a strong Global Plastics Treaty
Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, but a strong Global Plastics Treaty must bring an end to it – from production to disposal.
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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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UN operation to make safe Big Oil-abandoned FSO SAFER begins
The hazardous operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying FSO SAFER supertanker off Yemen’s coast has commenced after years of delay.
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BREAKING: Shell threatens Greenpeace protestors with jail and fines:
But legal tactics fail as Greenpeace sends second boat and more climbersShell 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].
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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…
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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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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…
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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...
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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.