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Oceans cannot keep pace with changes caused by climate crisis, warns new report
Greenpeace Greece activists project a message reading: ‘Ratify The Global Ocean Treaty’, close to the Temple of Poseidon near Athens. Greenpeace Greece activists project a series of ocean protection messages…
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Permit To kill: Potential health and economic impacts from U.S. LNG export terminal permitted emissions
Research from Sierra Club and Greenpeace USA shows that permitted emissions from LNG terminals are associated with major public health costs.
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Investing In Bitcoin’s Climate Pollution
Bitcoin consumes as much electricity as entire countries, and 62% of the electricity used for Bitcoin mining globally in 2022 came from fossil fuels. Bitcoin’s energy-hungry technology has revived decommissioned…
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Forever Toxic: The science on health threats from plastic recycling
Without dramatically reducing plastic production, it will be impossible to end plastic pollution and eliminate the health threats from chemicals in plastics.
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The High Cost of Cheap Tuna: US Supermarkets, Sustainability, and Human Rights at Sea
Published: 02-13-2023 Edition: 2nd Download: PDF A net bulging with tuna and bycatch on the Ecuadorean purse seiner ‘Ocean Lady’, which was spotted by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands while using fishing aggregating devices (FADs). Around 10% of the catch generated by purse seine FAD fisheries is unwanted bycatch and includes…
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Circular Claims Fall Flat Again
A recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report projects that global plastic use and waste will nearly triple by 2060 with a meager increase in plastic recycling, resulting in a doubling of global plastic pollution. The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) estimated that the volume of plastic waste in the U.S.…
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Madness Is The Method: How Cheniere is Greenwashing its LNG With New Cargo Emissions Tags
Full Report Download English Full Report Follow the story: The initial Life-Cycle Assessment paper Our letter to the editor commenting on their paper Their reply to…
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In the Dark: How Social Media Companies’ Climate Disinformation Problem is Hidden from the Public
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has poured millions of dollars into spreading climate disinformation[1] online and offline to drive public polarization and stall action on the climate crisis. That’s why the latest UN Climate Reports say climate disinformation is a threat to climate action.
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President Biden’s Year 1 Climate Progress Report
President Biden’s first year in office resulted in some victories for our communities and the climate, but there is work that remains unfinished and most initiatives lack the ambition to meet the demands of science and justice.
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2021 Tuna Retailer Scorecard: The High Cost of Cheap Tuna
When Greenpeace USA published the first edition of Carting Away the Oceans (CATO) in 2008, not a single company out of the 16 major US retailers ranked on seafood sustainability received a passing score. Most of the companies surveyed had hardly given a thought to sustainable seafood; many had weak or non-existent policies, and commonly…
