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Panel : What is a Green Recovery anyway?
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It means keeping oil and gas in the ground to turn off the plastic tap, it means big brands switching to refill and reuse systems, it means working in solidarity with frontline communities, and it means a better air and climate.
The negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty have already started, with the goal of completing the process by the end of 2024. The future treaty has a huge potential to stand up to the vested interests of big oil and put the world on a path towards a plastic-free future but it will be up to us to make sure that it delivers on its promises.
We won a Global Oceans Treaty. Together, we can send a clear message to the Canadian government and demand they negotiate the strong Global Plastics Treaty we need to end planet plastic.
Sign up now! https://act.gp/3Vsx6d6
Deep sea mining is an emerging extractive industry seeking to use gigantic machines to scoop, dredge and cut mineral deposits from the ocean’s deep seabed.
This could have devastating consequences for the unique creatures that rely on these delicate habitats. The extraction of mineral-rich nodules, which take millions of years to form, could permanently disrupt the homes of animals tied to these ecosystems.
For example, the polymetallic (sometimes called ‘manganese’) nodules on the soft sediments in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) play a very important role. They provide hard-substrate habitat for immobile animals, such as corals and sponges, which in turn provide habitat for other animals. A famous example for such highly specialized associations is the deep sea ghost octopus (nicknamed ‘Casper’): it wasn’t until recently, that scientists discovered that these nodules function as breeding grounds for deep-sea ghost octopuses which lay their eggs on sponges that only grow on these nodules and then guard them, likely for years before hatching. Without these polymetallic nodules, the sponges would not be able to grow in the soft sediments – and without sponges ‘Casper’ the ghost octopus would not find a place to lay eggs and reproduce.
Nodule collection will remove the habitat of deep-sea fauna, and because the nodules take millions of years to form, the removal of habitat may effectively be permanent. It is unlikely that the deep-sea ecosystems would ever fully recover after Deep Sea Mining activity.
Mining activity in the deep sea is likely to have far-reaching consequences beyond the mining area. Nodule collecting will remove the surface layers of the deep-sea sediment (the top 15-20 cm) during the process of nodule collection. It could cause highly damaging light and noise pollution in the dark and quiet environment of the deep sea, sediment suspension from remotely operated vehicles, and sediment plumes from dispersal of mining tailings when waste material is returned to the ocean in the water column. The plume may persist for hundreds of kilometres and could impact respiration and chemical sensing in marine species. Sediment suspended as a result of mining machinery movement and deposition of mine tailings may smother nodules and seabed communities.
The impacts of mining the deep sea could also seriously affect the fish populations that provide food and livelihoods for many Pacific communities, who are Indigenous Peoples. It is impossible to have Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) by Indigenous Peoples for mining activities when the impacts of these activities are subject to large uncertainties and gaps in knowledge about deep sea ecosystem functioning.
Furthermore, the deep ocean helps to regulate Earth’s climate by absorbing and storing over 90% of the excess heat and approximately 38% of the carbon dioxide generated by humanity. Marine animals, from fish to whales to microbes, play a major role in storing and transporting carbon from the surface to the seafloor. And the seafloor itself is also the world’s largest pool of sediment/soil carbon stocks, with 75% of them stored in the sediments of the deep ocean.
Without these deep-ocean carbon sinks and fluxes, climate change would have already rendered our planet unlivable.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to STOP Deep Sea Mining before it starts. Join the movement: https://act.gp/3UebZLh
#StopDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOcean #DeepSea
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Written, directed and edited by Carmel Whittle, this film is about rethinking nature protection: why we should and how we can do this. The narrator describes the basis for this rethinking: we are nature and not separate from nature. Therefore taking care of nature is taking care of ourselves. She teaches us the Seven Grandfather Teachings as a profound way of bringing this understanding into our lives – only truly thriving as the environment thrives. Doing the right thing requires that we care for, nurture, and heal every element of our environments: the air, waters, rock, plants, trees and all creatures. This way of thinking is rising in the world today, and from youth to elder the understanding is growing. Please listen to these teachings, and to nature.
Learn more about Carmel's vision and messages behind this film at [GP LINK].
Check out Carmel's work at: www.carmelwhittle.com
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Elles prétendent être déterminées à lutter contre les changements climatiques, mais ce qu’elles sont vraiment déterminées à faire, est de remplir les poches de leurs actionnaires avec les profits de l’industrie des combustibles fossiles.
Si les banques ne disent pas la vérité, nous le dirons pour elles, dans le même jargon publicitaire d’entreprise dont elles ne peuvent clairement pas se lasser : peut-être qu’elles comprendront mieux si c’est emballé dans leur propre style!
Il est temps pour les 5 grandes banques de joindre le geste à la parole. Si elles affirment à juste titre qu’une action environnementale urgente est nécessaire pour protéger notre avenir collectif, elles doivent désinvestir des combustibles fossiles.
Signez la pétition → https://act.gp/3qS925t
#BanquesFossiles #NoMoreDirtyBanks
They claim to be committed to climate action, but what they’re actually committed to is lining their shareholder’s pockets with windfall profits from the fossil fuel industry.
If the banks won’t tell the truth, we’ll tell it for them, in the same jargony corporate ad-speak they clearly can’t get enough of: maybe they’ll understand it better if it’s packaged in their own language!
It’s time for the Big 5 to put their money where their mouth is. If they rightly state that urgent environmental action is needed to protect our collective future, they must divest from fossil fuels.
Sign the petition here → https://act.gp/3JWvT7f
#FossilBanks #NoMoreDirtyBanks
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Take action: greenpeace.ca/act
Shortly after B.C. 's record-breaking heatwave that hit a scorching 49.6ºC, Lytton and the surrounding areas experienced uncontrollable, fast-moving wildfires. Families were separated, homes and businesses were burned to the ground and lives were lost.
Despite the devastation and hardship, fire survivors are speaking out. They want those funding fossil fuels to hear their message – their communities are still here, and they want governing and financial institutions to put their money where their mouth is: End fossil fuel financing, keep it in the ground!
Please amplify their voices online by sharing the videos, and by taking action to end fossil fuel financing!
Tell Canada's #FossilBanks to STOP funding fossil fuels and keep it in the ground: greenpeace.org/canada/en
#KeepItInTheGround
Shortly after B.C. 's record-breaking heatwave that hit a scorching 49.6ºC, Lytton and the surrounding areas experienced uncontrollable, fast-moving wildfires. Families were separated, homes and businesses were burned to the ground and lives were lost.
Despite the devastation and hardship, fire survivors are speaking out. They want those funding fossil fuels to hear their message – their communities are still here, and they want governing and financial institutions to put their money where their mouth is: End fossil fuel financing, keep it in the ground!
Please amplify their voices online by sharing the videos, and by taking action to end fossil fuel financing!
Tell Canada's #FossilBanks to STOP funding fossil fuels and keep it in the ground: greenpeace.org/canada/en
#KeepItInTheGround
Shortly after B.C. 's record-breaking heatwave that hit a scorching 49.6ºC, Lytton, a close-knit community of approximately 250 people, burned to the ground within 15 minutes of the fires coming in over the mountains. Families were separated, homes and businesses were burned to the ground and lives were lost.
Despite the devastation and hardship, fire survivors are speaking out. They want those funding fossil fuels to hear their message – Lytton is still here, and they want governing and financial institutions to put their money where their mouth is. End fossil fuel financing, keep it in the ground!
Please amplify their voices online by sharing the videos, and taking action to end fossil fuel financing!
Tell Canada's #FossilBanks to STOP funding fossil fuels and keep it in the ground: greenpeace.org/canada/en
#KeepItInTheGround
Rejoignez-nous : greenpeace.org/canada/fr/agir
Greenpeace staff and volunteers joined the march in Toronto with a fabulous circular/parachute banner going after Canadian banks that continue to fuel the climate crisis through investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Video Edited by:
Sidney Leeder @sidneyleeder
Walter Woodman @wwwaltermelon
Director of Photography: Ethan Eng
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Video Edited by: Sidney Leeder
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We wanted to remind everyone that PRIDE is, has always been, and will always be PROTEST
Video Edited by: Sidney Leeder and Walter Woodman
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Director of Photography: Ethan Eng
300 drones lumineux pilotés par des activistes ont formé dans le ciel des animaux emblématiques afin de livrer un message : arrêtez l’extinction, agissez maintenant.
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But our global oceans are under unprecedented pressure — from pollution, industrial fishing and climate breakdown. And this incredible place is no exception.
This year, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise voyaged to the Saya de Malha Bank with an international team of scientists, to map and research the wildlife that lives and breeds here.
With the help of binoculars, drones and underwater cameras and microphones, the team were looking for whales, sharks, seabirds and turtles.
The scientists also collected water samples for environmental DNA monitoring — tracing fish, sharks and whales by the skin, poo, scales and other stuff they leave behind as they swim through the ocean.
All of this information helps scientists to understand the complex balance of this unique place, which is so far from land that very few research teams have ever studied the area. It also shines a spotlight on the threats that our oceans face, and shows governments why they must do more to protect our global oceans.
There are so many areas of our ocean which we know so little about. Scientific research is vital to learn more about these places and the marine life that call them home.
With the threats to our oceans increasing, the more we know about the workings of the deep blue, the better we are able to protect them, and the stronger the pressure is on governments around the world to take action.
We’re calling on more countries to pledge to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 and join the 50+ nations that are already on board (including, as of last year, Canada).
JOIN THE CAMPAIGN:
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WHY PROTECT 30% OF GLOBAL OCEANS BY 2030?
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Ask the Big Brands to switch to refill & reuse -- https://act.gp/2Q89SeI
In 2020, and for the third year in a row, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Pepsi have been named the biggest corporate plastic polluters in the world.
Masters in the art of greenwashing, these brands promise us year after year that they will act on plastic pollution, without ever reaching their reduction targets. Worse, by working hand-in-hand with the fossil fuel industry to keep plastic production afloat, they are fueling the climate crisis.
It's time for these billionaire companies to put their money where their mouths are Demand that Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé abandon disposable plastics and invest in refillable and reusable packaging solutions! -- https://act.gp/2QbblRt
Video by Daniel Bird
Music performed by the London Community Gospel Choir
Les grandes marques veulent vous faire croire qu'elles prennent des mesures pour réduire l'usage du plastique jetable, mais elles travaillent en fait main dans la main avec les grands groupes pétroliers pour en produire toujours plus avec des effets dévastateurs sur notre santé, notre planète et nos communautés.
Avec votre aide, nous pouvons tous parler en faveur de vraies solutions.
Partagez cette vidéo et signez notre pétition en grand nombre pour faire passer le message aux grandes marques et exiger des innovations en faveur d'emballages rechargeables et réutilisables! 👉 https://act.gp/39RnTEM
These brands, such as Tim Hortons or Starbucks, would prefer we didn't know their cups are being sent to landfills. But the truth is they are not being recycled. Convenience at the cost of the environment is becoming less, and less convenient.
'Hot cup of Garbage'
Directed by: Mark D. Harris
Produced by: Dylan Liedtke
Cinematography by: Daniel Felicio and Mark D. Harris
Sound by: Conor Nishimura
Edited by: Matthew Takatsch
Associate Producer: Allisha Worsdell
Music by: Ryan Macmillan
This film was funded by Humber College and made by students in the Film & Television Production Program.
In this film, Greenpeace visits families that bought their homes in small villages decades ago — when the Danish countryside was home to many family farms rearing small herds of livestock. But times have changed and they now find themselves surrounded by large industrial pig factories, which ruin their lives. Their houses are impossible to sell. Their social life has gone out of the window due to the unrelenting stench seeping out of the factories.
Over 200 chemical substances are emitted from the stables and it is making the neighbours sick, with numerous peer reviewed studies backing up these claims that there is an increased risk of contracting respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea, skin diseases, and headaches.
For too long, national governments have ignored the locals. Now is the time to hear their stories.
C’est vrai. Les banques fossiles du Canada alimentent la crise climatique avec votre argent durement gagné.
Les cinq grandes banques canadiennes au se classent toutes parmi les 25 premières institutions qui financent les combustibles fossiles dans le monde. Entre 2016 et 2019, voici ce que les cinq grandes banques canadiennes ont versé aux entreprises du secteur des énergies fossiles :
RBC - 140 milliards de dollars
TD - 103 milliards de dollars
Banque Scotia - 97 milliards de dollars
BMO Groupe financier - 82 milliards de dollars
CIBC -57 milliards de dollars
Dites à ces banques qu’en 2021, il est inacceptable de continuer à financer la #CriseClimatique. AJOUTEZ VOTRE NOM: https://act.gp/3pNUBMc
That’s right. Canada’s Fossil Banks are fuelling the climate crisis with your hard earned cash.
Canada's "Big Five" are all within the top 25 fossil fuel financiers in the world. Between 2016-2019, here's what Canada's top 5 #FossilBanks dumped into the hands of fossil fuel corporations:
RBC - $140 Billion
TD - $103 Billion
Scotiabank - $97 Billion
BMO Financial Group - $82 Billion
CIBC -$57 Billion
Send these banks a message: in 2021, it's unacceptable to continue funding the #ClimateCrisis. ADD YOUR VOICE: https://act.gp/3svuWcX
Vous avez contribué à changer les choses partout dans le monde. Merci. Continuons le bon travail en 2021!
Agir: http://greenpeace.ca/agir
All around the world, you made an impact. And you did all of this, because you know that every single action makes a difference. Because you are Greenpeace. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Now let’s keep up the momentum for 2021!
Take action: greenpeace.ca/act
Signez la pétition: https://act.gp/3mahI2a
Take action to protect the Amazon: https://act.gp/3kwWF9X.
Pour en savoir plus, consultez le guide : act.gp/cafezerodechet
#zerodechet #Cafézérodéchet #JeVeuxDuRéutilisable
As part of this expedition, we also supported the world’s most northerly climate strike, alongside environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig from the UK. Check out the ‘Wake Up Call’ video of youth climate activists including Anne Olli, vice president of the Saami youth organisation Suoma Sámi Nuorat, that Greenpeace projected onto the face of the Esmarkbreen Glacier in Svalbard’s Ymerbukta Bay.
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L’équipage du navire Arctic Sunrise a observé le recul de la banquise de l’Arctique de ses propres yeux. L’étendue des glaces de mer – un indice climatique que la NASA considère comme l’un des « signes vitaux de la planète » – a atteint son deuxième minimum annuel le plus bas en 40 ans de relevés officiels. Les communautés riveraines, y compris les Samis et les autres communautés autochtones de la région, subissent de plein fouet les effets du réchauffement climatique et de la fonte des glaces.
Dans le cadre de cette expédition, nous avons également soutenu la grève pour le climat la plus septentrionale aux côtés de la militante écologiste britannique Mya-Rose Craig. Pour en savoir plus, visionnez la vidéo Wake Up Call que nous avons projetée sur le glacier Esmark au Svalbard, et dans lequel figurent des activistes comme Anne Olli, vice-présidente de l’organisation jeunesse Suoma Sámi Nuorat.
Pour en connaître plus sur Robert Michaud et le travail du GREMM : baleinesendirect.org/decouvrir/la-recherche-sur-les-baleines/les-chercheurs/robert-michaud/;
Pour en savoir plus sur le projet, consulter notre plus récent blogue : greenpeace.org/canada/fr/histoires/41367/pourquoi-il-faut-dire-gnlnonmerci-avant-le-14-septembre/;
Pour joindre votre voix au mouvement et dire haut et fort #GNLNonMerci c’est par ici : non-gnl-quebec.com/greenpeace/;
Et pour consulter la page du GREMM : facebook.com/GREMM1985/.
Pour en savoir plus, consultez le guide : https://act.gp/cafezerodechet
Dans ce troisième et dernier épisode, l’actrice brésilienne Alice Braga explique pourquoi les forêts sont essentielles à notre survie, et pourquoi leur protection est indispensable à la lutte aux changements climatiques. Notre système agroalimentaire est brisé, mais nous pouvons le transformer afin de régénérer nos collectivités et l’environnement qui nous entoure. Ce n’est qu’un début!
Bon visionnement! Partagez cette vidéo sans hésiter. Exigez un système alimentaire local et résilient: https://act.gp/2E41Y0h
Dans ce second épisode, l’actrice brésilienne Alice Braga explique comment certaines des compagnies les plus puissantes de la planète ravagent les forêts au détriment des collectivités locales, de la biodiversité et du climat.
Partagez cette vidéo sans hésiter. Exigez un système alimentaire local et résilient: https://act.gp/3akc60P
Dans cette série de vidéos, l’actrice brésilienne Alice Braga se penche sur le lien entre les aliments que nous consommons, la crise du climat et la destruction d’écosystèmes tels que les forêts, pour ensuite parler de solutions durables.
Bon visionnement! Partagez cette vidéo sans hésiter. Exigez un système alimentaire local et résilient: https://act.gp/2E41Y0h


