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  • Powering The Future

    Our latest report, released on the eve of the BRICS summit in Durban, busts prevailing myths around green energy and reaffirms why renewables are the best option for powering South Africa.

    Greenpeace Africa 2 min read
  • Eskom has failed South Africans: it’s time for new management

    Today, we joined forces with two other environmental organisation - Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and groundWork, to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under new management.

    Greenpeace Africa 2 min read
  • Eskom Set to Accelerate Water Crisis

    Coal-fired electricity is a major threat to South Africa’s already stressed water resources – and Eskom’s new mega coal plants are set to make matters even worse, further compromising water access for the poor. Currently almost a million South African households still have no access to water.

    Greenpeace Africa 3 min read
  • The True Cost of Nuclear Energy

    Our new report highlights once again that nuclear power is a dead-end: it would lock the country into an out-dated, expensive and deadly energy future.

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Eskom: Clean Up Your Act!

    Greenpeace Africa activists used three dumper trucks to unload five tonnes of coal in front of the Eskom Megawatt Park offices, effectively blocking one of the entrances to the building with the coal.

    Greenpeace Africa 2 min read
  • Bialowieza Forest in Early Summer. © Anonymous

    Crisis for FSC in the Congo Basin?

    Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international principles and criteria for forest stewardship, or key policies and standards.

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Zuma Must Not Get Caught in a Nuclear Trap

    With the announcement of cooperation agreements having been signed between South African and French energy companies, Greenpeace reiterates its call to President Zuma not to fall into the dangerous trap of nuclear energy.

    Greenpeace Africa 1 min read
  • Primary Forest in Papua. © Ulet  Ifansasti

    Turning REDD into Green

    Can a National REDD Plan in the Democratic Republic of Congo set a new course for the protection of forests, people and global climate?

    Greenpeace Africa