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Calgary oil patch not laughing at climate lawsuits anymore
Three years ago, oil industry spokespeople scoffed when Greenpeace International sent letters to oil companies and their insurers that asked what they would do if oil companies were sued over their history of funding climate denial and opposing policies to fight climate change. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers brushed the letters off as a…
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Clyde River wins case at the Supreme Court of Canada!
They did it! Clyde River Inuit have WON their case at the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Winning on the world’s largest tuna company and what it means for the oceans
It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act!
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You’re closer than you think: Nuclear threats on the Great Lakes
Millions of Ontarians are vulnerable to a nuclear accident because of government negligence, and that includes you. With major nuclear accidents happening about once every decade internationally, you’d…
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Announcing the winners of the 2017 Greenpeace photo competition
Thank you to all the photographers that shared their best wildlife photos as part of the 2017 Greenpeace Photo Competition. The contest was a huge success — we had hundreds of entries and many of those submitted were truly fantastic images of nature, animals and wildlife.
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2017 Tuna Ranking reveals more green tuna products but not enough green tuna aisles
Our 2017 Canned Tuna Sustainability Ranking is out and with it comes more intel than ever before about the state of canned tuna aisles in well-known supermarket chains across Canada. There’s some good and some bad news to share, but overall Greenpeace is happy to report that there has been progress by ranked brands when…
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Four Tar Sands Pipelines are Heavily Financed by 26 Key Banks
Twenty-six banks are the primary sources of credit for the companies building three pipelines aiming to move Canada’s tar sands to market. Greenpeace is releasing research showing the connections between these banks and the pipelines that could facilitate the expansion of one of the world’s dirtiest energy sources.
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UPDATE: Towards #JustTuna: How a big Canadian brand is working to clean up its sourcing
Ocean Brands’ tuna commitment has been met! It’s been almost exactly a year since we posted the blog below with the news that Ocean Brands had announced bold and forward-looking commitments to be rolled out through its canned tuna supply chains by 2017. And a year later, much has changed behind Ocean’s tuna product labels.…
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More than 240 authors around the world stand with Greenpeace for free speech
Authors, journalists, poets and playwrights know that every time the right words are put to paper, or typed to a screen, our planet gets a little better. Because, without the right to express ourselves freely, we cannot make positive change.
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Share Your Photos of Coke’s Plastic Pollution
Coca-Cola is the biggest producer of plastic bottles in the world, producing over 100 billion plastic bottles every year.