The Latest Breaking News from Greenpeace

As the Cop27 climate summit starts this weekend in Egypt, French President Emmanuel Macron has invited large French companies for a meeting to encourage them to accelerate the reduction of their carbon footprints. This comes as Greenpeace accuses French oil and gas company TotalEnergies of grossly underreporting its own emissions.

Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows

Petition signed by 300,000 people demands Home Office drops ‘attempt to overthrow democracy’

Villagers in the Congo basin rely on the forest for food, medicine and spiritual wellbeing, but an auction of exploration rights could threaten that way of life

Criticism of group comes as advocates warn environmentalists should not downplay concerns about Egypt’s human rights record

As a month of climate protests ends, environmentalists are split on whether disruption or moderation is best to galvanise change

Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds

The European Parliament and EU member countries have reached a deal to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars and vans by 2035

An investigation by the Guardian, NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung shows fish stocks being depleted in the north-east Atlantic – because there’s no system to agree on quotas

Plastic recycling rates continue to decline, at the same time as production is increasing, according to a Greenpeace USA report released this week. The environmental watchdog blasts as "fiction" industry claims that we have created an efficient, circular economy.

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.