Under the new law, companies are required to report and reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gases that are responsible for global warming. Ghiwa Nakat, executive director of Greenpeace MENA, called it a "progressive move".

The SUVs produced by Toyota, Volkswagen, and Hyundai-Kia have all posted sales increases of more than 150% over the past decade, meaning the companies are moving "in the opposite direction" of efforts to curb CO2 emissions, Greenpeace said. The analysis came out a day before the COP28 climate summit is...

LONDON, UK - Greenpeace slammed Britain's power grid operator on Monday after it requested the reactivation of a coal-fired power station to meet electricity demand during a heatwave. National Grid ESO has asked energy firm Uniper to fire up a coal unit of its power station in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, central England, according...

In Q1 2022, BP posted its biggest loss ever at $20.4bn.

BP in February announced that it expected to boost its profits between now and 2030 by investing more in both renewable energy and hydrocarbons, slowing the pace of its transition. Environmental group Greenpeace, which only last year was calling BP "the most ambitious" of the global majors, criticised the plans,...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Environmental groups lodged a lawsuit against the European Commission on Tuesday to challenge its definition of natural gas as a "green" energy source. In addition, one other non-governmental organization, Greenpeace, sued the EU executive separately for deciding that nuclear energy was worthy of its sustainable investment label. The legal...

Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists begin a week-long huddle in Switzerland Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming, and what to do about it. Since its creation in 1988, the IPCC - an...

Observers had warned the COP15 talks aimed at sealing a "peace pact for nature" risked collapse due to disagreement over how much the rich world should pay to protect ecosystems in developing countries.

The UN meeting, called COP15, running from December 7 - 19, bringing together nearly 5,000 delegates from 193 countries to try to finalize "a pact of peace with nature," with key goals to preserve Earth's forests, oceans and species.

The 21-country Arab group at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt "has spent most of its energy spearheading efforts to jeopardise any progress" on reducing emissions, Greenpeace said in a statement. The Arab group also strongly opposed the affirmation of 1.5C as the temperature limit.

Published only days ahead of the UN climate conference in Egypt, the report titled "Living on The Edge" said, by the end of the century, 80 percent of the densely populated cities in the Middle East and North Africa were likely to suffer from heat waves for at least 50...

Thick black smoke sometimes billows from its red-and-white chimneys, leaving a grey haze in the air above the Zouk Mikael industrial district where the toxins remain trapped by a nearby mountain chain. Zeina, aged 40, says she lost her younger sister and a cousin to pulmonary fibrosis and that two...

HELSINKI, FINLAND - Activists from environmental group Greenpeace blocked a shipment of Russian gas from unloading at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in northern Finland, the terminal owner and Greenpeace said. The activists demanded Helsinki stop importing Russian gas after Russia's President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine more than six...

After 15 years, including four prior formal sessions, negotiators have yet to reach a legally binding agreement to address the growing environmental and economic challenges involving the high seas, also known as international waters a zone which encompasses almost half the planet. Many had hoped that this fifth session, which...

The text called for nations to "revisit and strengthen" their decarbonisation plans by next year and said that limiting heating to 1.5C "requires meaningful and effective action by all parties in this critical decade".

Greenpeace investigation finds "shocking" images of waste dumped along beaches across Adana city Turkey has been importing more plastic waste than any other country, 30% from the UK alone The Turkish government has banned the importation of most types of plastic waste after an investigation by Greenpeace revealed improper dumping...