Zeebrugge, Belgium, After almost 30 hours of blockade in the Zeebrugge gas terminal, Greenpeace Belgium activists have been removed and arrested. The Greenpeace ship Witness has been towed away by authorities. The liquified gas tanker Arctic Voyager, which was approaching the Zeebrugge terminal, turned back to sea as activists were still blocking the terminal entrance. At least one other tanker headed for Zeebrugge seems to have changed course as a result of the action.[1] Activists blocked the entrance to this key European entry point for liquified gas from Russia and the US, in order to denounce Europe’s dependence on gas.

From the Witness, Lisa Göldner, Fossil Fuel Campaigner, Greenpeace Germany said: “By ending this action, law enforcement is allowing major polluting industries to continue business as usual. It’s fossil fuel companies, and their supporters, who should be held to account. But we won’t give up. Our dependence on fossil gas from Russia and the US leaves the EU vulnerable to political blackmail, while worsening extreme weather events and pollution. Today’s action may be over but our campaign against fossil gas and for the EU’s energy sovereignty through renewables will continue until the EU commits to end gas imports and phase out fossil gas.”

After 24 hours of blockade, more than 40 activists were still blocking the terminal onboard Greenpeace’s sailing boat the Witness, kayaks and liferafts – and determined to stay despite the cold, humidity and lack of sleep. The police and military took several hours to dismantle the blockade and X activists are now arrested.

As the EU discusses additional sanctions against Russia including a ban on Russian liquified gas imports, Greenpeace Belgium is calling on the EU and national governments to ban Russian liquified gas as part of their 19th sanctions package, with the aim of ending Russian gas imports completely. At the same time, they must halt new supply contracts for liquified gas from the US and commit to a fossil gas phase-out by 2035.

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Photos and videos are available in the Greenpeace Media Library.

Notes
[1] In addition to the Arctic Voyager, data from Kpler shows that, following the start of the blockade at 14h00 CEST on October 1, the Rias Baixas Knutsen, coming from the US, first changed course (October 1 at 20h18 CEST) and then changed its destination from ‘Zeebrugge’ to ‘Drifting’ (October 2 at 8h17 CEST). It is currently holding a position off the coast of La Coruña, Spain. Reuters, writing on the basis of data from LSEG, even talks of “at least three LNG-laden tankers“.

[2] Activists from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine take part in the ongoing action. See first release: Ongoing blockade against Putin’s and Trump’s gas at the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium – Greenpeace International, October 1, 2025.

Contacts:
Manon Laudy, press officer for Greenpeace’s European campaign against fossil fuels, Greenpeace Netherlands, +33 6 49 15 69 83, mlaudy@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

As Israeli forces intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla, Greenpeace calls for the Government of Israel to allow the peaceful aid mission to continue unmolested in its mission to deliver aid to Gaza.

Greenpeace calls upon Governments around the world to defend the right of their citizens to sail to Gaza unmolested through international and Palestinian waters to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.

The international community must ensure the safety of the flotilla and bring the genocide to an end.

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Contacts:

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

Zeebrugge, Belgium – More than 70 activists from 17 countries have joined Greenpeace Belgium in blockading the Zeebrugge liquified gas terminal, in protest of Europe’s dependence on gas imports from the US and Russia. As the EU discusses new sanctions against Russia and Trump keeps pushing the EU to buy more US gas, Greenpeace urges EU leaders to cut dependencies by phasing out fossil gas completely, and accelerating the transition to renewable energy.

The Zeebrugge gas terminal is the largest entry point for Russian liquified gas into the EU, and its imports of US gas continue to rise.[1] This protest takes place as the EU discusses its 19th sanctions package on Russia, including a proposal by the EU Commission to ban Russian liquified gas imports as of January 2027, and EU heads-of-state are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss the bloc’s security – in the context of Russia’s recent airspace violations.[2]

Photos and videos are available in the Greenpeace Media Library.

At the entrance of the terminal, activists installed a 10-metre-long inflatable structure, portraying Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on a gas tanker. Next to it, Greenpeace’s sailing boat the Witness displays a banner reading “They love gas, you pay the price. Stop Fossil Gas”, as activists in kayaks block the way into the terminal.[3]

From the blockade, Lisa Göldner, fossil fuel campaigner from Greenpeace Germany, said: “The EU’s reliance on Russian gas is funding the war in Ukraine and jeopardising peace and security in Europe. Gas imports from Russia must end now. But replacing Russian gas with fracked gas from the US keeps Europe trapped in dangerous dependencies. We are here today because accelerating the transition to renewable energy is no longer just an environmental imperative; it is a matter of security. The EU must break free from its fossil fuel dependency and take control of its future. This means investing in a secure and independent energy system based on 100% renewable energies and cutting energy waste.”

In a new report, Greenpeace Belgium calculates that between 2022 and 2024, the Russian company Yamal LNG, largest exporter of Russian gas to Europe, earned an estimated US$40 billion, and paid an estimated US$9.5 billion in profit tax to the Russian state.[4] An amount that the Russian state could use to buy 271,000 Shahed-type attack drones according to Greenpeace Belgium’s calculations – in March 2025, an estimated 1,000 Shahed drones were used to attack Ukraine each week. Many Europe-based companies have signed supply contracts with Yamal LNG and indirectly contributed billions to the Russian state budget between 2022 and 2024. Among them, TotalEnergies (estimated US$2.5 billion in profit tax), SEFE (US$1.45 billion) and Naturgy (US$1.25 billion) contributed significantly, according to the same report.

The report also highlights that from 2022 to June 2025, France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands spent more on liquified gas imports from Russia (€34.3 billion) than they provided in bilateral aid to Ukraine (€21.2 billion) over the same timeframe. 

Greenpeace Belgium is calling on the EU and national governments to ban Russian liquified gas as part of their 19th sanctions package, with the aim of ending Russian gas imports completely. At the same time, they must halt new supply contracts for liquefied gas from the US and commit to a fossil gas phase-out by 2035.

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Photos and videos are available in the Greenpeace Media Library.

Notes:

This action is the final stop of Greenpeace’s ‘Stop Fossil Gas’ expedition across Europe aboard the Greenpeace ships Arctic Sunrise and Witness. The ships have visited Spain, Belgium, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Denmark and Germany to spark debate about Europe’s energy system; question its dependence on fossil gas; and promote a just and fair phase-out of fossil gas – through a transition to renewable energy that allows everyone to meet their energy needs at a decent price, without harming people, the planet or the environment. Greenpeace International’s Open Letter to the EU and national governments calling for a ban on all new fossil fuel infrastructure projects and to a phase-out of gas by 2035 has already been signed by 85,000 people.

[1] According to data gathered by Greenpeace Belgium through Refinitiv tanker tracking. In addition, the EU recently pledged to purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the US over the next three years, including liquefied fracked gas, as a means to appease Trump’s threats of increasing import tariffs on EU goods.

[2] Invitation letter by President António Costa to the members of the European Council ahead of their informal meeting in Copenhagen on 1 October 2025.

[3] Activists from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine take part in the ongoing action. 

[4] The LNG trap: Europe’s Fossil Gas Dependence on Russia and the United States, Greenpeace Belgium, September 2025.

Contacts:

Manon Laudy, press officer for Greenpeace’s European campaign against fossil fuels, Greenpeace Netherlands, +33 6 49 15 69 83, mlaudy@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

As the Sumud Flotilla nears Israel’s illegally designated and enforced yellow zone demarking a maritime siege of Gaza, Greenpeace is repeating its call upon the international community to ensure the safety and success of the peaceful people’s aid mission.

Governments have lacked the humanity, courage or conviction to uphold their international obligations to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

In the face of Sumud’s courageous journey to break Israel’s illegal humanitarian siege, world leaders must now step up and meet their obligation to defend the right of their citizens to safe passage. They must defend and ensure their citizens’ right to break the siege and deliver lifesaving medical and humanitarian aid.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is a lifeline and a symbol of hope in action. It must be protected.

For almost two years, Israel’s total aid blockade by land and sea has trapped Palestinians in conditions that the UN has described as catastrophic and designated a manmade famine.

It is time to end the complicity of the international community is the Gaza genocide. People are stepping in  where leaders have turned away. All eyes must now be on Gaza. We must not look away from Gaza’s suffering.

Greenpeace demands:

• An immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to halt the assault on civilians and the environment.
• The release by Hamas of all hostages.
• The release by Israel of all illegally detained Palestinians.
• The imposition of targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo, enforced by the international community.
• The unhindered delivery of aid by the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
• An end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.

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Contacts:

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

Rome, Italy – Today, over 90 environment, development, food and agriculture groups called on governments to urgently slash agricultural emissions by supporting a ‘just transition’ away from industrial agriculture to a food system based on agroecology.[1] The open letter issued at the start of the UN’s flagship livestock conference at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome comes weeks before world leaders gather for the COP30 climate talks. Failure to act will render it impossible to restrict the global temperature rise to the 1.5°C limit or protect vital ecosystems like the Amazon.

At the conference entrance, Greenpeace Italy activists staged an intensive livestock farm complete with pink smoke to reflect rising methane emissions and sound effects to demand a just transition away from industrialised meat and dairy production. Delegates were greeted by 10 large cages containing activists dressed as cows and pigs with placards saying ‘Farms not Factories’, ‘Just Transition: Agroecology Now’ and ‘Big Meat and Dairy are Cooking the Planet.’

Shefali Sharma, Campaigner, Greenpeace International said: “Industrial agriculture is polluting water, depleting soils, razing forests and turbo-charging global warming. Yet meat and dairy giants keep pushing limited techno-fixes and false solutions while blocking the real transformation our food system needs.”

“With COP30 on the horizon, world leaders must stand up to these vested interests and act to keep us within the 1.5°C Paris limit. That means shifting agriculture toward farming that restores ecosystems and supports rural communities, and away from the extractive model that is destroying them.”

Noting the IPCC finding that food systems are responsible for up to 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions, signatories to the letter argue that ‘To meet climate, biodiversity and pollution goals and uphold human rights, we must fundamentally transform how we produce, distribute, and consume food.’[2] Signatories call on governments to ‘incentivize agricultural practices that restore ecosystems, support biodiversity, and ensure access to healthy and nutritious foods for all.’

Million Belay, General Coordinator, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)said: “There is a major push by global agribusiness and donors to intensify and industrialise African livestock and agriculture. But adopting the Global North livestock model affects both our health and the environment as it drives deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, and contaminates our lands with manure and chemicals, and antibiotic resistance through routine drug use.

“Instead, we’re working with our policymakers to champion production systems based on agroecology and Indigenous approaches that make us more climate resilient and strengthen pastoral communities and family farms.”

Teresa Anderson, Global Climate Justice Lead, ActionAid International said: “Corporate-controlled industrial agriculture is the second largest cause of climate change, and the biggest driver of deforestation. But it’s a myth that we need agrochemicals, factory farms and land grabs to feed the world. Agroecological farming methods work with nature instead of against it, cut emissions, and are more resilient to climate change impacts. Agroecology is just a climate no-brainer.

“The world’s farmers need systematic planning, training and support to ensure that food systems are fit for purpose in an era of climate change. That’s why growing demands for a ‘just transition’ are so relevant for agriculture. COP30 will be held in Belém, in the Amazon. With the world’s largest ecosystem under threat from aggressive deforestation caused by industrial agriculture, a just transition in agriculture would be a powerful and fitting outcome from COP.”

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Photos from the Greenpeace protest at the World Livestock Conference are available in the Greenpeace Media Library. Videos are also available.

Notes:

[1] Full letter and signatory list. Launched at the Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock at the Food and Agriculture Organization, the letter is signed by dozens of NGOs from around the world including Greenpeace International, ActionAid International, Oxfam International and the Africa Food Sovereignty Alliance. Scientists, farmers and citizens worldwide are invited to endorse the principles as a direct message to governments ahead of COP30 in Belem, Brasil. 

[2] The livestock sector is the single biggest cause of methane emissions, a gas reportedly responsible for about one-third of observed global warming (IPCC). The drastic reduction of the gas has been widely accepted by climate scientists as the single biggest way to slow down global warming and limit climate chaos within our lifetime (WMO). Major livestock exporters like Aotearo/New Zealand and Ireland, have been heavily criticised by scientists for ignoring scientific evidence and violating the Paris Agreement and the climate treaty’s equity principles that demand more ambitious action from rich nations. Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial farming attended the COP29 climate summit (Guardian).

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a pan-African network uniting farmer organisations, NGOs, consumer movements, faith-based groups, and civil society bodies to promote agroecology and food sovereignty. 

ActionAid International is a global federation working in more than 40 countries to advance social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. 

Contacts:

Joe Evans, Agriculture Global Comms Lead at Greenpeace UK, +44 7890 595387 / joe.evans@greenpeace.org 

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

A giant life ring in Bulgaria, an oversized bill in New York, and a massive banner in Mexico. We’ve gone supersized this week, with a selection of images from Greenpeace work around the world over the past seven days.

/ Romania and Bulgaria – 50+ Greenpeace Activists from the region gather at the border of the two countries to deliver a powerful message with a giant life ring: No New Oil and Gas Drilling in the Black Sea.

USA – At nightfall in California, Greenpeace USA projected a powerful message of purpose and defiance onto the Marin Headlands, facing the Golden Gate Bridge. The action marked 100 days into the administration’s second term and launched the global #TimeToResist campaign — a call to push back against attacks on democracy, dissent, and environmental justice from from billionaire oligarchs and corporate bullies.

USA – On the eve of NYC Climate Week, the UN General Assembly, and the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit. Greenpeace USA activists deploy a giant “Climate Polluters Bill” nearly 160 feet long — the length of an Olympic swimming pool — through midtown Manhattan, while marching in the Make Billionaires Pay March during Climate Week NYC and on the eve of the UN General Assembly and the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit.

Philippines – Scenes during the protest rally against corruption under the current Marcos Government, with Greenpeace Philippines at the Luneta Park, Manila.

Mexico – In an urgent call to the Mexican government to heed the cry for help from the Maya Forest, the communities that inhabit it, and the unique biodiversity it shelters, such as the jaguar, Greenpeace Mexico activists displayed a message that was impossible to ignore. From a height of 70 meters, from the Estela de Luz monument, nine activists from the environmental organization unfurled a 27-meter-long banner with the message “The Maya Forest is crying out. Semarnat, save it!” The climb took about two hours to reach a height where the message could be clearly seen from a distance, symbolising that this call can no longer be ignored.

USA – Greenpeace USA and allies from across the globe march down Park Ave/”Billionaires’ Row” during the Make Billionaires Pay March in New York City. The march is a part of a series of international mobilizations for climate justice happening September 19–21, entitled Draw the Line, on the eve of NYC Climate Week, the UN General Assembly, and the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit.

Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture.

To see more Greenpeace photos and videos, visit our Media Library.

Super typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, made landfall in southern China on Wednesday, 24 September, killing and injuring people as well as leaving massive destruction in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong along the way.

This super typhoon started in the western Pacific, gaining strength with the warming sea before it became a category 5 typhoon – the highest classification on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale – with wind speeds of 260 km/h.

Should extreme weather events like super typhoon Ragasa still be considered just “a natural event” when science clearly shows that human-aggravated climate warming has been and continues to add fuel to the fire? More than enough data proves that our dependence on fossil fuels is directly responsible for intensified extreme weather events. 

The few images of the super typhoon Ragasa below don’t capture the devastation in full, but they do testify that the wrath of nature has full power to destroy so much that’s dear to us unless we collectively act to make systemic changes and put people before profits.

Greenpeace Brazil has revealed that beef from cattle raised illegally on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest may have ended up on the plates of consumers all around the world after entering the supply chains of Brazilian beef giant JBS.

The new investigation focuses on trade links between JBS and Mauro Fernando Schaedler, a Brazilian agribusiness entrepreneur who owns four properties that border or partially overlap with the Pequizal do Navurôtu Indigenous Land, which is a legally protected Indigenous territory. 

The Naruvôtu are an Amazonian people who have fought for decades to have their territory legally recognised and protected. While the Pequizal do Naruvôtu Indigenous territory was identified in 2006 and finally granted full official protection by the Brazilian government in 2016, ranchers in the region have continued to contest its demarcation as Indigenous land. Among those who have attempted to discredit Naruvôtu’s claim to their territory is none other than Mauro Fernando Schaedler.

Schaedler’s farms in the Amazon currently face fines of almost half a million euros from Brazil’s government for a string of environmental offences: Schaedler has been fined a few times, since the late 2000s by the Brazilian Environmental Agency IBAMA. Most recently, in 2023, Schaedler’s farm Fazenda Três Coqueiros II received a fine and was embargoed for raising cattle without a license inside the Naruvôtu’s territory. The embargo issued by Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA affected 592 hectares of the farm within the Naruvôtu land.

However, Schaedler has managed to sell the cattle illegally raised on Naruvôtu land by transferring cattle reared on Fazenda Três Coqueiros II to another farm, a practice known as ‘cattle laundering’. Between January 2018 and November 2024, Fazenda Três Coqueiros II sent cattle to another farm, Fazenda Itapirana, which supplied cattle to two JBS slaughterhouses.

Figure 01: Cattle movements between Fazenda Três Coqueiros II, Fazenda Itapirana and JBS in Água Boa and in Barra do Garças

Organisation: Greenpeace Brazil (2025)

The JBS slaughterhouse in Água Boa (in Mato Grosso state) received cattle from Fazenda Itapirana from February 2019, until as recently as February 2025. This slaughterhouse is authorised to export to several places, including Hong Kong.

The other JBS slaughterhouse, in Barra do Garças, is approved for exports to the EU, Canada, UK and many others. Greenpeace Brazil’s investigation found out that this slaughterhouse purchased cattle from Fazenda Itapirana from 2018 and 2021 and exported meat to several European countries within that time period, according to Brazilian export data obtained via Comex Stat. 

This means that meat from Schaedler’s farm, from cattle raised illegally on Indigenous land, may well have been served to unwitting consumers across Europe and many other countries. 

It is relevant to note that the JBS slaughterhouse in Barra do Garças continues to export to Europe today, although Greenpeace Brasil has not identified data indicating that it has bought cattle from Fazenda Itapirana after July 2021. According to Brazilian export data for the first half of 2025, Europe was the second largest market for beef exports from that slaughterhouse, imported by Spain, Germany, the UK, Italy and the Netherlands. Until the landmark EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is finally implemented, the EU will have no means to ensure that meat linked to deforestation of the Amazon or land conflicts does not land on European markets.

This investigation provides just one example of how JBS and large corporations profit and expand from the absence of a comprehensive, effective and transparent control system for their supply chain, which indirectly supports environmental damage and the violation of constitutional rights and guarantees, especially the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil.

This case study demonstrates how links to the violation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights persist in the meat supply chain of JBS, potentially ending up on the plates of consumers all around the world – despite commitments by JBS and other large meatpackers to ensure traceability of their entire supply chain, and pledges by global leaders to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030.

Time and again, Big Agribusiness companies like JBS have proven unable or unwilling to protect the forest and those that call it home. We urgently need global action to defend the Amazon and hold Big Ag to account for the damage it is causing. 

With policy-makers considering whether to approve the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement, political decisions taking place in the EU right now could make the situation even worse. The EU-Mercosur deal will increase meat import quotas from Brazil to the EU without guarantee that these imports are not linked to deforestation or violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. 

European governments and parliamentarians must reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal and ensure the swift application of the EU Deforestation Regulation without further delay or dilution. 

At COP30, global leaders should commit to an action plan for forests to ensure a thriving Amazon for future generations.

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New York – Leaders of the world’s biggest polluters failed to signal they are prepared to rapidly step up action to close the 1.5°C ambition gap, either postponing or submitting lukewarm 2035 climate action plans at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in New York.

Tracy Carty, Climate Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: “Trump has tried to dismantle climate multilateralism – this Summit reaffirms its resilience. But progress must accelerate. The trajectory of new emissions targets is dangerously off track and without a serious shift, we’ll soar past 1.5°C with devastating consequences. The ambition gap won’t close itself and the time to act is now.”

“The US is absent. China and the EU have not raised each other’s ambition enough and even Australia, which is bidding to host COP31, has presented a weak target. Leaders at COP30 must now commit to stronger targets and faster action. Major emitters – especially rich developed countries – need to lead from the front.” [1] [2]

As part of the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement, concluded at COP28 in Dubai, countries agreed that global greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 60 percent by 2035, compared to 2019 levels to stay on track for the 1.5°C limit.

This is the benchmark against which the collective ambition of national climate plans (NDCs) must now be measured, but developed countries are expected to go well beyond this global average given their historical responsibility for the bulk of emissions. 

Thomas Gelin, Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace EU said: “Coming empty-handed to the UNSG’s Climate Summit is an abdication of the EU’s climate leadership. It’s a huge embarrassment and ignores Europe’s responsibility to act after enriching itself over decades through carbon pollution. Every delay and every fraction of a degree will cost people their lives, health, homes and livelihoods – the EU must urgently agree on a real climate target in line with science.”

Yao Zhe, Global Policy Advisor, Greenpeace East Asia said: “Even for those with tempered expectations, what’s presented today still falls short. This 2035 target offers little assurance to keep our planet safe, but what’s hopeful is that the actual decarbonisation of China’s economy is likely to exceed its target on paper.”

“However, business and technological advancements alone cannot get the job done. Strong and consistent policy signals are an irreplaceable catalyst. China needs to keep the door open to significantly enhancing its policy targets fairly soon. Waiting another five years will be too late.”

Carolina Pasquali, Executive Director, Greenpeace Brazil said: “Brazil now has a huge responsibility at a pivotal moment for multilateralism and half-way through this critical decade to ensure that action to address the 1.5°C ambition gap is embedded in the COP30 outcome.”

“Negotiation must turn to implementation and in Belém, at the People’s COP, the world’s people are demanding a response. As the COP30 presidency, Brazil needs to take a proactive position and ensure the urgency of the moment is seized!”

An Lambrechts, Biodiversity Politics Expert, Greenpeace International said: “The climate solution is also hugely reliant on forests and at COP30 it’s essential a decision is made to urgently progress implementation of the UNFCCC target to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. It’s clear that despite existing initiatives in many countries, national-level action alone is not enough to ensure equitable, efficient and coherent implementation.”

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Notes

1. Greenpeace Australia Pacific statement: https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/weak-climate-target-prioritises-fossil-fuel-profits-over-safety-of-our-communities/
   
2. Greenpeace East Asia statement: https://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/press/68373/greenpeace-east-asia-reaction-to-chinas-new-climate-targets/

Contacts:

Aaron Gray-Block, Climate Politics Communications Manager, Greenpeace International, aaron.gray-block@greenpeace.org

Gaby Flores, Communications Coordinator, Greenpeace International, +1 214 454 3871, cflores@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace is deeply alarmed by reports that vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla have come under attack by drones in international waters. 

The flotilla is a peaceful humanitarian mission sailing to deliver urgently needed aid to Gaza. This attempt to intimidate and endanger civilians is unacceptable and unlawful. 

Greenpeace calls on all governments to act with urgency to uphold international law and ensure the protection of the Global Sumud Flotilla with concrete steps to ensure the safe passage of all humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

The Israeli government continues to enforce a full blockade by land and sea of aid and food from international organisations, compounding an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Blocking aid and targeting those who deliver it are grave violations of international humanitarian law.

Israel’s foreign ministry has said it will not allow the aid flotilla to breach its blockade. Earlier attempts were forcefully and  illegally intercepted in international waters and prevented from reaching Gaza.

The flotilla represents global civil society acting where governments have failed: to break the siege of Gaza, uphold human dignity, and call for respect of international law. 

Greenpeace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and with the many brave individuals risking their freedom and safety aboard the flotilla. Humanitarian assistance must be respected and protected.

Greenpeace renews our call on world leaders to take concrete and immediate action in the face of the genocide being inflicted by Israel on the people of  Gaza. The international community’s ongoing failure to enforce international law leaves it culpable for Israel’s actions.

Greenpeace demands:

• An immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to halt the assault on civilians and the environment.
• The release by Hamas of all hostages.
• The release by Israel of all illegally detained Palestinians.
• The imposition of targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo, enforced by the international community.
• The unhindered delivery of aid by the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
• An end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.

Greenpeace supports a future in which Israel and Palestine live side by side in peace, within recognised borders, consistent with international law and relevant UN resolutions.

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Contacts:

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours), pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org