Greenpeace Manchester

It's our next meeting tomorrow, at the new venue of Black Sheep Coffee in St Peters Square.

Plastics, Profits and Power: How petrochemical companies are derailing the Global Plastics Treaty - Greenpeace UK Plastics, Profits & Power exposes how fossil fuel and petrochemical companies are working to derail the Global Plastics Treaty, the world’s most ambitious effort to end plastic pollution.

Negotiations for a Global Plastoc Treaty are dominated by industry lobbyist, who outnumber scientists, indigenous people and even many national delegations. Read the Greenpeace report.

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The climate crisis is here.

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Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12 August at the Black Sheep coffee house in St Peters Square. Yes, we have finally left the pub - although we might go for a drink afterwards.

Derbyshire's reservoirs are at record low levels, so we went out to film them. @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

This is what a climate crisis looks like.

‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere

The climate crisis literally has a lots of other costs too.

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Those that contributed least are suffering most in the climate crisis.

Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft join rescue effort in Greece, and firefighter among those killed in Turkey

Another day in the climate emergency.

Άλλη μια μέρα στην κλιματική κρίση.

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A map showing temperatures across Turkey, Saudi Arabia and northeast Africa on Friday 25th July 2025. Silopi, Şırnak, Turkey is marked on the map and a temperature of 50.5 Celsius is also marked. This is a new temperature record for Turkey.

Turkey recorded its highest temperature on record on Friday with 50.5°C recorded in Silopi ⚠️📈

This exceeds the previous record of 49.5°C recorded on 15th August 2023 🌡️

This extreme heat is bringing serious health impacts and giving a very high risk of wildfires 🔥

🚨BREAKING: All 10 climbers have been arrested after spending the night hanging from the Forth Road Bridge blocking INEOS - the UK’s biggest plastic polluter.

They will not be silenced and their message is clear. 👇

Forth Road Bridge closed after Greenpeace abseil protest Protesters said they were attempting to block the arrival of a tanker in a protest against Ineos.

"Greenpeace said 10 activists were taking part in the protest against the Ineos ship Independence.

The group accused the firm ... of attempting to sabotage a global plastics treaty due to be voted on by UN member states in Switzerland next month."

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Stop drilling and start paying

Extinction Rebellion supporters target Marsh office One protester said that if the insurance industry is to 'have a future at all', it needs to 'play its part in building a safer and more sustainable future for us all'

More coverage of the protest outside the office of Marsh, the insurance brokers for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

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Marsh offices targeted by climate activists over East African oil pipeline Campaign called out other major firms for backing high-emissions infrastructure

'Martin Porter of Manchester Greenpeace said oil should be left underground and questioned the role of financial intermediaries in facilitating extraction projects.

“Our message is simple: oil companies need to stop drilling and start paying”.

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Climate activists target Manchester offices of insurance broker Marsh as part of national action on climate change - About Manchester This week, supporters of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure our Survival campaign are targeting the offices of insurance companies up and down the country in a

"This week, supporters of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure our Survival campaign are targeting the offices of insurance companies up and down the country in a national wave of action, demanding that they refuse to insure destructive new fossil fuel projects"

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More than a dozen protesters from a coalition of climate action groups in Manchester gathered outside Marsh offices in Belvedere on Booth Street. Marsh acts as broker insurance for a number of large fossil fuel projects including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

The bombing of Rainbow Warrior: 40 years on Forty years ago, the attack on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and death of photographer Fernando Pereira caused international outrage.

Great page by the National Maritime Musuem on the Rainbow Warrior.

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Rainbow Warrior - Greenpeace International The Rainbow Warrior is an undisputed icon. Synonymous with breaking boundaries and fearless campaigning, she has been patrolling the world's oceans since 1978.

"We welcome you this morning in remembering Fernando Pereira, who was killed in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by French Government agents."

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Electronic billboards in #Manchester have been taken over by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social, highlighting the threats to our right to protest.

Today Manchester was also visited by www.theherds.org

@mancgreenpeace.bsky.social @mcrfoe.bsky.social

Thank you to Leah Munokoh for an excellent talk about the impact of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) on communities in Uganda. Stopping EACOP isn't just about climate change, it is a human rights issue.

Yesterday electronic billboards across Manchester displayed messages about how important our right to protest is, and how this is under threat.

Exchange Square
High Street
Market Street Central
Moseley Street
New Cathedral St
Piccadilly Gardens
Portland Street

Seen a protester on an ad today? Here’s what you need to know - Greenpeace UK The ads in Birmingham, Manchester, and London highlight a serious threat to our rights.

Electronic billboards in Manchester have been taken over by Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth and Liberty highlighting the threats to our right to protest. Locations in comments.

If you are out and about and see one, send us a photo.

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Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after tenfold rise in nuisance law arrests FoI requests also reveal that since 2019 less than 3% of those held under law in London were prosecuted

"Areeba Hamid of Greenpeace UK, said: “The fact that police are routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with amounts to an abuse of their powers and an assault on the right to protest."

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Talk by Leah Munokoh: Exploring environmental (in)justice along EACOP Join us for a chat with Leah Munokoh as we delve into the complexities of environmental justice surrounding the East African Crude Oil Pipel

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People displaced by Uganda oil pipeline ‘received inadequate compensation’ Many of the people displaced by Eacop project were inadequately rehoused or compensated, report says

Leah will be speakign TONIGHT at the Friends Meeting House in MANCHESTER, 6;30PM. FREE.

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Leah Munokoh, an activist from Africa, in Manchester and will be giving a free talk tomorrow evening. We have been opposing pipelines like EACOP due to their contribution to climate change, but it's also important to conside the human impact on some of the poorest people in the Global South.

Talk by Leah Munokoh: Exploring environmental (in)justice along EACOP Join us for a chat with Leah Munokoh as we delve into the complexities of environmental justice surrounding the East African Crude Oil Pipel

TOMORROW we have the unique opportunity to hear an activist from the global South speak in Manchester. Leah Munokah is from an NGO that is opposing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. It's FREE.

Please LIKE and SHARE.

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Hey all, please come to learn about Big Crude Oil, and how Leah & communities in East Africa are resisting.

Wednesday 2 July, 6.30pm
Friends meeting house, Manchester, M2 5NS.

See more here:
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