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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · 13d

What’s happening at African Energy Week?! 👀

Lobbying. Deals. Greenwashing. Climate chaos dressed up as “solutions.”

Meanwhile, communities are left with the real costs.
We showed up to say: enough. #PollutersMustPay

👉 Sign the petition: act.gp/4gKc7gA

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · 14d

🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace activists are taking action at the African Energy Week in Cape Town.⁣
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They are there to present Big Oil with the big, beautiful and destructive climate bill for the damages they have caused across Africa.⁣
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#Makepolluterspay

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 27

🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace Africa activists just took action outside the Department of Forestry, Fisheries & Environment in Pretoria.

Why? Because South Africa’s toxic air is killing us.

👉Tag your favourite media house in the comments - they need to cover this.

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 14

For decades, oil giants have known their fossil fuels were wrecking the planet. Instead of changing course, they doubled down to protect their profits. Now, from the Horn of Africa’s drought to Southern Africa’s floods and West Africa’s heatwaves, we’re living with the cost of their greed.

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 14

Oil & gas corporations are fuelling deadly heatwaves, droughts, floods, and wildfires across Africa and beyond. Shell alone has caused an estimated $1.42 trillion in climate damage – yet they still plan to open 700 new oil and gas fields.

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 14

🚨 BREAKING: 1,000 LITRES OF ‘BLOOD’ SPILLS FROM SHELL PLATFORM

Greenpeace activists just installed a massive piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor onto a Shell gas platform - symbolising the damage oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 13

It’s time to flip the system. Make them pay to protect people and the planet.

✊ Add your voice 👉 act.gp/3UjY8DU

#TaxTheSuperRich #UNTC

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 13

Tax is a superpower!

It can help fix the climate crisis, protect nature and fund schools and hospitals if the super-rich pay their fair share.

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Aug 13

✊ This International Youth Day, we’re celebrating the 1,360 Greenpeace Africa volunteers who are driving real, local change.

💚 Want to know how young people are redefining climate leadership? Head to the blog and get inspired by their stories!

🔗 act.gp/4mfPHWy

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Aug 8

Countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis are forced to adopt extreme measures to adapt to a crisis that they contributed the least to, while polluting billionaires get away with trashing the planet and not paying their fair share.

#TaxTheSuperRich

Pacific island nation forced to sell passports for survival while billionaires & polluters pay nothing

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jul 26

"And that afternoon, my turn had arrived...a serene rain suddenly turned into an experience which has forever changed the way my family and I see the world—the climate crisis has reached our door."

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

That afternoon, the climate crisis knocked on my door - Greenpeace International

Floods that we usually only see on our phone and television screens are now happening to us.

www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 23

From Bezos’ $50M Venice wedding to the streets of Sevilla and now Durban, South Africa.

Billionaires party while the planet burns and we pay the price.

All 👀 are now on @CyrilRamaphosa.

🧵 Read how people are fighting back 👉 bit.ly/3GNGtBh

#TaxTheSuperRich #G20

From Bezos’ wedding to Sevilla’s streets: A global demand to tax the super-rich - Greenpeace Africa

On June 23rd, just days before Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Venice wedding, Greenpeace Italy and UK grassroots group called Everyone Hates Elon dropped a 20-meter banner in Piazza San Marco: “If you can r...

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 22

90+ private jets landed in Italy last month for Bezos’ wedding. As billionaires partied, ordinary people demanded justice!

The call to tax the super-rich is louder than ever.

Add your voice. #TaxTheSuperRich 👉 act.gp/4lsSwDk

@everyonehateselon.bsky.social

#JeffBezosWedding

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 17

🚨 BANNER DROP!

As G20 Finance Ministers meet, we showed up with a message they can’t ignore: Tax the super-rich. End financial apartheid.

✊ Join the call for a fairer financial system
✍️ Sign the petition 👉 act.gp/44yXkRC

#TaxTheSuperRich #TimeToResist #G20SA #G20SouthAfrica #BannerDrop

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 16

President Ramaphosa, this is your moment! At the G20, it’s time to lead.
✔️ New global tax rules at the UN
✔️ Fair taxation of the super-rich!
✔️ A fair financial system built for people and the planet

#TaxTheSuperRich #TimeToResist #G20SA #G20SouthAfrica

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 16

🚨 BREAKING:

As Finance Ministers of the world’s richest nations gather on African soil, people are demanding real change! Enough billionaire greed. Enough false promises. Enough delay.

Join the growing movement. Sign the petition 👉 act.gp/40k8CGN

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jul 10

🍽️ Welcome to the Ministry’s Menu

Over 40% of school water samples were found unsafe.
And the Department of Water & Sanitation is still serving silence.

👀 We’re not ordering this nonsense anymore.
📲 Use our tweet tool to call them out 👉 act.gp/4nFwqip

Hey SA Water Dept: Would YOU drink this?

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jul 8

THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED.

While floods, heatwaves, and climate and nature crises hit the rest of us, Bezos parties in Venice and Musk turns a year older and a few million richer.

This isn’t a glitch.

But people are pushing back & so should you 👉 act.gp/4ejxnsz

#TaxTheSuperRich

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 9

lmao. lol

Bezos sells $666M in Amazon stock
4h ago • 5,420 readers
Prime Day off to a slow start
3h ago • 36,109 readers

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The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · Jul 8

This Prime Day I am reminded that Jeff Bezos makes $8 million an hour off the backs of workers who have to piss in bottles in his warehouses.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 8

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jun 30

THEY ARE DESTROYING THE CLIMATE AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT.

This is the message ‪@greenpeace.es‬ activists sent at the iconic Las Setas in Seville on the first day of #FFD4.

Activists are making it clear what REAL development should look like.

#TaxTheSuperRich

Actiuon in Seville,

UN Financing for development Conference has kicked off and activists had something to say.

Tax Polluters
Tax The Super Rich
Save the planet

Activists from Greenpeace Spain today covered the iconic Setas de Sevilla monument with a massive banner, displaying the message: “They are destroying the planet. And you are paying for it.” The action marked the first day of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development Conference (FfD4).

Tax the super rich for a fair and green future

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jun 25

Together with the activist group @everyonehateselon.bsky.social, we crashed Bezos' bliss ahead of his wedding.

This isn’t about a spectacle - it’s about system change.

If he can rent Venice for his wedding, he can pay more tax.

Read more here: act.gp/3GgKcqP

#TaxTheSuperRich #EveryoneHatesElon

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jun 23

While Venice is sinking under the weight of the climate crisis, billionaires are partying like there is no tomorrow on their mega yachts.

This isn’t just about one person — it’s about changing the rules so no billionaire can dodge responsibility, anywhere.

#TaxTheSuperRich #TimeToResist

‘Everyone Hates Elon’ and Greenpeace unfold giant banner on Piazza San Marco ahead of Bezos’ wedding - Greenpeace International

Activists from the UK action group Everyone hates Elon and Greenpeace Italy unfolded a giant banner reading “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax”

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · Jun 19

🌊 The ocean had its moment at #UNOC2025 - but we’re not done yet.

1️⃣ 10 countries must ratify the #HighSeasTreaty
2️⃣ Say NO to deep sea mining at the July ISA meeting
3️⃣ August: Time for action at #PlasticsTreaty talks

The ocean is watching. Are our leaders?

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