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Want to foster climate action through video? Meet the EU Climate Pact Ambassador who films his work

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'Have the courage to act,' says Dima Bass, EU Climate Pact Ambassador

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The Road to Green sits down with environmental activist, Dima Bass, to learn more about his efforts and how he is inspiring others.

01/05/2024

Iran's only Asiatic cheetah cub in captivity, Pirouz, lies down at the Pardisan Park in Tehran, Iran, 2022. The conservationists were working to track Asiatic cheetahs.

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Iran frees four conservationists jailed while working to save cheetahs

The conservationists were arrested on espionage charges in 2018 while working to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah.

10/04/2024

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Birmingham mural to honour legacy of poet Benjamin Zephaniah

A tribute to poetry giant Benjamin Zephaniah will be unveiled on 14 April in the UK’s second city, Birmingham.

10/04/2024

Vivienne Westwood playing cards to go under the hammer for Greenpeace - pictured: Westwood in Germany - 2006

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Vivienne Westwood playing cards to go under the hammer for Greenpeace

The posthumous project to raise funds for Greenpeace was announced on what would have been the pioneering fashion designer’s 83rd birthday.

08/04/2024

Exploring Kurt Cobain’s overlooked social activism – 30 years since his death

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Kurt Cobain’s overlooked social activism – 30 years since his death

Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago today, and on the anniversary of his death, Euronews Culture’s David Mouriquand dwells on an often-overlooked aspect of Nirvana’s generation-spanning legacy: social activism and the importance of staying true to oneself.

05/04/2024

Teenage dreams: Meet the next generation of climate activists

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Teenage dreams: Meet the next generation of climate activists

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In this episode of the Road to Green, Euronews reporter Cyril Fourneris travels to Catalonia, Spain, to meet the civilians doing their part for the environment and encouraging others to do the same.

02/04/2024

Citizens against climate change: Every little action helps

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Citizens against climate change: Every little action helps

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Climate activists Olivia Mandle and Francisco Vera share their perspectives with Euronews.

02/04/2024

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Russian campaigns against Putin from Armenia mountains

Yuri Alekseyev believes he would ended up in prison for a long time if he had stayed in Russia.

14/03/2024

Activists wearing traditional Sami outfits sit in protest outside the entrance of Statkraft, a state-owned company that operates 80 of the wind turbines at Fosen.

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Norway and Sami people end dispute over giant onshore wind farm

The wind farm fought against by Greta Thunberg will keep operating with compensation paid to Sami reindeer herders.

07/03/2024

Tourists looking at The Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England.

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Plans to build traffic tunnel at Stonehenge to go ahead

Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against renewed plans to build a road tunnel under one of the UK's oldest monuments.

20/02/2024

Police officers carry away an activist of the 'Letzte Generation' during a climate protest in Berlin, 31 October 2023.

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German climate activists will no longer glue themselves to streets

Last Generation says its tactics will remain ‘unignorable’ with more direct confrontation of polluters.

30/01/2024

FILE - Journalists walk past Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa during a visit of the Louvre museum Tuesday, June 23, 2020.

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Activists throw soup at Mona Lisa painting in Louvre Museum

The group "Food Riposte" claimed responsibility for the 'art attack' and said the French government is breaking its climate commitments.

28/01/2024

On 11 March, the team will embark on a 250-day hike around the entirety of the Baltic Sea.

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Activists to hike 5,500 km to highlight Baltic Sea’s ‘critical state’

The Baltic Sea is one of the five most polluted seas in the world.

23/01/2024

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Meet the UK youth climate activist turned government insider

David Saddington shares his unique perspective on climate action and youth access at the World Economic Forum.

19/01/2024

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This ‘anthem for doomed youth’ could be the UK’s Christmas number one

The single has gained backing from Victoria Mary Clarke, the widow of ‘Fairytale of New York’ singer Shane MacGowan.

21/12/2023

Susan Sarandon apologizes for comments about Jews at rally

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Susan Sarandon apologizes for comments about Jews at rally

The actress says she regrets “diminishing” the long history of antisemitism in remarks at a rally last month, which led her agents to drop her.

04/12/2023

Activists in front of court as final debates begin in Hong Kong's largest security trial

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The biggest prosecution yet is underway in Hong Kong taking pro-democracy activists to trial

Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.

29/11/2023

A man looks at a swollen River Beas following heavy rains in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India.

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What would a successful COP28 look like and is it still possible?

Loss and Damage, equitable representation, justice and concrete action are top of the agenda for many attending COP28.

28/11/2023

A silent protest for climate justice and human rights at COP27 last year in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

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COP28: Activists fear surveillance and arrests at Dubai climate summit

Assurances about the ability to "peacefully assemble" and the promise of "inclusive" negotiations, are not enough to reassure activists.

24/11/2023

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is taken away by police officers during the Oily Money Out protest outside the Intercontinental Hostel in London, October 2023

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Euroviews. Will we allow peaceful marches to be classified as a crime?

From Germany and Sweden to the UK earlier this month, Greta Thunberg has now been prosecuted in a hat-trick of countries in 2023. Her court cases are indicative of governments increasingly cracking down on the right to protest, Barney Cullum writes.

23/11/2023

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'Have the courage to act,' says Dima Bass, EU Climate Pact Ambassador

Iran frees four conservationists jailed while working to save cheetahs

Birmingham mural to honour legacy of poet Benjamin Zephaniah

Vivienne Westwood playing cards to go under the hammer for Greenpeace

Kurt Cobain’s overlooked social activism – 30 years since his death

Teenage dreams: Meet the next generation of climate activists

Citizens against climate change: Every little action helps

Russian campaigns against Putin from Armenia mountains

Norway and Sami people end dispute over giant onshore wind farm

Plans to build traffic tunnel at Stonehenge to go ahead

German climate activists will no longer glue themselves to streets

Activists throw soup at Mona Lisa painting in Louvre Museum

Activists to hike 5,500 km to highlight Baltic Sea’s ‘critical state’

Meet the UK youth climate activist turned government insider

This ‘anthem for doomed youth’ could be the UK’s Christmas number one

Susan Sarandon apologizes for comments about Jews at rally

The biggest prosecution yet is underway in Hong Kong taking pro-democracy activists to trial

What would a successful COP28 look like and is it still possible?

COP28: Activists fear surveillance and arrests at Dubai climate summit

Euroviews. Will we allow peaceful marches to be classified as a crime?