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Why I presented the World Bank with a piece of charcoal
If you prepare a meal in Africa, you will probably need to burn charcoal. This results in disease, deaths and deforestation. WePlanet...

Rob De Schutter
Dec 6, 20233 min read
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WePlanet Africa leads tree planting effort in Bungoma
On Kenya’s National Tree Growing Day, our members from WePlanet Africa came together to plant hundreds of trees. WePlanet Africa, a...

Rob De Schutter
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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‘Degrowing the global economy will require accepting nuclear power’
An ardent anti-capitalist advocate of degrowth makes a passionate case for using the energy source that’s often hated by his allies. In...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 27, 20239 min read
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Why degrowth needs nuclear power (2): Energy means progress
Part 2 of the essay, ‘Degrowing the global economy will require accepting nuclear power’ . Image: evening_tao/Freepik 2. The enormous...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 27, 202311 min read
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Why degrowth needs nuclear power (3, end): When both sides are wrong
Part 3 of the essay, ‘Degrowing the global economy will require accepting nuclear power’. Once Finland's Olkiluoto-3 reactor was...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 27, 20235 min read
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Why Europe needs to stop promoting the burning of biomass
Something is wrong with our climate policies when they encourage using biomass, even when this will drastically increase greenhouse gas...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 20, 20234 min read
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WePlanet Africa’s letter to Greenpeace: ‘You are obstructing Africa’s transition from fossil fuels’
In an open letter, our member organisation in Africa asks Greenpeace to reconsider its opposition to nuclear power. Please read the full...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 17, 20233 min read
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From Zoom call to real change: The making of WePlanet Africa
How I came to learn about a young branch of European environmentalists, and decided to join them. By Patricia Nanteza With the Walk4GMOs...

Rob De Schutter
Oct 2, 20233 min read
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Give genes a chance to make agriculture more sustainable
Under the slogan Give Genes A Chance, young European scientists are campaigning for the admission of new genetic techniques in...

Rob De Schutter
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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An environmentalism of hope
Mark Lynas, one of the driving forces behind WePlanet, tells the story of WePlanet, looking back at our history and looking ahead to a...

Rob De Schutter
Sep 11, 20237 min read
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Climate scientist James Hansen: ‘The opposition to nuclear power is truly insane’
The young climate activists who run our Dear Greenpeace campaign are not the first to point out that nuclear power should be accepted by...

Rob De Schutter
Sep 5, 20238 min read
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An open letter to Greenpeace
Dear Greenpeace, You may have seen the article in The Guardian today. Or maybe the Germans saw it in Die Welt : We’re the young folks...

Rob De Schutter
Aug 29, 20231 min read
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18-year-old school striker launches legal action to defend nuclear power’s place in EU Taxonomy
Today, together with a team of young climate activists, WePlanet has launched a new campaign, Dear Greenpeace , asking one of the world's...

Rob De Schutter
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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Waarom ik eis dat Greenpeace verzet tegen kernenergie staakt
Met andere jonge klimaatactivisten wil rechtenstudent Freek van der Heide worden toegelaten in de rechtszaak die Greenpeace heeft...

Rob De Schutter
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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How can we scale up precision fermentation?
Food innovators have unlocked the keys to make animal-free proteins and fats that are biologically identical to (and just as delicious...

Rob De Schutter
Aug 16, 20237 min read
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How I overcame my radical environmentalist nihilism
Plants and insects don’t have a problem when they’re on the verge of dying out. It’s us, people, who have a problem with this. Because we...

Rob De Schutter
Aug 3, 20238 min read
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One reactor – one national park
The construction of a nuclear power plant cannot be an end in itself. Activists make a case for stricter protection and restoration of...

Rob De Schutter
Jul 26, 20233 min read
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The danger of flirting with nuclear innovation
Small, modular nuclear reactors? A molten salt reactor with thorium? All well and good, argues Marco Visscher, but praising innovation...

Rob De Schutter
Jul 23, 20234 min read
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What we need is not so much a different way of life as a different technology
The market won’t solve the climate crisis. So let’s make sure governments step up to stimulate innovation for a more sustainable world....

Rob De Schutter
Jul 12, 202313 min read
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‘We can’t afford for everyone to live our lifestyles’: A response
A close look at subtle (and not so subtle) examples of racism in energy and climate policy, by Todd Moss, founder of the Energy for...

Rob De Schutter
Jun 30, 20236 min read
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