The Role of Greenpeace in Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment

Abstract

Greenpeace plays an active and prominent role in environmental protection, highlighting environmental issues and striving to raise awareness through mechanisms that protect the environment and promote international environmental law. The organisation seeks to change public attitudes and behaviour towards environmental protection and preservation, as well as promoting peace, by stimulating a revolution in clean and alternative energy in order to confront the greatest threat facing our planet: climate change. Additionally, Greenpeace advocates for our oceans by combatting overfishing and destructive practices, and by creating a global network of marine protected areas.