2000s

A global treaty to eliminate persistant organic pollutants; the adoption of the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; campaigns against Star Wars and the Iraq war; Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol; Brazil protects 2 million hectares of the Amazon forest; electronics companies including Apple agree to phase out the most hazardous chemicals; the Great Bear Rainforest is saved from destruction; the High Court rules that the UK government's decision to back a programme of new nuclear power stations is unlawful; a moratorium on deforestation for new soya plantations; plans to build the Kingsnorth coal power plant are shelved after the acquittal of the Kingsnorth Six.