Successes

5 Ways that People Power Helped Defeat Shell

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 5th October 2015
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Shell just announced it’s giving up on drilling for oil in the Alaskan Arctic. This is a huge victory for millions of people all around the world who opposed the oil giant’s controversial plans, which put not only the fragile Arctic ecosystem at risk, but the planet as a whole. Read More

VICTORY: 3 Years of People vs Shell

Posted by India Thorogood - 28th September 2015
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After 3 years of campaigning to stop Arctic drilling, we’ve just heard that Shell is backing out of drilling in the Alaskan Arctic. Millions of us across the world are breathing a huge sigh of relief after one hell of a fight. The global campaign against Shell’s destructive plans has… Read More

Result: Santander stops financing forest destroyer APRIL

Posted by Richard George - 26th February 2015
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Great news: Santander just pledged to stop financing the paper company APRIL. Santander has agreed that APRIL will get no more money until it stops destroying the Indonesian rainforest. After receiving thousands of queries and complaints, the bank today announced ‘Banco Santander has decided to not renew the current funding… Read More

How LEGO got awesome to #SaveTheArctic

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 9th October 2014
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We did it! LEGO has dropped Shell
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Today we got the awesome news: after a three-month campaign supported by more than a million people worldwide, LEGO has announced it will not renew its contract with Arctic destroyer Shell. This is fantastic news for LEGO fans and Arctic defenders everywhere. And it’s a huge blow to Shell’s strategy… Read More

Success! You made Nestlé drop dodgy palm oil!

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 17th May 2010

You’ll never guess what. Nestlé has only gone and agreed to our campaign demands! And you’ve made this possible. We really, seriously could not have done it without you. Now we need to move straight on to the next big player in the palm oil industry – banking giant… Read More

Dove story: how you’re helping to change Unilever’s mind on palm oil

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 1st May 2008
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Potentially good news for orang-utans – Unilever announced this morning that they’re now supporting our calls for a moratorium to protect Indonesia’s rainforests from destruction at the hands of the expanding palm oil industry. When we sent in our own ‘orang-utans’ to Unilever HQ last week to tell them that they needed to… Read More