Successes

Our first ever campaign, launched with the founding of Greenpeace in 1971, ultimately resulted in a global ban of nuclear weapons testing. Since then, we’ve played a pivotal role in a number of successes on the way to a greener, juster and more peaceful world, including:

- the adoption of a ban on toxic waste exports to less developed countries
- a moratorium on commercial whaling
- a United Nations convention providing for better management of world fisheries
- a Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
- a 50-year moratorium on mineral exploitation in Antarctica
- bans on the dumping at sea of radioactive and industrial waste and disused oil installations and
- an end to large-scale driftnet fishing on the high-seas.

Below are just a few of the positive environmental changes that Greenpeace has helped to bring about in the last few years (for a more comprehensive list, have a browse through our history). Every one of these successes was made possible by the generous financial help of our supporters.

Heathrow third runway cancelled: we won!

Posted by jossc - 13 May 2010 at 11:20am - Comments

by-nc. Credit: John Cobb / Greenpeace

Handing in the Airplot deed at No 10 this morning

Fantastic news - climate-wrecking plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been axed.

The Cameron/Clegg government confirmed yesterday evening that it will not only scrap the third runway at Heathrow, but also refuse additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted. So all our Airplot campaigning has finally won out - and a huge thank you is due to all you Airplotters, and everyone who's written to their MP or taken part in one of the many protests demanding that the plan be shelved.

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A defining moment for the palm oil industry as Unilever breaks link with forest destruction?

Posted by ianduff - 11 December 2009 at 2:34pm - Comments

As world leaders line up in Copenhagen to agree a new climate treaty, we've also been working hard to secure a result that will have a positive impact on the global climate - by protecting Indonesia's forests.

Today we're publicly releasing new evidence that Sinar Mas, Indonesia’s biggest palm oil producer, has been persistently engaging in widespread illegal deforestation and peatland clearance. We presented presented the evidence in this dossier to one of their biggest customers, the giant Unilever corporation. Now Unilever has decided to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas.

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You actually helped stop deforestation in the Amazon. Good work.

Posted by christian - 16 October 2009 at 10:51am - Comments

Ever feel powerless? Worried that the problem is too big? Worried that you can't have an impact?

(Timberland are a big shoe company who, after being told to sort out their supply chain by you lot, helped us put pressure on big cattle companies to stop their businesses destroying the Amazon rainforest. This guy is their CEO.)

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Another amazing success in our Amazon cattle campaign

Posted by christian - 5 October 2009 at 5:32pm - Comments

Cattle ranched on deforested areas of the Amazon. There's going to be less of this, thanks to you

In what our executive director is calling "a significant victory in the fight to save the Amazon," four of the largest cattle companies in the world are joining forces to ban the purchase of cattle from areas of cleared rainforest in Brazil.

This success is the culmination of our Slaughtering The Amazon campaign, which began back in June. The report which launched the campaign showed that cattle ranching is the single biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon, and that four-fifths of the areas that have been deforested now have cattle on them.

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Kleenex clean up their act over ancient forests

Posted by christian - 5 August 2009 at 3:48pm - Comments

Kimberley Clark victory

Over the past five years, our Kleercut campaign has pressured Kimberly-Clark, (the makers of Kleenex tissues) to help save Canada's Boreal forest.

Today, in what can only be described as 'a tremendous victory for ancient forests' the company has announced a new policy that places it among the industry leaders in sustainability, and which brings the Kleercut campaign to a successful completion.

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