In pictures: 2015, What a year!

Posted by Angela Glienicke — 18 December 2015 at 1:39pm - Comments
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Actress Emma Thompson and John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, join tens of thousands of people for the People's March for Climate Justice

2015 has been an eventful year as ever and these pictures can only attempt to illustrate a fraction of our campaign highlights. It's been a year of people power, whether we were campaigning outside Shell or taking to the streets during the climate conference in Paris. <--break->

<--break->Here in the UK the year kicked off with our campaign against fracking and rainforest destruction. 

Our coastal champions boat tour saw us working with small scale fishers supporting sustainable fishing.

We also had our giant polar bear Aurora outside Shell protesting with lots of supporters as well as actor Emma Thompson and singer Charlotte Church against Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic.

John West's use of unsustainable tuna brought us to Liverpool erecting a giant tuna tin.

And lots of you participated in the People's March for Climate, Justice and Jobs.

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JANUARY: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, 38 degrees and other anti-fracking organizations take part in an anti-fracking rally at Westminster.

 © Jiri Rezac/Greenpeace

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FEBRUARY: Greenpeace campaigners distribute leaflets outside Santander head office at Regents place, in a protest against the bank's funding of rainforest destruction.

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MARCH: Greenpeace's boat the Rising Tide arrives in Eastbourne Harbour on its national tour. The coastal champions boat tour supports sustainable fishing.

© Ciaran McCrickard / Greenpeace

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APRIL: Greenpeace activists have rigged a 'Save the Arctic' banner showing an Arctic Owl and containing the signatures of millions of supporters on a leg of the Polar Pioneer oil rig in the Pacific Ocean.

© Vincenzo Floramo / Greenpeace

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MAY: Greenpeace welcomes OSPAR delegates at the start of the OSPAR Coordination Group meeting, asking them to take the lead on Arctic protection on behalf of nearly seven million Arctic defenders worldwide. 

© Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace

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JUNE: Greenpeace activists install giant piece of street art outside Standard Chartered Bank HQ in London. The bank are backing a huge new coal mine in Australia and the proposed export infrastructure would require dredging the sea bed around the Great Barrier Reef – a World Heritage Site, home to humpback whales and clown fish.

© Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace

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JULY: Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, US, in an attempt to prevent the Shell-leased icebreaker, MSV Fennica from passing underneath the bridge on its way to meet Shell’s drilling fleet.

© Steve Dipaola / Greenpeace

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AUGUST: Charlotte Church performs live at Shell HQ to protest against Arctic oil drilling. The event is part of Greenpeace’s month-long run ‘Requiem for Arctic Ice’ protest,

© Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace

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SEPTEMBER: Emma Thompson joins Greenpeace UK Executive Director John Sauven to deliver a celebratory speech outside Shell’s London head offices the day after the Anglo-Dutch oil major announced it was pulling out of Arctic oil drilling.

© John Cobb / Greenpeace

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OCTOBER: A stunning two-storey sculpture is erected outside tuna company John West’s HQ to highlight the company’s destructive fishing practices and to protest against John West’s owner Thai Union’s links to human rights abuses.

© Kristian Buus / Greenpeace

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NOVEMBER: Greenpeace join tens of thousands of people for the People's March for Climate Justice and Jobs in London. 

© John Cobb / Greenpeace

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DECEMBER: As the Paris climate conference enters the closing stretch, Greenpeace activists create a solar symbol around the world-famous Paris landmark, the Arc de Triomphe, by painting the roads yellow to reveal the image of a huge shining sun.

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