Family and friends of the Arctic 30 joined demonstrations around the world demanding their release
From Bali to Helsinki, Sydney to London and all points in between, supporters of the Arctic 30 have turned out in force today, demonstrating outside Russian embassies around the world to demand their release.
After nearly two years of campaigning by more than 526,000 of you
across the planet, VW has turned away from the Dark Side and committed
to make cleaner and more efficient cars.
That means VW will also meet strong EU CO2 reduction targets.
This
is big, because using less oil means less pollution, less impact on the
climate and less pressure on vulnerable places like the Arctic.
After nearly 2 years and 520,683 people pressuring VW, they've finally agreed to make cleaner and more efficient cars. VW announced that it will meet new EU car efficiency targets for 2020. That means its entire fleet will average 95g/km (about 4 litres/100km) per vehicle by 2020. VW is Europe’s biggest car-maker, the seconde biggest in the world, so this is big news. Using less oil means less pollution, less impact on the climate and less pressure on vulnerable places like the Arctic. Here's how you made it happen...
Activists board the Gazprom Prirazlomnaya oil drilling platform, Russia
Prirazlomnaya.
It’s certainly a mouthful, but it’s also the new name – and face – of Arctic destruction today. This giant Russian platform is set to be the first to try and commercially produce offshore Arctic oil anywhere on the planet.
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It's not often you get to be part of a major piece of activism and a 12-hour live broadcast at the same time. But that's exactly what's been happening today.
While sqauds of volunteers close down Shell petrol stations in Edinburgh and London, a team of presenters, camera operators, vision mixers and editors (with one person often covering many of those roles!) have been running a special online TV channel from the Greenpeace warehouse in north London.
After the Observer magazine cover
story about our Arctic campaign, there was a flurry of interest around the
statistic that we've lost 75% of the Arctic sea ice since 1979.
Here's Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, on why he thinks the 75% figure is correct.
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Numbers of bluefin tuna are rapidly dwindling
I’m here in Bangkok at a gathering of hundreds of tuna business officials, policy-makers and even a few environmental advocates like myself. It’s been a long week of discussion about the future of the industry, including a lot about what we all call sustainability fish for the future.
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The stricken Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico
The second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is upon us - and looking at the lessons the oil industry got from it, you’d think it never happened. Here are the most important points governments and oil companies didn’t learn.
VW's announcement is a step forward, but much more needs to be done
Earlier this week, VW announced some improvements to its new
cars that will reduce emissions by enough to beat existing European targets.
It's not the success we're looking for – we're still a long way from that – but
there's no doubt about it: a massive part of this is down to half a million
Jedi demanding that VW lives up to the green image it paints for
itself.
In short, the rebellion is strong and it's working!
