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If we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we have to wean ourselves off oil. We are working to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and putting pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

Campaign updates

Activists protest VW at the Vienna car show

New year, new VW?

How’s your New Year’s resolutions list going? We’re waiting to hear how Volkswagen has begun 2013. This morning more than 25 Greenpeace activists protested...
Posted by Hugh Mouser - 11 January, 2013 - 17:52
Volkswagen is lobbying against critical environmental laws

Why are car companies trying to block laws that would save us money and protect the climate?

With fuel prices at record levels and predicted to keep rising, you’d think that new European proposals to stem drivers’ costs and reduce emissions would be...
Posted by bex - 10 May, 2012 - 10:43

Cost of driving

Greenpeace commissioned an independent expert to calculate the cost savings that drivers in 15 European states can expect if EU fuel efficiency legislation is...
Posted by bex - 10 May, 2012 - 10:06
Arctic Fox

Lessons from the Elgin gas leak: why we must stop Shell's Arctic drilling

Ten days after the leak began, Total is still struggling to contain the gas pouring from its North Sea Elgin platform, citing bad weather as the cause of the...
Posted by bex - 4 April, 2012 - 13:51

Seven of us climbed up that drillship to stop Arctic drilling, but 133,000 of us came down

As we sat anxiously in the office last Friday waiting for the 'we made it' call we never dreamed that four days later we would have witnessed such a massive...
Posted by BunnyMcdiarmid - 27 February, 2012 - 10:57

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