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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

Our international film competition launches on 17 September 2011

Greenpeace film competition: turning the cameras on VW

Volkswagen says it wants to be the most eco-friendly car manufacturer in the world. But it’s spending millions trying to stop laws to make cars more efficient...
Posted by jamess - 8 August, 2011 - 09:37 -
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier

Risky business in the far north

Today Cairn Energy published the latest operational update for its risky oil drilling off Greenland and the news, at least for the wildcat oil company, was far...
Posted by ben - 3 August, 2011 - 16:01 -
VW is not the green company it wants you to think it is

5 things you didn’t know about Volkswagen

Last week we showed you evidence of VW actively lobbying in the US against the laws we need to protect our planet.Here are some more facts about Volkswagen...
Posted by Saraa - 1 August, 2011 - 16:15 -
Tim DeChristopher sentenced to two years in US prison

Tim DeChristopher - a new hero

The environment and the world have a new hero, a reluctant hero perhaps, but someone who in good conscience could not stand by and watch a grave injustice...
Posted by Kumi Naidoo - 29 July, 2011 - 10:28 -
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws in the US and Europe

Volkswagen's Dark Side: caught red-handed in the US

Since we launched our campaign to turn VW away from the Dark Side the response has been phenomenal. Over a quarter of a million people have joined the...
Posted by jamess - 28 July, 2011 - 16:20

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