Go beyond oil

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

VW film competition launched!

As part of our ongoing campaign to turn Volkswagen away from the Dark Side, we've launched a film competition. You've got two weeks to make fake VW adverts...
Posted by Richardg - 19 September, 2011 - 10:52

Sailing, satellites and sadness

Yesterday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that Arctic sea ice had reached its annual minimum. It is the second lowest extent in recorded...
Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 16 September, 2011 - 12:48
The 18 activists in jail for boarding Cairn's rig to demand the spill response p

The Arctic 20 on trial

Early one June morning this year, along with 19 fellow activists I jumped off a Greenpeace inflatable and climbed up the vertical wall of the leg of a giant...
Posted by ben - 16 September, 2011 - 09:01
Our banner at Frankfurt Motor Show and VW's counter protest!

VW are protesting against us!

You'd struggle to make this up.Moments ago, our activists dropped a huge banner at the Frankfurt motor show - the biggest in the world - to highlight VW's...
Posted by jamess - 15 September, 2011 - 14:42
Melting summer sea ice in the Arctic

Cairn fails to find Arctic oil, again

This month sees the Arctic sea ice minimum, a litmus test for the health of the global climate, with indications suggesting the extent in 2011 could be the...
Posted by ben - 13 September, 2011 - 11:48

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