7/31/2019 Green Peace Victories
1/2
Year Location/
Country
Company
targeted
Issue Result
February 2011 Facebook Switch from coal to renewable energy
Sitting policy to move away from coal and
adopt renewable energy sources
October 2011 Mattel Avoid wood fiber from controversial
sources and save tiger habitat
Recycle paper use and use of wood certified
by Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
September
2011
China H&M, Adidas,
Nike and Puma
Toxic chemical and water pollution
of Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas
committed to eliminate discharges of
hazardous chemicals from across their entire
supply chains
March 2011 Ocean Princes canning ocean destruction is
unacceptable
no longer rely on indiscriminate and
destructive fishing methods
December
2010
Japan Fisheries
Agency ofJapan (FAJ)
expose corruption at the heart of the
whaling industry
announced plans to take disciplinary action
against five officials
December2010
Finland 80,000 hectaresof pine forest
Endangering Saami reindeer herder declared off-limits to
industrial logging
November2010
USA Various campaign against climate-killingchemical HFC
400 companies of the Consumer GoodsForum of the US agree to
climate-friendly
refrigeration beginning in 2015
May 2010 Russia and
France
expose and oppose nuclear waste
(Uranium Hexafluoride) shipments
from France to Russia
Russia puts an end to the practice
February 2010 India Wipro to provide toxics free electronics
Indian computer manufacturer Wiproannounces the launch of a new PVC
and
BFR-free computer
November
2009
USA Clorox transport of dangerous chlorine gas Clorox announces
a phase out of and transport
of dangerous chlorine gasMarch 2009 Poland construction of an
open pit coal mine
in Poland
Stopping around 50 million tons of CO2 from
being released into the atmosphere.
July 2008 Indonesia Ferrero cutting down trees in Indonesia
for
palm oil plantations.
(Famous for its Nutela brand) becomes the
latest large palm oil user to changes its
position to support a moratorium on cuttingdown trees in
Indonesia for palm oil
plantations.
1998 The environmental Protocol to the Antarctic
treaty comes in to force.
7/31/2019 Green Peace Victories
2/2
Year Location/
Country
Company
targeted
Issue Result
1997 UNEP domestic refrigeration free of ozone
depleting
Greenpeace collects the UNEP ozone Award
for the development of Green freeze domestic
refrigeration free of ozone depleting and
significant global warming chemicals.
1995, 1998 Ocean Shell dump disused installations in the
ocean
Shell finally agrees to bring its infamous
offshore installation, the Brent Spar, to land
for recycling
1988, 1993 London
Dumping
Convention
world-wide ban on incinerating
organochlorine waste at sea is agreed by the
London Dumping Convention
1985,1993 France South
pacific Ocean
State French nuclear testing and sinking of
Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow
Warrior
France cancels this year's nuclear tests at
Moruroa Atoll
1982 International
Whaling
Commission
Whaling whaling moratorium is adopted
1982 European
commission
Import of seal pup skins EC bans import of seal pup skins
1978 Scotland, UK State grey seal slaughter in the Orkney
Islands, Scotland
Halted
1975 France State Atmospheric tests France ends atmospheric
tests in the South
Pacific
1972 USA State Nuclear testing US abandons nuclear testing
grounds at
Amchitka Island, Alaska
