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Annual Report 0 Annual Report 2010 www.greenpeace.org International COVER IMAGE: Greenpeace activist swims in front of the Stena Carron, a giant oil drilling ship, to stop it moving to a Contents deepwater drilling site 100 miles north of the Shetland Isles. © WILL ROSE / GREENPEACE Greenpeace is present in 3 Message from the 4 40 countries across Europe, Executive DIrector the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. 4 Catalysing an Energy [R]evolution Greenpeace International, registered in the Netherlands 8 Protecting our Forests as Stichting Greenpeace Bold non-violent direct action took the struggle against climate change to one of its frontiers in 2010 – the Arctic Council, is the body that 10 Defending our Oceans Ocean. Activists evaded Danish navy commandos and scaled Cairn Energy’s exploration rig off Greenland, coordinates global Greenpeace halting the operation for nearly two days. policy and strategy. 12 Creating a Toxic-Free Future To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept 14 Campaigning for 8 donations from governments Sustainable Agriculture or corporations but relies on contributions from individual 16 Our Ships supporters and foundation grants. 18 Our Supporters Greenpeace has been 20 How we spend our Following a short but highly effective Greenpeace campaigning against campaign targeting the Kit Kat brand, the food giant donated funds Nestlé agreed to stop purchasing products that come environmental degradation from rainforest destruction in May 2010. since 1971, when a small boat 22 Message from the of volunteers and journalists Board Chair, sailed into Amchitka, an area 10 north of Alaska where the US Our Board of Directors government was conducting 24 Financial Report - underground nuclear tests. This tradition of ‘bearing International witness’ in a non-violent 26 Financial Report - manner continues today. Worldwide Corruption inside the Japanese government, its adherence to international law, freedom of speech, the right of individual protest and the senseless killing of thousands of whales all came under the spotlight during the trial of the 28 Environmental Report ‘Tokyo Two’, the two activists who exposed widespread corruption in Japan’s whaling programme. Published by Greenpeace International Ottho Heldringstraat 5, 30 Office contact details 1066 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands 16 t +31 20 718 2000 f +31 20 718 2002 www.greenpeace.org JN 379 For more information please contact [email protected] In 2010, Greenpeace started the construction of a new Rainbow Warrior. The new ship will be the world’s first purpose-built, environmentally-advanced campaigning vessel, and the first purpose-built ship in the Greenpeace fleet. 2 Greenpeace International | 2010 Annual Report Message from the © MARCO OKHUIZEN / G Executive Director REENPEACE 2010 was marked by the devastation A strong, clear message was sent to the that the relentless and reckless pursuit palm oil and paper industry that rainforest of profit can cause: a human tragedy destruction is an unacceptable practice in and enormous environmental, social today’s global marketplace. and economic devastation that will last As thousands of tiny boats and massive a generation or more. We watched in clean-up vessels struggled to control the horror as oil poured from a blown-out spread of toxic, suffocating oil slicks in the deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico. waters of the Gulf of Mexico, oil giants eyed The oil industry appeared to be both up the Arctic for deepwater drilling. They unprepared and powerless to stop it. hope to take advantage of climate change, The Deepwater Horizon disaster provided which is making this region more accessible. yet another reason why the world should The self-styled cowboy oil company end its reliance on dwindling fossil fuels Cairn Energy is blazing a trail and drilling and embrace an Energy [R]evolution exploratory deepwater oil wells in Arctic based upon smart use of energy and water off western and southwestern renewable energy sources. Greenland. Our ice-class ship Esperanza Following the crushing disappointment and a dedicated crew tried to prevent the of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, dangerous drilling, pointing out that a BP- where over 120 world leaders failed to style deepwater blow-out in the remote and seize the historic opportunity to agree fragile Arctic environment would be all but on a fair, ambitious and legally binding impossible to stop and clean up. climate protection treaty, we challenged As I write, we are approaching corporations to become leaders in the Greenpeace’s 40th birthday and this leads struggle to avert catastrophic climate us to review our past activities, campaigns change. We challenged them to clean and victories. It leads us to ask if we are up their supply chains and address their still relevant. Do we still have a job to do? roles in environmental destruction. We Over 40 years we have been honing our demanded that they champion policies to campaigning skills, by constantly innovating protect the environment and the climate. and adopting new tactics and strategies Throughout the year, we harnessed the we have stayed at the cutting edge. We power of consumers, urging them to vote are ready for the greatest struggle of all: the with their pockets and demand goods struggle to avert climate chaos. and services that do not cost the earth. Construction began on a new Rainbow We have been increasingly campaigning Warrior, a purpose-built campaign ship with our supporters to let major brands that will meet the most stringent and know that we won’t buy environmental exacting environmental standards, a sailing destruction. ship capable of travelling the world with a Big businesses have already been minimal carbon ‘footprint’. To be launched compelled to take action to end their role in November 2011, she will provide focus in supporting environmental destruction. and leadership for the ongoing struggle For example, when we exposed Nestlé’s to protect our planet. She will become role in Indonesian rainforest destruction a beacon of hope for men and women due to its reliance on unsustainably of good conscience world wide who are produced palm oil, the resulting social prepared to stand up and take action to media firestorm saw hundreds of protect the environment. thousands of people join us in demanding that the company put policies in place to ensure that it no longer contributed to the forces driving deforestation and the extinction of the orang-utans and Sumatran tigers that depend upon Indonesia’s rainforest. Greenpeace International | 2010 Annual Report 3 Catalysing an Energy [R]evolution REENPEACE © WILL ROSE / G 4 Greenpeace International | 2010 Annual Report main image: Greenpeace’s ‘Go Beyond Oil’ ship tour photo inset 1: Cairn Energy’s Stena Don oil rig is exposed and confronted the oil industry’s race to develop deep scaled by Greenpeace campaigners to prevent it sea drilling for oil. Companies are taking massive risks to drill from drilling off the coast of Greenland. in ever more dangerous places rather than investing in clean energy to stop climate change. photo inset 2: An oil firefighter attempts to fix an underwater pump during oil spill clean-up operations climate & in Dalian, China. Zhang Liang later drowned, despite desperate efforts to rescue him. energy © LU GUANG / GREENPEACE © WILL ROSE / GREENPEACE Bold non-violent direct action took the Scientists were also at the heart of our struggle against climate change to one ‘Arctic Under Pressure Tour’. Aboard the In July, a Greenpeace team of its frontiers in 2010 – the Arctic Ocean. Greenpeace ship Esperanza, the German provided international media with Companies such as the UK’s Cairn Energy marine science institute IFM-GEOMAR arresting first-hand images of an oil see the Arctic’s receding ice sheets as an carried out the largest ever experiment on spill in Dalian, China. Amid official opportunity to make profits from risky oil ocean acidification. Caused by the ocean’s underestimations of the spill’s size, drilling operations. Greenpeace couldn’t absorption of CO2 pollution from industrial predictions of a rapid cleanup, and disagree more. In August, our activists emissions, this process is changing the promises of minimal environmental evaded Danish navy commandos and scaled oceans’ chemistry, and could cause a damage, our images showed the real Cairn’s exploration rig off Greenland, halting breakdown of ocean ecosystems as we extent of the disaster and the severe the operation – we knew that, due to very know them. Our two-month expedition threat it posed to the area’s coastal ecosystem. tight deadlines, even a minor delay could yielded the most comprehensive data set have a major effect; Cairn didn’t find oil in ever on the impacts of ocean acidification in As oil kept gushing into the Gulf of 2010. Extremely difficult conditions have Arctic waters, as well as breathtaking images Mexico following the explosion of deterred oil companies from attempting of previously unseen areas of the sea floor the Deepwater Horizon platform, exploration in the Arctic in the past, but there north of Svalbard. Greenpeace put the operator, BP, is a danger that Cairn’s project could spark on the spot back home in the UK. Activists temporarily closed petrol an Arctic oil rush, with potentially devastating stations across London, while implications for marine life, and for coastal supporters redesigned the BP logo to ecosystems and communities. better reflect the company’s polluting The disastrous consequences of an oil spill “We don’t fully understand the reality. We called on BP to turn away had already become apparent when, earlier from high-cost and environmentally long-term effects of oil spills reckless sources of oil, like deepwater in the year, the BP-operated Deepwater drilling and the Canadian tar sands, Horizon drilling platform exploded and sank like the BP Deepwater Disaster towards an energy revolution based into the Gulf of Mexico.
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