GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT 2015 GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL 2 GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT 2015 A Message from the Greenpeace International Executive Directors 3 Greenpeace International’s Board of Directors 4 A Message from the Board Chair 5 Greenpeace’s Global Programme 6 Climate & Energy 7 Detox 10 Food for Life 12 Forests 14 Oceans 17 Save the Arctic 20 People Power 22 Greenpeace International Organisation Director’s Report 25 Greenpeace International Abbreviated Financial Statements 26 Greenpeace Worldwide Abbreviated Financial Statements 28 Environmental Report 29 Our People 30 Office Contact Details 31 The global Greenpeace organisation consists of Greenpeace International and 26 national and regional Greenpeace organisations, which are all separate and independent legal entities. In this annual report “Greenpeace” could be used for convenience purposes where references are made to either Greenpeace International or one of Projection on the the national or regional Greenpeace organisations. Moreover, the words Moorburg coal-fired “we”, “us” and “our” are also used to refer to our partners in the Greenpeace power plant in Germany, network and their respective staff, activists and volunteers. These terms protesting the high could also be used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the mercury emission of the specific independent Greenpeace entity. Vattenfall-owned plant. © Fred Dott / Greenpeace 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Greenpeace is on a transformational path. Our world The Forest campaign celebrated when the deforestation is changing faster than at any other time in human history. law was delivered to the Brazilian Congress and the soya We have witnessed rapid changes in the health of our moratorium was once again extended. In Indonesia, planet from our oceans to the atmosphere, in economic President Jokowi announced a two year extension of the growth, technological innovation and our increasing forest clearance moratorium and RGE Group, a major interconnectedness via the internet and on social media. pulp-and-paper company, announced a new sustainability These forces drive our organisational change, and in 2015 policy. The Oceans campaign saw the UN commit to Greenpeace continued to implement a new way of working, develop a High Seas Biodiversity Agreement. In Mexico, so that we become an organisation that is more enabling, there was a two-year fishing ban in the vaquita habitat. The more engaged and more effective as we look ahead to tuna campaign was also able to highlight the link between the next 10 years. industrial fishing and human rights abuses. During the year, Greenpeace International facilitated the When Shell announced its withdrawal from the Arctic, development and agreement of the global organisation’s the Save the Arctic campaign with more than 8 million strategy. Working with the Greenpeace National & supporters could point to our collective role in making that Regional Organisations (NROs) we developed core a reality. The #PaddleinSeattle action saw 2,000 people shared systems and services, ensuring alignment, take to the water in protest and we hosted an Indigenous monitoring and evaluation and learning across the delegation from British Columbia on board our ship to lead global organisation. In addition, we continued to build the protest against Shell’s oil rig heading to the Arctic. relationships with other groups and communities where we had common cause. The challenges to protect the life support systems of the planet that our own fates are so intimately connected to In this Annual Report Greenpeace International will provide are greater today than yesterday. So we ask: How can a topline overview of the activities undertaken by the we bolster our campaigns to meet these challenges, and global Greenpeace network in 2015. As you will read, remain ever-hopeful resilient and grounded? The answer Greenpeace moved further towards “people-powered” is people. From activists, volunteers and supporters to staff campaigning, engaging and working alongside others to and alumni, our partners and collaborators in other change make change in their own backyards. More and more we organisations, people and their courage are at the heart are also focusing our attention on what the root causes of of our campaigns. When the best parts of our humanity issues are so that we can design our campaigns to tackle collaborate we can be a force of nature for the common what is creating the problems in the first place, or holding good. When we combine our voices we can speak truth back the solutions. to power with more volume and more courage than ever before. The Paris Climate Agreement marked the beginning of the end for fossil fuels and is the catalyst towards 100% Thank you so much for everything you do. renewable energy. We are proud that our role in mass mobilisation was significant while we continued to push governments and corporations towards coal divestment and greater investment in renewables. There were big wins for the Detox campaign: the EU banned a group of hazardous chemicals still allowed in textile production in China, major German discount retailers committed to phasing out hazardous chemicals and to address over-consumption and the Mexican ship tour raised awareness around increasing e-waste. The Food For Life campaign was also successful, with 19 EU Jennifer Morgan and Bunny McDiarmid countries banning GMO cultivation. Greenpeace International Executive Directors © Bas Beentjes / Greenpeace 4 GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS Term of office: Term of office: Term of office: Term of office: First Elected: 2011 First Elected: 2012 First Elected: 2013 First Elected: 2014 Term Ends: 2017 Term Ends: 2018 Term Ends: 2019 Term Ends: 2017 ANA TONI (BOARD CHAIR) ED HARRINGTON (TREASURER) THULI MAKAMA ATHENA RONQUILLO-BALLESTEROS Ana is Partner in the GIP (Public Interest Management) (Public Ed is currently an adjunct professor at the University of San Thuli, a graduate of the University of Swaziland and the London Athena is a passionate activist from the Philippines and currently based Interest Management Research and Consultant) www.gip.net.br. Francisco, is a consultant on government finance issues and serves School of Economics, is Advocate (Senior Counsel) of the High in Washington DC. She is currently Director of WRI’s Sustainable on various non-profit boards. He was General Manager of the San Court of Swaziland and Member of the Law Society of Swaziland. Finance Program, which works to improve the environmental and From 2003 until May 2011, Ana Toni was the Representative for Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) until his retirement Combining law and advocacy, Thuli Makama has engaged in public social decision making and performance of public and private the Ford Foundation in Brazil, during which time she oversaw in September 2012. The SFPUC provides water to 2.5 million interest environmental law challenges against powerful multinational financial institutions. Athena has over fifteen years of leadership and the Foundation’s work in the areas of human rights, sustainable customers in the San Francisco Bay Area along with sewer and corporations and her government in defence of environmental and management experience in environment, development and natural development, racial and ethical discrimination, sexuality and stormwater services in San Francisco and hydroelectric and solar human rights of local communities. resource governance in developing countries, with a particular focus reproductive health, media democratization and land rights. She power generation for municipal purposes in the City. The SFPUC on climate change, clean energy and sustainable finance. She is a was also responsible for coordinating the regional Latin America has 2,300 employees, an operating budget of $800m US dollars She has over seventeen years’ experience on governance in the not- long-time policy advisor to the Philippines government’s official climate funding on Economics and Globalization, the IBSA initiative (joint and is in the middle of a $4.6bn rebuild of the water system. for-profit sector, having served as Deputy Chair of the Open Society change negotiating team at the UN Framework Convention on Climate work between Brazil, South Africa and India) and the International Initiative Southern Africa, Treasurer of IUCN World Conservation Change (UNFCCC) and has assisted various Philippines ministries on Initiative on Intellectual Property Rights. During the four and a half years that Ed was General Manager of the Union Eastern and Southern Africa board, Ombudsman of Friends of climate, energy and finance issues at key international sessions such SFPUC, he was also the Chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance the Earth International, member of Coordinating Board of Friends of From 1998 to 2002 Ana was the Executive Director of ActionAid as the Asia Pacific Summit for Economic Cooperation (APEC); ASEAN composed of 10 large water utilities in the US with 45 million the Earth Africa, Trustee at groundWork - Friends of the Earth South and World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). She has Brazil; working to contribute in the eradication of poverty and customers, focused on providing leadership and collaboration on Africa, Chair of the Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental inequality through community development projects, as well published widely on the issue of climate change, climate finance, clean climate change issues