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Campaigning for a peaceful, just and green future is no longer the job of a specialised few, but the common struggle of all. 

With the environmental crisis deepening and climate change impacts being felt across the globe, our work in 2012 proved increasingly more challenging and demanding.

2011 was the year in which Greenpeace celebrated its 40th anniversary as a campaigning organisation.

The year was marked by the devastation that the relentless and reckless pursuit of profit can cause: a human tragedy and enormous environmental, social and economic devastation.

December 2009 – the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where the talks were meant to avert catastrophic climate change.

Throughout 2008, Greenpeace worked not only to highlight the threats of climate change, but also on showcasing the opportunities and solutions that tackling climate change can bring.

Upon winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore said that he could notunderstand why young people were not chaining themselves to coal-firedpower stations. They are…and so are we.

Inconvenient truths and unlikely allies combined in 2006 to make it a notable year for Greenpeace and the environment.

2005 was a milestone for the planet -the year that the Kyoto Protocol finally became law. It took a long time to get here.

Environmental crimes happen daily with no government, court, police or authority to turn to. We cannot rely on governments, alone, to act and make change.