Hi John,

Together, we achieved huge wins in 2024: securing a more climate-friendly government, challenging illegal oil and gas fields in court, and stopping dangerous deep-sea mining in the Arctic. And after a year of campaigning, Shell finally backed down and dropped their lawsuit against us. 

None of this would have been possible without you. Thank you so much for choosing to protect our world with Greenpeace. When we take action together, everything is possible.

But we need you now more than ever to continue to take action with us - in 2025 Shell and other major oil companies are gearing up to drill for more oil and gas. This means more destruction of nature and more extreme weather, which means more lives will be lost and disrupted. 

John, watch our brand new video on what’s at stake and how we can turn the tide around, and then share it with friends and family to grow our movement. 

Oil and gas giants are gearing up to expand their extractive operations this year – and they’re attempting to silence anyone who gets in their way. 

In a matter of weeks, fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer is taking Greenpeace in the USA to court for an astronomical $300 million in damages, all because of the Indigenous-led protests to oppose the miles-long crude oil pipeline at Standing Rock, North Dakota. 

If the case is lost, it could be the end of Greenpeace in the USA. The USA is one of the most powerful and polluting countries in the world, and also home to big polluting companies like ExxonMobil and Energy Transfer.

And if Greenpeace in the USA has to shut down its campaigning, it’d give Big Oil free rein to keep up its destruction. 

But with the strength of committed supporters like you at our side, we’ll continue to challenge Big Oil’s expansion plans.

John, watch our 2025 vision video and share it with your friends and family to grow our movement. Together we can defend the natural world and work for a green and peaceful future for all. 

We need to harness the collective power of this movement again this year, and urgently. A UN report [1] has already revealed Big Oil companies are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over. 

And to get away with it, Big Oil and gas companies around the world are trying to shut down Greenpeace’s peaceful protest. Shell UK tried to sue Greenpeace UK, Greenpeace International and our activists for close to £10 million including legal costs and damages, and Energy Transfer’s $300m case against Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International is nothing short of an existential threat to Greenpeace in the USA.

A win for Big Oil in any of these cases would set a dangerous precedent that could intimidate environmental defenders worldwide.

We won’t back down. Big Oil wants to silence and intimidate Greenpeace so we can't get in their way. But we won’t stop fighting until they stop drilling and start paying for the climate disasters they’re responsible for. For the fatal floods claiming lives from Spain to Nigeria. The deadly fires tearing through Chile and Hawaii. And the unprecedented droughts across the world - including the Brazilian Amazon’s worst drought since records began.

We can’t let 2025 be the year that the Big Oil profiteers take a hold on our future. The path to a green and peaceful future is winding... but we still know the way forward. It means all hands on deck, putting it all on the line, but with enough action, enough courage, and all of our voices, we can and will turn the tide.

We still have time to create the safer, cleaner future we all need. But, John, we’re more determined than ever to build that better world together.

Thank you for being with us, 

Areeba Hamid and Will McCallum

Co-Executive Directors, Greenpeace UK

Notes:

[1] The Production Gap: Phasing down or phasing up? Top fossil fuel producers plan even more extraction despite climate promises

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