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🌍 Greenpeace: Positive Actions & Ongoing Projects
Even though Greenpeace has faced significant legal headwinds — including the high-profile court ruling in North Dakota against some affiliates — the broader network is still actively campaigning and winning tangible environmental progress around the world:
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✅ Campaigns & victories
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🌿 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): Ongoing 2026 Efforts with Positive Impact
The Environmental Defense Fund, while different in strategy from Greenpeace, has a number of meaningful, practical impact initiatives underway in 2025–2026:
🔎 Climate & health policy work
EDF’s Vision 2030 plan lays out ambitious goals — such as large-scale carbon dioxide reduction, safer hydrogen deployment, sustainable groundwater management, and toxic chemical exposure reduction — with concrete work happening now to achieve these by 2030.
👥 Internal developments
Why This Matters
Even when one organization gets negative headlines — like a costly lawsuit or political pushback — that doesn’t mean the entire environmental movement is failing.
Both Greenpeace and EDF are still engaged in ongoing projects that deliver real environmental benefits:
✳️ Context on the lawsuit
It is true that one North Dakota court verdict required Greenpeace to pay a large civil judgment, which was widely reported. That case arose from protests linked to the Dakota Access Pipeline from several years ago, and Greenpeace has been appealing that ruling and continuing other legal strategies abroad.
But that legal event doesn’t erase the organization’s current work globally, nor does it necessarily apply to all Greenpeace entities worldwide.
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Even though Greenpeace has faced significant legal headwinds — including the high-profile court ruling in North Dakota against some affiliates — the broader network is still actively campaigning and winning tangible environmental progress around the world:
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✅ Campaigns & victories
- Greenpeace published a roundup of multiple “good news” environmental wins from around the world, highlighting successful outcomes in climate action and nature protection that their campaigns helped support throughout 2025. These include court rulings in favor of climate protection and legislative changes in several countries.
- Another similar roundup showcased climate and environmental justice victories — from Indigenous rights protections to legislative reforms influenced by environmental advocacy.
- Greenpeace Africa continues active environmental protection work in early 2026, including:
- Launching the “Sentinels of the Sea” expedition to expose harmful fishing practices and strengthen sustainable ocean protections across West Africa.
- Docking its ship Rainbow Warrior in Cape Town to mobilize public support against fossil fuel expansion and plastic pollution in African waters.
- Using creative campaigns (e.g., satirical videos) to call out corporate greenwashing ahead of major sporting events, pushing for environmental accountability.
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🌿 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): Ongoing 2026 Efforts with Positive Impact
The Environmental Defense Fund, while different in strategy from Greenpeace, has a number of meaningful, practical impact initiatives underway in 2025–2026:
🔎 Climate & health policy work
- EDF is actively working on tackling climate misinformation, which is critical in building public and policymaker support for science-based climate action.
- Recent analysis highlights the benefits of methane reduction, showing how lowering methane emissions not only slows climate change but also protects vulnerable populations from health and economic harm.
EDF’s Vision 2030 plan lays out ambitious goals — such as large-scale carbon dioxide reduction, safer hydrogen deployment, sustainable groundwater management, and toxic chemical exposure reduction — with concrete work happening now to achieve these by 2030.
👥 Internal developments
- EDF staff voted to unionize early in 2026, reflecting internal organizational progress on labor and equity — a sign of evolving workplace engagement in environmental NGOs.
- EDF’s advocacy and technical work contributes to major public funding decisions such as clean vehicle standards (e.g., support for heavy-duty electrification funding partnerships with EPA), which have real economic and environmental benefits.
Why This Matters
Even when one organization gets negative headlines — like a costly lawsuit or political pushback — that doesn’t mean the entire environmental movement is failing.
Both Greenpeace and EDF are still engaged in ongoing projects that deliver real environmental benefits:
- Grassroots and regional campaigns protecting oceans, forests, and Indigenous rights.
- Policy influence leading to legislative wins or corporate changes.
- Science-based advocacy that strengthens long-term climate action and public understanding.
✳️ Context on the lawsuit
It is true that one North Dakota court verdict required Greenpeace to pay a large civil judgment, which was widely reported. That case arose from protests linked to the Dakota Access Pipeline from several years ago, and Greenpeace has been appealing that ruling and continuing other legal strategies abroad.
But that legal event doesn’t erase the organization’s current work globally, nor does it necessarily apply to all Greenpeace entities worldwide.
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Hope Comes Alive
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Ruling: A Victory for Climate Action
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Tackling Methane
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Fighting Climate Change Misinformation
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