Oil company war profiteering, a deep arctic expedition, and a planned megafarm in Spain. Here are some images from Greenpeace work around the world over the past week.

U.K. – Greenpeace UK activists project the truth about the source of Shell’s huge profits onto their global headquarters by the Thames in London as well as next to a Shell petrol station. The projections include the messages “They Profit We Pay”, “War Profiteers”, “At Least We are Making Billions”, “War Profits HQ” and “Making a killing”.

Greece – Damaged component on board the ship Mystere, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, found adrift by Greenpeace after the flotilla was illegally intercepted in international waters by Israeli forces as they attempted to break the long standing illegal blockade of Gaza.

Ireland – Greenpeace marine biologist and chief scientist Dr. Sandra Schöttner onboard a research vessel departing Ireland this week en route to the Arctic.

Greenpeace will deploy an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) to a depth of 3000m to gather scientific evidence of the diversity, distribution and connectivity of fauna in Arctic deep-sea ecosystems in the mining area – with particular focus on vulnerable, rare, endemic and undescribed species – in order to trigger international, regional and national conservation protocols. The expedition will be live-streamed via this page.

Senegal – Facing Down Bullies, a Greenpeace campaign push against the Energy Transfer SLAPP case against Greenpeace International and USA. Greenpeace Africa volunteers in Congo unite in solidarity, raising their voices against corruption, corporate greed, and authoritarianism. Together, we speak out and take action to defend our rights, freedoms, and environment – because power belongs to the people.

Spain- Greenpeace Spain opposes the construction of a large-scale poultry farm in San Clemente (Cuenca) that would house nearly a million hens.

Norway – Ahead of the 2026 Equinor AGM, Greenpeace Norway activists project messages on the head office in Stavanger, Norway to protest the obscene profits made since the start of the Iran war pushed up global oil prices.

Netherlands – Greenpeace Netherlands activists have disrupted the first-ever shareholder meeting of meat giant JBS in the Netherlands. At the Sheraton Hotel at Schiphol Airport, where the meeting took place, activists hung a banner dripping with fake blood that read: ‘JBS: Keep your bloody business out of Africa’. Activists entered the meeting hall, where Greenpeace Director Marieke Vellekoop personally served an information request to the JBS CEOs. This document formally signals that Greenpeace Netherlands is taking legal action against the company. The goal of the legal battle is to block JBS’s destructive expansion plans in Nigeria.

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My name is Elizabeth, a Pan-African food campaigner with Greenpeace Africa working to defend food sovereignty, ecological justice and community rights across the continent. A few months ago, Greenpeace Africa called out JBS, the world’s largest meat company, which has signed a $2.5 billion deal to import its dangerous business model to Nigeria.

That’s why last week I was in Amsterdam, where I watched as Greenpeace Netherlands and dozens of activists took over  the JBS’ first shareholder meeting since it became a Dutch company in 2025. The purpose? Deliver a Disclosure Letter, a first step toward legal action that could stop JBS’ aggressive expansion plans in their tracks.

The letter demands that JBS make public plans, impact assessments and consultations about its Nigeria expansion – and seeing JBS executives fleeing their own meeting made clear how desperate they are to avoid scrutiny. But they can’t escape our message: Keep JBS’ bloody business out of Africa. 

Outside the meeting, my colleague Ferdinand recorded a powerful message for JBS execs. They legged it before he could deliver it in person, but I hope you can take the time to watch it and share it on your own channels. Support from people like you is vital to keeping the pressure on as we move forward with our allies.

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When multinationals talk about new markets and “geographic diversification” in the Global South, what they often mean is taking control over land, water, food systems and livelihoods. Nigerians have seen first-hand the destruction that another infamous Dutch company, Shell, already wrought on their country: decades of environmental destruction, pollution and broken promises. JBS follows the same playbook: peddling empty promises, refusing transparency, and ignoring civil society.

JBS has not made public critical information about the impact their plans will have on local communities and on the land and the water they depend on – the things that matter for their immediate security – as well as globally through climate change and biodiversity loss.

But based on JBS’ track record – a business model characterised by massive emissions and linked to environmental destruction, corruption scandals and human rights violations – that expansion will come at an intolerable cost to people and planet. All to line their pockets. 

Well, not on our watch.

How we stop JBS’ expansion

JBS was warned last year, before it relocated its headquarters from Brazil to the Netherlands, that as a Dutch company it would need to play by Dutch law. Greenpeace Netherlands is now laying the foundation for a legal challenge in court to block JBS’ expansion plans. This is on the grounds that  by causing dangerous harm to climate, nature and human rights , it is in breach of Dutch law.

That is why Greenpeace Netherlands has given JBS three weeks to release the files that could help expose the true scale of the damage its expansion will cause. Under a new Dutch law, if JBS doesn’t hand them over, Greenpeace Netherlands can petition a Dutch court to compel it to do so. And in those files, dear friends, we believe is the information that would allow JBS’ dangerous $6 billion announced expansion plans , nearly half of which is earmarked for Nigeria , to be assessed and challenged in the Dutch courts.

Stopping their plans will leave space for the real solutions for nature and food sovereignty Africa needs.

And the success of a campaign like this relies on the support from people like you. 

JBS is already “active” in Nigeria

In its agreement with Nigeria’s government, JBS has pledged to build six giant meat-processing plants that would permanently alter Nigerian food production. These plans are framed as a solution to “food insecurity.” But let’s be clear about what this really is: a massive corporate takeover that threatens to lock in spiralling emissions for decades, drain water sources, and upend the food sovereignty that millions of families depend on.

After its expansion plans were splashed across Dutch media last week,  JBS told journalists that it isn’t “active” in Nigeria yet and that “they will inform shareholders when they are”.  This type of evasive statement is absolutely typical for JBS. But let’s be frank: you don’t announce a $2.5 billion deal unless you mean business. And what limited information is public gives a strong indication of just how far their plans have advanced already.

In Niger state, the government has already publicly pledged a staggering 1.2 million hectares of land – an area the size of the Gambia – for this expansion. And as the Governor of Ogun state acknowledged last year in the presence of JBS’ billionaire bosses Josley and Wesley Batista, JBS has already dispatched a “technical team to Nigeria to conduct feasibility studies” to expand into his state.

So while available evidence suggests business assessments and massive land deals are being made, actual formal and official information on what and where is unavailable. JBS cannot be allowed to continue operating in the shadows. 

To be clear, the challenges facing Nigeria’s food production are real. Shrinking grazing corridors, land degradation, and resource-driven conflict are serious, genuine threats that demand urgent action. But as civil society organisations in Nigeria have argued, the response to a system under stress should be properly supporting local farmers and communities and restoring nature. Not transferring food sovereignty away from communities who depend on this land to an unaccountable foreign corporation.

People have a right to know exactly what deals are being struck in their name. And what’s more, they should have the right to choose a different food future.

The time of Billionaire impunity is over – climate justice can’t wait

While civil society organisations in Nigeria are raising their voices to demand agency over the future of the land, Greenpeace Africa is pressing for a legal framework to ensure giant polluters can finally be held accountable for the damage they cause to the Global South, no matter where they are based in the world.

That is why, in March this year, Greenpeace Africa petitioned the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to deliver a ruling  declaring as much. This would be a critical milestone in challenging the impunity with which corporations operate in Africa. 

Like Ferdinand said, “Make no mistake: JBS is the new Shell”. Because behind their promised development lies a business model that thrives on corruption, treating both nature and food not as fundamental rights, but as extractive resources to line the pockets of wealthy international elites.

The billionaires need to know that the era of corporate impunity on this continent is over. JBS was given 21 days to release the files and they now have 7 days left. The clock is ticking.

Elizabeth Atieno is a food campaigner at Greenpeace Africa

This blog was updated on 15 May to include a video from Greenpeace Africa about the action in the Netherlands.

Would you like to live next to a facility that slaughters 100 million chickens a year? I wouldn’t.

I’m Dániel Nyitray, a campaigner at Greenpeace International. Recently, I traveled to Croatia to join a community fighting an unimaginable threat: a massive meat factory mega project that aims to slaughter, in just one small town, four times more chickens than the entire country currently produces.

The Spirit of Sisak

In a country of fewer than 4 million people, concentrating a 100-million-chicken industry in one region is not “farming”, it’s an industrial invasion. After a 5,000-person rally in the capital, Zagreb this February, a grassroots coalition of 12 affected communities, supported by Zelena Akcija (Friends of the Earth Croatia) and Animal Friends Croatia, organized a follow-up protest in the town of Sisak.

As I stepped off a 10-hour bus ride from Budapest to Sisak, the energy was already electric. Sisak is a town of 40,000 people still bearing the scars of a major earthquake from five years ago. Despite the economic hardships the locals refused to be bribed by the empty promise of “new jobs.” We are all too familiar with the empty promises of big corporations; they are masters at promising the moon and the stars until the facility is built, only to become the worst neighbors imaginable.

The organizers held a short press conference, where the sheer number of media microphones showed the massive public interest. No wonder: they have the support of a nationwide famous singer, and Hollywood actor Goran Višnjić (ER’s Doctor Luka Kovac) sent a video message of solidarity. When the crowd started moving through the narrow streets, the sight of 3,000 people marching together was truly uplifting.

My favorite moment? A famous local musician leading the crowd in a folk song, rewritten to protest the mega-farm. When it was my turn on stage, I shared that their struggle isn’t isolated, it is part of a global network of “site battles” spanning from Mexico to Nigeria, from Spain to New Zealand. I closed with a line I practiced all morning: “Hvala, ali ne megafarmama!” (Thanks, but no mega-farm!)

If you want to raise your voice against Big Ag’s toxic greed and its destructive meat and dairy mega-projects, sign our petition here.

Big Ag’s Global Playbook of Dirty Tricks

Why are we so worried? Beyond the ethical nightmare of industrial slaughter, these projects are “Extractive Machines.” They pollute groundwater with nitrates (increasing cancer risks), pollute the soil and air, and overwhelm local infrastructure with stench, dust, and heavy traffic.

But Big Ag doesn’t play fair. They follow a “dirty playbook” similar to Big Oil. They target regions with high unemployment or weaker regulations, hoping the community is too desperate to fight back.

We see the same “Salami-Slicing” tactic everywhere: In Croatia the investor split the project into 20 separate permits to bypass a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment. We’ve seen this before: similar has happened for example in Spain, where a developer split a massive pig project into 25 units to dodge regulations. But, even this way, we’ll stop it!

In Mexico, my colleague Carlos reports a devastating situation in the heart of the Selva Maya forest: hundreds of industrial pig farms have invaded this beautiful rainforest, with the majority of them built without any legal permits, contaminating the biggest underground water reserve in Mexico.

Similarly, my Spanish colleague Luís has been fighting for years to stop the spread of these “animal factories.” When confronted, the factory farm industry tried to silence him with a lawsuit. While they have secured significant victories in the past, they are currently locked in a fresh battle alongside local residents in San Clemente, a little village in the forgotten, but beautiful Spanish countryside. Its new facility is designed to cram one million hens and produce over 235 million eggs a year.

Industrial meat and dairy production is even expanding its toxic model into new frontiers. JBS, the world’s largest meat empire, is planning a massive megafarm project for Nigeria. For decades, JBS has been the market leader in Brazil’s beef industry, which is the primary engine behind the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. In addition to being directly implicated in corruption scandals, JBS has through its supply chain relationships, been linked to severe human rights abuses and to cattle grazed illegally on indigenous lands. Now, to line the pockets of its billionaire shareholders, it is trying to expand this destructive model into Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria has already seen first-hand the devastation fossil fuel companies like Shell cause to their environment, human rights and the climate. Now, JBS is gearing up to follow. So local communities are fighting back.

Unfortunately, this list goes on and on. The pattern is undeniable: Big Ag corporations are aggressively pushing these mega-projects across the globe, completely disregarding the interests of local communities. Their goal is clear: to maximize profit at any cost, showing total indifference to the suffering of animals, the health of our food and water sources, the destruction of nature, and the lives of the people who live there.

Not Here, Not Anywhere

This isn’t just about chickens; it’s about Community vs. Extraction. Big Ag views our land as a commodity to be exploited and discarded. But the people of Sisak reminded me that our land is our heritage.

Our land is not just a commodity to be extracted, it is our heritage and the source of our life. 

But right now, Big Ag is sacrificing our home for selfish extraction. From the savannas of Nigeria to the villages of rural Europe, corporate mega-projects are bulldozing local livelihoods to feed an industrial machine that only serves a few. We are taking a stand to protect our land, our culture, and our right to a better world for future generations.

Not here, not anywhere.

Help us stop Big Ag’s expansion, sign our petition.

Dániel Nyitray is Global Campaign Lead for Big Ag at Greenpeace International based in Hungary.

The current energy shock is hitting people where it hurts most: household budgets. Fuel prices are up sharply, food is becoming more expensive and electricity bills are climbing. And while families pay the price, fossil fuel corporations are profiting from the instability driving those costs.

This isn’t a coincidence, it is how the fossil fuel system works.

When energy depends on globally traded fossil fuels, any disruption, whether that is war, geopolitical tensions or supply shocks, ripples through economies and lands in people’s wallets. This crisis is a warning light on a failing system and a signal to speed up the switch to renewables. That is where renewables come in as a practical, already deployed solution that is reshaping energy systems around the world.

1. Renewables now dominate new power capacity and outcompete fossil fuels on costs

In 2025, about 85% of all new electricity generation capacity built worldwide was renewable, mostly solar and wind. That is not a niche trend, it is a structural shift.

Solar and wind are now among the cheapest sources of new power in most regions, undercutting new gas and coal‑burning power stations and offering protection from fossil fuel price spikes. New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows that 24/7 renewables (solar, wind and batteries) can now beat new coal and gas on cost in many parts of the world, while staying reliable around the clock.

Countries like Costa Rica and Albania already get almost all of their electricity from renewables, showing what a high‑renewables system can look like in practice. Even in the United States, over the course of March 2026 the country got more electricity from renewables than from natural gas, which is usually the single largest source on the US grid, marking an important milestone in the transition. This is proof that a clean energy future is within reach.

That matters for households because cheaper generation helps reduce electricity bills. More importantly, once built, solar panels and wind turbines do not rely on fuel that has to be bought on volatile global markets. They produce energy from the sun and wind that are free and locally available. That breaks the link between international crises and domestic energy prices.

2. Battery storage and smart grids make wind and solar reliable

Battery prices have fallen sharply, with the cost of utility‑scale battery storage dropping by more than 90% since 2010, and large projects are now being built from Australia and India to Japan and the Philippines to store solar and wind power and release it when needed. At the same time, smarter grids, better forecasting and more flexible demand are allowing energy systems to balance supply and demand more effectively than ever before, including in countries that already have high shares of renewables on their grids.

The result is a system that does not rely on the constant burning of fossil fuels to remain stable. Instead of depending on a single fuel, it draws on a mix of renewables, storage and smarter infrastructure, like smart grids and virtual power plants, and that diversity creates resilience.

3. Critical minerals are a challenge, but far smaller than constant fossil extraction

All energy systems need materials. The difference is what happens over time. Fossil fuels require constant extraction: drilling, mining, transporting and burning coal, oil and gas every day for decades, with pollution and damage adding up all the time.

Renewables work differently. Building solar panels, wind turbines and batteries does need metals and minerals, but once installed they generate clean power for 20–30 years or more without burning fuel, and life‑cycle studies show much lower emissions and material use than the never‑ending cycle of fossil fuel extraction and combustion.

That does not mean we can ignore environmental or social impacts; it means we must cut demand through efficiency and public transport, ramp up recycling and reuse, and make sure mining never happens in no‑go areas or at the expense of communities and Indigenous Peoples. Crucially, it means moving away from an energy system that never stops extracting.

4. Clean, homegrown energy can shield households from price shocks

Countries that rely more on renewables and less on imported gas have generally seen smaller electricity price spikes than those locked into fossil fuels, including during the current shock following Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran.

Analysis shows that meeting renewable energy targets can cut electricity price volatility and reduce extreme price spikes, because wind and solar do not need fuel that can suddenly become scarce or expensive. China’s huge build‑out of solar, wind, batteries and electric vehicles is now helping it weather fossil fuel price swings better than many neighbours that stay dependent on imported oil and gas, highlighting how clean energy can act as a shield in times of crisis.

The same applies at the household level. Rooftop solar, electric heating and electric transport reduce exposure to rising fuel costs and make bills more predictable over time. In the UK, record numbers of people are now installing rooftop solar, with more than 27,000 installations in March 2026 alone, as families look for proven ways to cut bills for good. Once these systems are in place, they provide a level of certainty that fossil fuels cannot.

That is why demand for these technologies surges during crises. People are looking for ways to take control of their energy costs, and clean, homegrown renewables are the way out of a system where every new conflict or embargo can send bills soaring.

5. Community‑owned decentralised, renewables build real energy security and resilience

Energy security is not only about where power comes from, but also about who controls it and who benefits. Community‑owned and local renewable projects, such as village solar farms, local wind turbines or municipally run energy services, keep more of the benefits in people’s hands and reduce dependence on fragile global fuel supply chains and big energy companies.

“Decentralised” here simply means energy systems built from many smaller, local sources instead of a few huge power plants. In practice, that means a town with rooftop solar, a community wind turbine and a local battery is less exposed if a pipeline is cut, a tanker route is blocked or a single large plant fails.

In South Korea, for example, new “solar income villages” use community solar to fund public services while cutting dependence on imported oil and gas, showing how clean, homegrown power can support both livelihoods and security.

This decentralised model also matters for safety in a world marked by war and geopolitical instability. Huge, centralised power plants and cross‑border fuel routes can become targets or leverage in conflicts, while a web of smaller, local renewable systems is harder to disrupt and easier to repair. By scaling up community‑owned and homegrown renewables, governments can build an energy system that is cleaner, fairer and far more resilient when the next crisis hits.

The lessons from the Iran war energy shock are clear.  As long as we depend on fossil fuels, billions of people will stay exposed to external shocks they cannot control; prices jump when supply is disrupted and corporations profit from the volatility while people pay the price.

Renewables offer a better way. They cut exposure to global instability, can lower costs, weaken the grip of autocratic governments that control fossil fuel supply, and can be built in ways that share benefits with communities.

This requires more than swapping one fuel for another. It means replacing a fundamentally unstable system that routinely produces crises and profits from them with one that is fair, resilient and powered by clean, homegrown energy. Renewables are ready. Governments must introduce permanent taxes on oil and gas profits applied to all profits, back a global polluter‑profits tax under a UN Tax Convention with binding rules to stop profit‑shifting, and use the revenues to support households facing rising bills, massively scale up renewable energy, and fund the most climate‑impacted communities around the world.

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