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, we established an agreement with one of the largest paper consumers, Kimberly-Clark, to stop purchasing wood fiber from endangered and intact forests; increase the recycled content of its products; and to only buy virgin fiber that is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. Kimberly-Clark (maker of products such as Kleenex) has set a goal of obtaining 100% of wood fiber used in its products—including Kleenex—from environmentally responsible sources. Kimberly-Clark also set goals to ensure that 40% of its North American fiber is recycled or certified by the FSC by 2011. Within this same timeframe, Kimberly-Clark agreed to eliminate any fiber from the North American boreal forest that is not FSC-certified. This new policy will protect forests, preserve habitats of threatened wildlife, and help reduce the world's annual fossil fuel emissions by storing an estimated 186 billion tons of carbon. As a result, Greenpeace agreed to suspend the campaign and will meet with Kimberly-Clark regularly to help reach the agreed goals.

, we won a significant legal victory in 2009. Greenpeace and five other groups chalked up a win in federal court in December against the U.S. Forest Service's Orion North timber sale, in a roadless area on the Tongass National Forest near Ketchikan, Alaska. In the decision, Tongass Conservation Society v. Cole, a permanent injunction barred the sale of Orion North timber and associated road construction in order "to protect public resources." The court concluded that the failure to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (as had been requested earlier by plaintiffs) "subverts NEPA’s [National Environmental Policy Act] purpose" and "skews the balance of the environmental and economic costs and benefits of the project."
 
, we gained new commitments from U.S. based-corporations to stop Amazon deforestation and supported our colleagues in Brazil to push for a moratorium on forest destruction. In a Greenpeace report, cattle products, such as leather to make shoes, from ranches involved in illegal Amazon deforestation were traced to top brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Timberland, Geox, Clarks, Nike, Carrefour, Gucci, IKEA, Kraft and Wal-Mart. Greenpeace built pressure in the United States. Nike implemented a new leather policy to require its suppliers to establish a tracking system over the coming year, which will ensure with 100% confidence the origin of their leather from ranches in the Brazilian Amazon. Nike also signed on to Greenpeace’s ‘Commit or Cancel’ principles that call for a moratorium on deforestation and commit the company to stop sourcing from the Amazon. Responding to Nike’s new policy, Timberland implemented a policy that will ensure the leather used in its boots and shoes is not contributing to global warming or new deforestation in the Amazon. The policy will act as a guide to Timberland’s Brazilian leather procurement process. In addition, it sets a deadline for Timberland’s suppliers to publicly commit to a moratorium on cattle expansion into the Amazon.

Accomplishments: , we convinced several large seafood retailers to commit to sustainable seafood procurement policies, support marine protected areas and marine conservation policies. When we began this campaign in the summer of 2008, all 20 of the retail chains ranked in our analysis were given failing scores. Since then, we have seen significant forward progress.   The second iteration of the ranking, released in December 2008, highlighted four retailers – Whole Foods, Ahold, Wegmans, and Harris Teeter – that had improved their practices enough to be given a “passing” score. The third ranking in 2009 tracked further progress on the part of three out of the four aforementioned retailers, and also identified three additional companies – Target, Safeway, and Wal-Mart – that had raised their scores to passing.
 
, we convinced delegations from member countries to continue the ban. We supported Greenpeace in Japan and we continued our diplomatic work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the State Department urging the Administration to pressure Japan to end whaling in the Southern Ocean. We laid the groundwork for an upcoming complaint to the United Nation’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its relevance to the two Greenpeace Japan campaigners facing criminal charges for publicly challenging whaling. We supported activities at the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco and the Japanese Embassy in DC in support of whales.
 
, U.S. staff spent two weeks out of the three-month tour on the Rainbow Warrior, patrolling the waters off Libya, Tunisia, Malta and Italy for illegal fishing. U.S. staff also joined a Greenpeace crew in the South Pacific in the fall of 2009. Dozens of vessels were inspected.

, the U.S. House voted to pass a Greenpeace supported bill that would require the highest risk plants to convert to safer and more secure chemicals and processes. To gain support, we involved citizens in the campaign by launching the "Do Not Kill List" on our website, which racked up more than 17,300 signers in support of the bill in a few days. Next we used an interactive web based map of the United States showing how many chemical plants in each state put 1,000 or more people at risk. In response, activists sent personalized emails to Congress. We organized press conferences in 18 states to localize the chemical security issue during the summer, highlighting plants in need of conversion and those that have already done so. We created maps showing the schools and hospitals in the vulnerability zone of plants.
 
, Greenpeace received word in November that Clorox will be switching production methods at all of its factories to eliminate the use of chlorine gas. This will eliminate the risk of injury or death to 13 million Americans in the case of an accident or attack on one of these plants. This announcement also provided Congress with another important push to pass comprehensive chemical security legislation.