SITUATION:
If youre a global automaker like Volkswagen and theres an environmental activist group that goes after you, youd prefer it not to be Greenpeace
Its one thing to get an angry letter or see a critical media announcement about your failure to reduce carbon emissions
With Greenpeace, you never know what theyre going to do just ask fishing boat owners in Japan or Korea
Or Shell, which last year saw shutdown at 74 of its petrol stations in the UK by Greenpeace activists dressed up as emergency workers closing off the facilities
SIGNIFICANCE:
Volkswagen has come to terms with its own CO2 reduction targets for its fleet in alignment with Greenpeace and the European Union
The automaker has been tweaked by Greenpeace, through the activist groups videos lampooning Volkswagens Star Wars themed popular commercial
But both sides have made nice with chief executives meeting recently and wrapping up about two years of conversations some of them very heated
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