Go Beyond Oil is a call to action. It’s a response to the BP oil spill and the prospect of rising global temperatures. It’s also necessary, if we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we’ve got to get ourselves off oil. It’s a journey that’s already started, but we need you to join us if we are going to get the world off oil.

The BP spill in the Gulf was a wake up call for many people, now we must take this opportunity to put an end to our oil addiction which is poisoning our oceans, our lands, the air we breathe as well as destroying our climate.

This is a massive challenge. Oil is a part of all our lives and the oil industry makes huge profits from our dependency on it. Oil companies are going to extremes and taking ever greater risks to squeeze the planet of its oil all the while they’re blocking the solutions that would free us from fossil fuels. The technologies already exist to wean the world off oil and we all deserve a future free of pollution - it s our choice and we can move beyond oil if we want to.

It won’t be easy, but we know what needs to be done – we need to stop risky oil exploration, end subsidies for the oil industry and invest in clean energy. There will be many trials along the way as we remove the barriers to clean energy - that’s why we need your help.

We are going to work together to expose the lengths the oil industry is wiling to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground. We will also put pressure on industry and government to move beyond oil. And together we are going to create a vision of how it can be done.

Go Beyond Oil is brought to you by Greenpeace. We stand for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace. We investigate, expose and confront environmental abuse by governments and corporations around the world. We champion environmentally responsible and socially just solutions, including scientific and technical innovation.

Right now we’re working in partnership with FairPensions, to help us all take one of the first steps on the journey towards getting ourselves beyond oil - making sure our pension money is helping to move the big oil companies away from oil.

Our friends at FairPensions are campaigning to promote responsible investment in the pensions and investment industry. They recognize the under-appreciated fact that the trillions of pounds invested in pensions have the power to change our world and that a focus on profit must be balanced with social and environmental responsibility to achieve sustainable long-term returns, a healthy financial system and the well-being of our planet. Sounds like good sense to us.