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'Climate history shows that things can change very suddenly'
30 March 2026
Greenpeace and Shell once worked together. During the Solaris campaign in 1998, climate activists and the oil company sold solar panels to Dutch households. How did it come to that? And what can the climate movement learn from this? Professor of Dutch History Peter van Dam investigated this and talks about it in a Folia interview.
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