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Campaigns & Boycotts

Our mission is to make global businesses more sustainable through consumer pressure.

Alongside our readers, we campaign on ethical issues. We currently: 

 

Active Consumer Boycotts

Our boycott list is widely regarded as the most comprehensive English-language list of progressive consumer boycotts.

We regularly add boycotts to the list and you can help by emailing the news editor with any relevant information.

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Tax Justice

Corporate tax abuse continues to make headline news with more and more companies outed as tax avoiders. We aim to help consumers campaign on the issue, including running our Amazon boycott campaign.

Find out about Tax Justice

Agricultural workers in southern Spain

Ethical Consumer is asking supermarkets to take responsibility for the rights of migrant workers who grow their fruit and vegetables.

UK supermarkets depend on the regions of Almeria and Huelva in southern Spain to supply them with fresh fruit and vegetables. But for two decades, farm owners in these regions have been violating the rights of migrant workers who pick this fresh produce.

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Climate Gap Report

We are not on track to meet international emissions reduction targets. So what is the gap between where we as consumers are and where we need to be? And what actions couldwe take to address it?

Rob Harrison and Josie Wexler introduce a new report from Ethical Consumer to help identify how consumers, governments and companies can work together to help fix the climate crisis.

Read the 2021 Climate Gap Report summary and actions

Campaign Partnerships

Save Our Bank

When most of The Co-operative Bank's shares were sold to private shareholders in 2013, a group of bank customers, supported by Ethical Consumer, formed the Save Our Bank Campaign.

We now help run the campaign and the Customer Union For Ethical Banking, which has seen the bank return to mutual ownership.

Find out more and and join the consumer union

Lush Spring Prize for regeneration

The Lush Spring Prize is a collaborative project between Lush and Ethical Consumer. It annually awards £200,000 to projects around the world that are working towards environmental and social regeneration.

Find out about the Lush Spring Prize

Lush Prize against animal testing

The Lush Prize is a collaboration between Ethical Consumer and Lush Cosmetics; a £350,000 annual fund to reward groups or individuals working in the field of cruelty-free scientific research, awareness raising and lobbying

Find out about the Lush Prize