The group mainly campaigned for UK to end the extraction of oil and gas by 2030.
Published On 26 Apr 2025
British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil has held its final demonstration in London, ending three years of high-profile climate protest stunts as they moved their focus away from civil disobedience.
On Saturday, several hundred supporters walked peacefully through the centre of the UK capital, from parliament to the headquarters of oil and gas giant Shell, where they removed their familiar high-vis orange vests.
The group mainly campaigned for the United Kingdom to end the extraction of oil and gas by 2030 and had become one of the country’s best-known protest organisations.
In March, the group announced it would halt its headline-grabbing protests, arguing it had accomplished its initial aim of stopping the UK approving new oil and gas projects.
More than 3,000 Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested since it was founded in 2022 and 11 of them are currently in jail, including 58-year-old co-founder Roger Hallam. Five more are due to be sentenced in May.
Stunts by its activists included targeting Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers painting with tomato