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International brands “cooking the climate” as world’s governments prepare to discuss future of the planet

08 November 2007

A month before the world’s governments gather in Bali to decide on the next phase of international measures to combat climate change, a Greenpeace investigation reveals how a handful of the world’s leading brands are complicit in destroying Indonesia’s peat swamp forests, a potential source of substantial additional emissions of greenhouse gases. Peatlands already account for 4 per cent of global emissions. (1)

Greenpeace welcomes Swedish oil giant's decision not to use palm oil

01 November 2007

Greenpeace welcomes the decision by Swedish petrol giant OKQ8 to abandon plans to use palm oil in their new biodiesel Eco20. The announcement comes after prolonged campaigning by Greenpeace and other environmental groups against palm oil production, which destroys native rainforest, often by burning, to make way for massive palm plantations.

Greenpeace blocks the destruction of Indonesian peatland forests to limit greenhouse gas emissions

29 October 2007

Greenpeace volunteers today halted the destruction of an area of peatland swamp forest held by the PT Duta Palma palm oil company in the Riau province of Sumatra, Indonesia. They are building five dams across three-metre deep canals used in logging and draining peatland for conversion into a commercial palm oil plantation which would breach Indonesian regulations for forest protection and release large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Greenpeace launches Forest Defenders Camp in Indonesia

09 October 2007

Jakarta, 9 October 2007 - Greenpeace today opened the Forest Defenders Camp (FDC) in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of its international effort to protect the world's remaining forests and the global climate prior to the Kyoto protocol climate negotiations taking place in Bali in December.

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