Press releases
November 21, 2009
Hundreds of Greenpeace activists and supporters from several of Java’s main cities today rallied in support of President Yudhoyono¹s international commitment to reduce carbon emissions from Indonesia. They called for his promise to be immediately put into practice by halting deforestation which is driving runaway climate change. More than 400 activists gathered early in the morning at Monas and marched down Jl. Sudirman to Bunderan Hotel Indonesia where they unfolded a banner reading, “Stop talking, start acting save the forests for our future”.
November 20, 2009
Greenpeace today marched to the Indonesian Embassy to call on its government to carry the full extent of environmental law on companies that are destroying the carbon-rich peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula in Sumatra. The group, rallying behind a banner that said “stop forest destroyers, not climate defenders”, delivered a letter addressed to Ambassador Irzan Tandjung.
November 15, 2009
The Indonesian police authorities, under orders from the Governor of Riau Province, will today begin the eviction of Greenpeace activists and local community members participating in the Climate Defenders camp on the threatened Kampar Peninsula in the heartland of Sumatra’s rainforest. Police and immigration authorities have also ordered the deportation of 11 international activists who participated in a non-violent direct action to expose and stop blatant and illegal destruction of peatlands by Asia Pacific Resource International Holdings (APRIL).
November 15, 2009
In a surprising move, the chief of police of Pelalawan district revoked an earlier order of Governor of Riau to evict Greenpeace activists participating in the Climate Defenders camp on the threatened Kampar Peninsula and has permitted them to stay following massive support from local communities.
November 13, 2009
Even as Greenpeace activists, who took direct action on Thursday to stop the destruction of peatlands in Kampar peninsula by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL), are being detained by the police in Indonesia, the global paper giant, UPM-Kymmene, has said that it will stop buying pulp from APRIL, who operates one of the world’s largest pulp mills in Riau and is responsible for causing widespread rainforest in Indonesia.
November 13, 2009
A new Greenpeace report released today in Manila effectively puts genetic engineering where it belongs—into the dustbins of history.
The report “Smart Breeding: Marker Assisted Breeding, a non-invasive biotechnology alternative to genetic engineering of plant varieties” focuses on the technical possibilities of Marker Assisted Selection or MAS and its strengths compared to genetic engineering. Particular attention is given to rice crops, drought tolerance, harnessing of biodiversity and breeding for better nutrition. The report shows how MAS renders genetic engineering—which is expensive and unsafe—obsolete and completely unnecessary.
November 09, 2009
Greenpeace today released fresh evidence of pulp and paper giant APRIL rampantly destroying peatland forests in the Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra. On the basis of the photos and map released today, Greenpeace is calling on Indonesian President Yudhoyono to immediately order his Forestry Minister to revoke APRIL’s permits to clear the carbon-rich deep peat forests.
November 06, 2009
Greenpeace today released a Guide to Climate Politics, highlighting the failure of world leaders to match their climate rhetoric with climate action. The guide demonstrates that we have no industrialized world climate leaders, only losers.
November 04, 2009
This morning, fifty Greenpeace activists took action to prevent the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and called on world leaders to end global deforestation, which is responsible for about a fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions (1). The call came as negotiators meet in Barcelona, Spain for the final round of talks before December’s critical UN climate summit in Copenhagen.
November 03, 2009
This morning, fifty Greenpeace activists took action to prevent the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and called on world leaders to end global deforestation, which is responsible for about a fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions (1). The call came as negotiators meet in Barcelona, Spain for the final round of talks before December’s critical UN climate summit in Copenhagen.
