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Hundreds of Greenpeace activists and supporters call on SBY to take climate action

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 hundreds 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”.

Indonesian authorities evict climate defenders under pressure from forest criminals

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).

Global paper giant cancels APRIL contract to stop Indonesia rainforest destruction

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.

Greenpeace sends President Obama an urgent call to action from heart of South East Asia's rainforests

November 12, 2009

As Barack Obama prepares to fly to Asia for his first visit to the region as President, while the United States continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen next month, a 50-strong international team of Greenpeace activists issued him an urgent call to action from the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests.

SBY: revoke permits for pulp giant APRIL clearing Kampar Peninsula

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.

Obama rates worst at climate negotiations, Yudhoyono needs to walk the talk

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.

Greenpeace tackles climate change at frontline of Indonesian rainforest destruction

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.

Greenpeace calls on EU Funding for forest protection not destruction as it blocks import of palm kernel from Indonesia into France

October 30, 2009

Yesterday Greenpeace activists in two inflatable boats intercepted a ship in France, the Izmir Castle, carrying 15,000 tonnes of palm kernel from Indonesia in the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne. The Greenpeace activists painted "Climate Crime" on the hull of the cargo ship, while eleven other activists climbed on the top of three cranes unloading the cargo. They also unfurled banners reading "Funding for forest protection, not their destruction".

Greenpeace sets up base in Indonesia rainforest to prevent climate destruction

October 26, 2009

Greenpeace announced today that it has set up base in the heart of the Indonesian rainforest and will remain there for several weeks in order to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change, a critical issue to be addressed at the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

Greenpeace challenges ASEAN to get serious about climate threat

October 24, 2009

Greenpeace today challenged ASEAN leaders to demonstrate collective leadership to protect Southeast Asia’s 850 million people from the debilitating impacts of climate change by committing to zero deforestation and low carbon development, and to force the leaders of the developed countries to agree to deep and binding cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December.

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