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New research finds plastic production in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan as major contributors to plastic, climate crisis
19 November 2024, Seoul, South Korea: A new research by Greenpeace East Asia exposes the significant role that petrochemical industries in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan play in fueling both…
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Greenpeace Audit Reveals Local FMCG Brands as Top Polluters in Rivers.
Taipei, Taiwan, November 7, 2024 – Greenpeace East Asia released a “Plastic brand audit of East Asian River Bank”, The audit found that 90% of waste in these rivers is…
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Greenpeace Publishes Taiwan’s First Systematic Research on Plastic Nurdle Pollution
Kaohsiung, Taiwan. October 28, 2024 – The fifth round of negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) will take place in Busan, South Korea, at the end of November. Since…
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Greenpeace Mazu Parade Targets Taiwan’s Petrochemical Expansion
Kaohsiung, Taiwan. October 29, 2024 – Ahead of the fifth Global Plastics Treaty negotiation(INC-5) Greenpeace held a creative parade today in the Linyuan Petrochemical Industrial Zone in Kaohsiung to challenge…
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In China, a Greenpeace “People Power in the Climate Crisis” workshop focuses on storytelling that goes beyond climate anxiety
Greenpeace East Asia’s Beijing office hosted a workshop for journalists and local NGOs in Hangzhou, China on 20th Sept., with a focus on storytelling during the climate crisis.
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From computer science to the alpine botanical garden
Growing up in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, Haixian studied computer science in the early 2000s, but ended up working at the Shangri-La Alpine Botanical Garden after graduation.
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Greenpeace Urges the Taiwan Government to Resolve the Garbage Crisis
Misallocation of Budget Has Turned Temporary Storage Sites into Garbage Mountains
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Tea trees are susceptible to temperature change. Can they survive the climate crisis?
Tea is big business in China, and central to entire regional economies.
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China’s conservation strong on area-based protections, weak on social drivers of extinction
China's policies focus on direct threats, but not the forces that create them.
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Filipino Domestic Helpers Go Beach Cleaning on Holidays: Hong Kong is my 2nd Home
Working in Hong Kong for over 17 years, a Filipino domestic helper, Angelina, chose to go beach cleaning on her Sunday with the Beyond Plastic team. They target beaches in different areas of Hong Kong, in particular those with severe coastal pollution problems. Their mission is to pick up every single piece of disposed plastic…