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Data from the global plastics waste trade 2016-2018 and the offshore impact of China’s foreign waste import ban
An analysis of import-export data from the top 21 exporters and 21 importers .
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Cash-strapped cities in China greenlight toxic land for development despite pollution: data
Beijing, 23 April 2019 - Chinese cities transfer polluted land sites on quick turnarounds that imperil proper clean-up and treatment, as many municipal governments depend on transfer fees for revenue, and in all made 104.9 billion RMB ($15.6 billion USD) in revenue from the sale of land plots, many former chemical plants, that were identified…
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China’s e-waste worth $23.8 billion by 2030
Beijing, 22 March 2019 - The value of metals discarded as electronic waste in China will total $23.8 billion USD by 2030, a sum that can be reclaimed through recycling and "urban mining" at cheaper costs than retrieving the same amount of metals through virgin ore mining, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia.
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Top 5 trends to keep your hopes up on climate
If you struggle to keep your chin up on climate change, we don’t blame you. To limit global warming within 1.5°C, climate scientists have urged us to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. But with world leaders showing no strong will to deal with the issue, it’s not helping.
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Beyond the beach clean-up
Greenpeace and local NGO Society of Wilderness have been working together to survey the ENTIRE 1,210 km-coastline of Taiwan and estimate how much rubbish is actually on our beaches. It took us just two weeks! Want to know how we did it? Read on…
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Despite corporate promises dirty palm oil continues…
Climate change is no longer a debate — we need to see serious action from brands that made commitments to stop destroying forests for palm oil.
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Greenpeace survey reveals impact of climate change on glaciers in China
Beijing, 20 November, 2018 -- The rate of glacier melt at key sites in western China has increased dramatically in recent decades, new research from Greenpeace East Asia shows. Satellite data shows rapid glacier retreat at locations in Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang, and reveals how glacier melt caused two major disasters in western China over…
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Why in a post-IPCC world we need more from our energy wins
The Taiwanese government’s decision to abandon plans for a new coal-fired power plant should have been a win for civil society. But it only underscored the need to keep fighting for a clean energy revolution, writes Cony Chang, Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.
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Welcome to our Consumer Revolution!
We’ve all been shopping stupid for years, snapping up “bargains” in sales, seduced by advertising, loaded down with stuff to fill our homes, thinking it will make us happy. But ultimately it doesn’t. It costs us and it costs the earth.
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Running towards a plastic-free future
Everyone is talking about plastic these days and how we need to get – at least the disposable stuff at first -- out of our lives. Viral images of strangled seabirds, giant islands of swirling trash in the Pacific Ocean, and delicate seahorses wrapped around plastic “earbuds” have made the world finally understand we are…
