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A Radioactive Ruse: Environmental threats posed by the Lynas Rare Earth Element processing facility in Malaysia.

20/06/2014

Lynas Corporation, Ltd. (Lynas) is an Australian rare earth elements mining company, built a refining and processing plant valued in excess of A$ 1 billion in Kuantan, on Malaysia’s eastern…

Greenpeace activists hoist a balloon bearing the message "STOP FUNDING CLIMATE CHANGE" at the entrance of the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Pasig City East of Manila. Greenpeace demands that ADB, Asia's largest institution lender stops supporting fossil fuel and dirty energy projects that cause climate change and inflict harm to thousands of people and instead aggressively fund renewable energy initiatives in the region. The ADB is set to release its energy policy in the next few weeks.

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#Climate #Forests #Impact

HSBC Stop funding forest fires in Indonesia

14/02/2017

Dissatisfied Malaysian customers today presented HSBC with a mock cheque to the value of 228,434 signatures urging the bank to “Stop Funding Forest Fires in Indonesia”.

Greenpeace deliver leaflets to HSBC staff and customers making them aware that the bank is funding rainforest destruction in Indonesia.

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New HSBC ‘no deforestation’ policy first step towards sustainable palm oil finance

21/02/2017

HSBC has just published a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy covering its financing of palm oil companies.

Greenpeace activists, dressed in giant mock plastic bags, hold up signs demanding an end to single use plastics in Southeast Asia in front of the Embassy of Vietnam in Manila. In a 2015 study, five member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia are stated as the biggest sources of plastics pollution in the world's oceans. Manila is set to host the upcoming ASEAN Summit. Greenpeace is hoping that ASEAN leaders will work together in crafting regional policy to ban single use plastics.

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Greenpeace tells ASEAN: Act on plastics pollution in region’s oceans

25/04/2017

Manila, Philippines – Acting on the urgency of the plastics pollution problem in the region, and with the upcoming Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Summit commencing in Manila, Greenpeace…

Indonesian forests in Papua. Greenpeace is calling for an immediate moratorium on all forest conversion in Indonesia to help curb the country's greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard the wealth of tropical biodiversity and protect the livelihood of forest dependent communities. Greenpeace's "Forests for Climate" ship tour to Indonesia aims to highlight the catastrophic impacts of deforestation for palm oil, logging and other industry expansion, on the global climate, biodiversity loss and forest-dependent people. Papua is the last frontier of intact ancient forest in Indonesia.

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HSBC triggers palm oil investigation to prevent forest destruction

10/07/2017

HSBC has just triggered an investigation into a palm oil company which is preparing to clear a huge area of pristine forest in Indonesia. This isn’t just any palm oil…

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