Air Pollution
Clean air is a right, not a privilege. Air pollution threatens our health and environment. And, we are defending our right to breathe clean air, one action at a time.
Across the country, millions inhale toxic air every single day. Haze from forest fires, industrial emissions, and outdated regulations are quietly eroding our health, our economy, and our future.
What We’re Facing
Many of our environmental laws and policies are severely outdated. As the climate crisis grows and its impacts of extreme weather and devastating disasters escalate, we’re not just facing pollution. We’re facing systemic failure. Outdated laws. Weak enforcement. Polluters acting without consequence. This isn’t just bad for the planet — it’s a direct attack on our health, safety, and basic rights. Clean air is not a luxury. It’s a non-negotiable right to life.
A silent public health crisis
32,000 lives are lost every year in Malaysia due to air pollution. Deaths that are entirely preventable. (Source)
The cost of inaction
Air pollution costs Malaysia an estimated RM303 billion annually, about 20% of our GDP. (Source)
We’re all breathing it in
99% of people in Malaysia are exposed to unhealthy air, every single day
What We’re Building Together
We imagine a Malaysia where clean air is a given, not a gamble.
Picture this: stepping outside and breathing deeply, without hesitation. The haze is gone. The sky is blue. You feel safe. Alive. In this future, clean air isn’t a privilege. It’s a guarantee. Protected and shared by all.
No more “haze is back”
Seasons pass without smoke. We wake up to blue skies, day after day, year after year.
Forests aren’t burned
Lush, living forests thrive protected by people, policy, and purpose.
Polluters are held accountable
Those who harm our air face real consequences and cleaner ways forward.
Fresh air, everywhere
Every breath, from city streets to quiet villages, is safe, clean, and shared.
Our Work for Clean Air
We’re working alongside communities to protect our right to clean air through campaigns, creative activism, and collective action that address pollution at its source.
ASEAN Malaysia 2025
We’re working to ensure Malaysia leads in shaping ASEAN’s commitment to transboundary air pollution solutions, from policy alignment to public pressure.
Clean Air for All Campaign
Since 2020, this campaign has rallied people across Malaysia to demand a Clean Air Act, pushing for stronger laws, real enforcement, and transparency.
How You Can Help Us
Together we can take on the world’s worst polluters and solve its biggest problems.
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Policy & JusticeEnvironmental Rights for Malaysia
Help us call on PM Anwar to show bold leadership in ASEAN 2025, delivering a strong, binding declaration on environmental rights.
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Climate & PollutionClean air for Malaysia
Sign the petition today to fight for clean air. Air pollution is a silent and indiscriminate killer, affecting all of us. And, we need our government to act swiftly to protect our basic right to clean air.
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Community & ActivismEvery donation counts.
We can’t do this without your help. Take action for environment protection, please make a donation today.
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Civil societies demand transparency and cross-border corporate accountability on haze at Indonesia Embassy
Greenpeace Malaysia and Himpunan Advocacy Rakyat Malaysia (HARAM) conducted a peaceful protest and memorandum handover today outside the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, in solidarity with haze affected communities and the loss of wildlife, to call the Indonesian Government for transparency and corporate accountability.
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Greenpeace Indonesia and Malaysia: Transboundary haze is not a new disaster, governments and companies must act faster and more decisively
Greenpeace Indonesia and Greenpeace Malaysia are calling for stronger, more transparent and coordinated emergency action to stop the forest and land fires that have once again triggered transboundary haze between Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Return of transboundary haze
Transboundary haze pollution is fundamentally a man-made environmental crisis, not an act of God. It happens when short-term economic goals are prioritised over environmental and human rights.
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The air I used to trust
On running, community, haze, and the people who don’t get to wait the haze out behind a closed window.
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What’s being done about haze?
Haze has darkened the skies across Southeast Asia for decades. While the smoke keeps returning, our response to it has changed over the years.
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Together we are part of a growing, global movement determined to bring about the changes our planet desperately needs.