Clean Air Rights
Every year, Malaysians say the same thing: “The haze is back.” It’s become an expected part of life, but it shouldn’t be.
The haze crisis, air pollution from industries, and poor enforcement aren’t seasonal inconveniences. They’re a public health emergency. And our work focuses on breaking this harmful cycle.
Our Approach
We believe clean air must be protected at every level, from policy to public awareness. Here’s how we tackle the problem:
Expose the truth
We investigate polluters, track hotspots, and use data to identify the root causes of haze and air pollution.
Empower communities
We work with allies, artists, researchers, and affected communities, and supporters to raise awareness and demand change together.
Influence policies
We push for stronger enforcement, clearer air quality standards, and sustainable solutions at the national and Southeast Asian levels because haze knows no borders.
Our Projects
We use art installations, creative activism, and policy recommendations to expose the real cost of haze pollution and demand long-term solutions. These actions center the voices of communities who are often left behind — those breathing the dirtiest air with the least protection.
Creative activism
We’ve teamed up with artists like Ernest Zacharevic, Cloakwork, Pangrok Sulap, Kai Yi Wong, Fahmi Reza, and more artists to turn spaces into powerful calls for clean air. Through murals, installations, and bold visuals, we turn and art into activism.
Events & activities
From art exhibitions to film screenings, we bring people together to confront the haze crisis. One highlight: Hazilla, our haze-themed film screening, made possible with the support of our allies, artists, and community members.
Policy recommendations
In 2021, we joined CERAH to file a haze complaint to SUHAKAM, calling it a human rights issue. This led to Silent Enemy, a national report urging stronger laws like a Clean Air Act. We back SUHAKAM’s push to bring it to Parliament.
Community storytelling
Co-curated with communities disproportionately affected by haze, we share the stories as a testament to resilience, as a space to give voices to survivors, sharing awareness to the public.
Regional advocacy
Air pollution crosses borders, so must the solutions. We work with our offices across Southeast Asia to strengthen regional policies, support forest fire prevention teams, and push ASEAN to act on transboundary haze.
Investigations & exposure
From exposing companies linked to illegal burning and deforestation to tracing dirty supply chains, we hold major polluters accountable. Our investigations pressure corporations to clean up their act and demand real enforcement from authorities.
How Can You Help
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Environmental 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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Clean Air for Malaysia
Air pollution and haze is a silent and indiscriminate killer, affecting all of us. Sign the petition calling for our government to take action for clean air today.
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Every 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 society groups take new haze findings to Parliament
The demonstration follows newly released findings by Greenpeace Indonesia and Malaysia with Pantau Gambut, identifying the top 20 companies and corporate actors linked to haze-source spots and fire-affected areas in Indonesia, including Malaysian and Singaporean-linked companies.
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The haze is not normal
Year after year, the haze comes back. Then we get used to it. We stop asking questions. We stop paying attention. maybe it is time we stopped treating the haze as something inevitable. Maybe it is time we stopped treating the haze as something inevitable.
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When Clean Air is Sacrificed for Global Commodities
This fact sheet sets out comprehensively how the global market drive for palm oil commodities and the forestry industry continues to perpetuate the crisis of forest and land fires (karhutla) on peatland in Indonesia.
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Malaysian and Singaporean in top 20 entities linked to fires in Indonesia
Human tragedy and environmental crisis resulting from forest and peatland fires return to claim lives, underscoring poor environmental governance in Indonesia.
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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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