Environmental Rights for ASEAN
Greenpeace Malaysia is mobilising people nationwide to urge the government to make environmental rights a priority as Malaysia chairs ASEAN in 2025.
Under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s leadership, we have a rare chance to set a new regional standard: a legally binding framework that protects vulnerable communities, ensures clean air, and holds corporations accountable.
Our Approach
We work on three key fronts to make environmental rights a reality in Southeast Asia:
Advocacy at the highest Level
Lobbying PM Anwar and ASEAN leaders to adopt a region-wide, legally binding environmental rights framework that safeguards clean air, safe water, ancestral lands, and protection from environmental harm.
Accountability through investigations
Exposing environmental destruction across borders, from forest fires linked to land clearing to fossil fuel expansion, and demanding justice from corporations and governments.
Community power
Amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples like the Orang Asal and Asli, and mobilising public support. With over 10,000 signatures collected, we’re proving that people across Malaysia demand bold, decisive action.
Our Projects
We aim to drive bold campaigns and strategic actions to protect environmental rights across Malaysia and the ASEAN region.
ASEAN Peoples’ Forum
Alongside over 200 allies from across Southeast Asia, we co-hosted side events on transboundary haze and corporate responsibility at the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum.
Community advocacy & awareness
Through a symbolic hike at Taman Tugu, we brought people together in nature for reflection, connection, and collective action for the fight for environmental rights.
Research and policy recommendation
We partner with Greenpeace Indonesia to develop a research report, building on burn scar analyses reported in 2019 which show recurring fire patterns tracing back to 2015.
How Can You Help
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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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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.