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Covid-19 stimulus is a key chance to invest in power sector and create solar jobs
Weak policy support for renewable energy blocks energy development in Malaysia and disincentivises foreign investment in Malaysia’s energy sector, despite Malaysia having perhaps the highest technical capability in the region, a Southeast Asia power sector scorecard report from Greenpeace Southeast Asia shows.
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Southeast Asia Power Sector Scorecard
How Southeast Asia meets growing energy demand is a crucial challenge in the fight against climate change. Yet while countries around the world have made huge strides towards renewable energy solutions, new fossil fuel power plants that have no place in 2020 or beyond are still being built.
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Twenty in 2020
20 years is truly a milestone worth commemorating and provides the perfect moment to say a big thank you to all our dedicated and very special staff, supporters, donors and…
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Forest Fires Haze: New Greenpeace report reveals alarming health impacts and links to severity of COVID-19
Governments in Southeast Asia have massively downplayed the health impacts of Indonesia’s forest and peatland fires according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
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Burning Up: Health Impact of Indonesia’s Forest Fires and Implications for the Covid-19 Pandemic
As Indonesia braces for the 2020 forest fire season, a timely review of data of the effect on smoke-affected communities shows consecutive governments have been consistently and massively underestimating the impact on human health.
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Greenpeace demands sustainability and due diligence on human rights for tuna industries in Southeast Asia
Lack of support and accountability for migrant fishing crew remain a failing issue, with only 20 percent of major southeast Asian tuna brands providing measures to reduce, or eliminate modern slavery at sea.
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Sustainability and Justice on the High Seas: 2020 edition Southeast Asia Canned Tuna Ranking
The fourth edition of Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s Tuna Cannery Ranking. Nine canned tuna brands in Thailand, five tuna canneries in Indonesia, and six tuna canneries in the Philippines were evaluated.
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Health experts call for reusable PPE to protect people and planet
Health experts around the world today endorsed the use of well-made reusable masks or gloves that are properly sanitised in order to protect the environment from pollution as well as our communities from the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nestle Malaysia’s unsustainable move from plastic to paper straws
Nestle (Malaysia) Bhd announced that it plans to adopt paper straws across its entire range of ultra-high temperature (UHT) by year end. Although Nestle claims this move will help in tackling the plastic pollution crisis, it is a misguided one.