{"id":51645,"date":"2023-04-22T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/?p=51645"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:00:28","slug":"all-we-want-for-raya-is-clean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/press\/51645\/all-we-want-for-raya-is-clean-air\/","title":{"rendered":"All We Want for Raya is Clean Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greenpeace action fights for clean air in this Raya and Earth Day, raising awareness on the need for a haze-free Malaysia<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-malaysia-stateless\/2023\/04\/cdbde4e2-dsc00164-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong><em>Kuala Lumpur<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Greenpeace Malaysia unfolds a banner in front of the Petronas Twin Towers with a clear message for clean air this Raya celebrations.<br><br>Authorities have been on high-alert for haze as unhealthy levels of air pollution continue to rise, with several states including Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kelantan and Johor experiencing polluted airways.<br><br>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/publication\/50016\/different-air-under-one-sky-report\/\">report released<\/a> by Greenpeace in 2022, an estimate of 100% of Malaysia\u2019s total population was exposed to PM<sub>2.5<\/sub> levels that exceeded the World Health Organisation&#8217;s (WHO) Guidelines that\u00a0 recommends 15\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 as the threshold concentration of PM2.5 for 24 hrs.<br><br>The banner deployed at Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) reads &#8216;All We Want For This Raya is Clean Air&#8217;, to mark Earth Day falling on the first day of this year&#8217;s Hari Raya celebrations, with a demand for our government to develop stronger policies addressing air pollution.<br><br>Among the solutions Greenpeace Malaysia proposes for stronger policies and enforcement includes a Clean Air or Transboundary Haze Pollution Act and amending the current 1974 Environmental Quality Act to include air pollution standards in line with the WHO Guidelines on PM2.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace action fights for clean air in this Raya and Earth Day, raising awareness on the need for a haze-free Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[75,108],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-51645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-pollution","tag-air-pollution","tag-human-rights","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53636,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51645\/revisions\/53636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51645"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/malaysia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=51645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}