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Indonesian Forest Fires Crisis: Palm oil and pulp companies with largest burned land areas are going unpunished
A total of 3,403,000 hectares (ha) of land burned between the years 2015 and 2018 in Indonesia, according to analysis of official government burn scar data. In 2015 alone more than 2,600,000 ha of land burned. The fires that ravaged Indonesia in 2015 are considered one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 21st century…
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Communities and Greenpeace volunteers clean up beach and conduct plastic brand audit in Songkhla
On International Coastal Cleanup Day, around 60 volunteers from the Songkhla Forum, Beach for Life, and Greenpeace together cleaned up the beach at Laem Son On in Songkhla province.
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Community reps, Greenpeace activists blockade Shell facility in Batangas to call for climate justice
Batangas City, Philippines – Ahead of the coming week’s global mobilizations for the climate, representatives from climate-impacted communities, together with Greenpeace activists, blockaded the entrance to the Batangas refinery of fossil…
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An open-letter to Shell
My community is demanding justice for the thousands of lives killed, their hopes and dreams that will never come to fruition because of greed, apathy and deceit that the fossil fuel industry has supported.
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Why we’ve had enough of broken promises to protect forests
Today, while the Amazon fires capture international headlines, fires have also been raging here in Indonesia as well that harming the life of so many people.
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Greenpeace calls on fast food giants to take a stand against Bolsonaro’s Amazon destruction
As fires continue to ravage the Amazon, Greenpeace International has launched a campaign asking fast food giants Burger King, McDonald’s and KFC to reject goods linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon and across Brazil.
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Greenpeace halts engagement with Wilmar-Unilever-Mondelez over continued failure to take necessary action to cut deforestation from their supply chains
According to the recent IPCC report, land use, including deforestation, makes up 23% of greenhouse gas emissions. Companies such as Wilmar, Unilever and Mondelez must stop buying from any source that is linked to deforestation.
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Greenpeace Indonesia’s response to the planned move of the Indonesian capital to East Kalimantan
President Joko Widodo yesterday announced his government's decision to relocate the Indonesian capital to East Kalimantan, to an area straddling Penajam Paser Utara and Kutai Kartanegara districts. Greenpeace Indonesia has several environmental and governance concerns related to this decision as the move will require the conversion of forests and land for urban development, which will…
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Greenpeace recommendations for Thailand’s plastic management roadmap to mitigate the impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife and iconic species
Thailand's alarming plastic pollution has been linked to the recent deaths of animals and endangered species-- most recently a wild deer and a baby dugong.
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We must put an end to modern-day slavery at sea
With the ever growing demand for seafood, commercial fishing vessels need to work overtime and catch as much as they can, whenever they can. For such a labor-intensive business, you would need a lot of man-power. Men from Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines end up working on these ships. For most, their freedom…