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Policy Brief: Southeast Asia’s struggle against the plastic waste trade
As leaders from the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare to meet in Bangkok for the 34th ASEAN Summit this June, it is perhaps surprising to note that the issue of plastic waste imports does not currently feature on the three-day agenda. Indeed, the last year has seen…
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50 million hectares of forests destroyed worldwide, as palm oil sector in Indonesia continues unreformed
By 2020, at least fifty million hectares of forest – an area the size of Spain – is set to be destroyed for commodities despite ten years of corporate commitments to end deforestation, according to a new Greenpeace International report.
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A wave of support to save our oceans
Life on earth would not exist without the vast blue waters that cover more than 70% of the planet. The oceans provide us the oxygen we breathe, the fish we eat, even life-giving medicine sourced from the deep.
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Groups say goodbye to Canada waste, urge PH government to ban all waste imports immediately
The Philippines bid goodbye to the Canadian waste, six years after it was discovered in Philippine ports, environmental groups are calling on the Philippine government to ban all waste imports in the Philippines and ratify the Basel Ban Amendment.
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Malaysia’s government returns imported plastic waste to global north
Greenpeace statement on In response to Malaysia’s decision to send imported plastic waste back to the countries that produced it, such as the UK and Canada.
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Indonesian government actively blocking efforts to reform palm oil industry
Ministers in the Government of President Joko Widodo are blocking efforts to reform the palm oil industry. Last week the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs ordered palm oil companies not to share information regarding the palm concessions they own.
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New research exposes a crisis in the global trade of “recyclable” plastics
Hong Kong / Berkeley, USA — Water contamination, crop death, illness, and the open burning of plastic waste have all flooded into Southeast Asia along with the world’s “recycled” plastics,…
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Green groups to Nestlé: “Own up, pay up, clean up your act!”
Manila, Philippines — A day before Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting, over a hundred activists belonging to the global #breakfreefromplastic movement trooped to Nestlé’s Philippine headquarters today to demand accountability for…
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Groundbreaking scientific study maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030
London – As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over…
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Plastic invades ‘centre of the centre’ of global biodiversity hotspot
Batangas- Greenpeace Philippines has documented plastic pollution in Verde Island Passage, as the group deployed its iconic ship, the Rainbow Warrior, to investigate plastic pollution in the Philippines. A three-day…