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Toxic Pollution Knows No Borders: Greenpeace Thailand and EARTH Thailand Urge ASEAN Leaders to Adopt a Legally Binding Environmental Rights Framework
Ahead of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place from 24–25 May 2025 under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability”, Greenpeace Thailand, Ecological Alert and Recovery - Thailand (EARTH), and regional civil society networks are calling on ASEAN leaders to collectively endorse a legally binding ASEAN Environmental Rights (AER) framework…
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Hearings Begin in South Sumatra’s Peatland Smoke Haze Lawsuit
A legal battle over South Sumatra’s perennial peatland fire haze began in earnest today for accountability for smoke haze and other environmental impacts arising from the operations of pulpwood companies
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Green groups file landmark complaint to Malaysian Human Rights Commission for public inquiry into haze pollution as a human rights violation
A coalition of Malaysian civil society organizations is calling for a public inquiry and investigation into the sources of both domestic and transboundary haze with the aspired aim of getting systemic solutions for overcoming haze pollution and protecting our right to clean air.
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Greenpeace report finds Indonesia is losing the battle to protect peatlands
A new Greenpeace Indonesia report, Restoration Up in Smoke: Losing the Battle to Protect Peatlands, identifies major contradictions in the Indonesian government’s claims to meet its peatland restoration targets.
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Restoration Up in Smoke: Losing the Battle to Protect Peatlands
In the absence of independent verification of the progress of peatland restoration, Greenpeace decided to conduct an analysis of the present condition of peatlands in Indonesia. The goal of this analysis is to establish the locations of the degraded peatlands which have been prioritised to be restored by the government and to assess the condition…
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PM2.5 air pollution behind an estimated 160,000 deaths in world’s 5 biggest cities in 2020
PM2.5 air pollution was behind approximately 160,000 deaths in the world’s five most populous cities in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of IQAir data from a live Cost Estimator
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Methodology: Estimating the cost of air pollution in world cities (2020)
The Cost Estimator is an online tool that estimates the real-time health impact and economic cost from fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in major world cities.1It is deployed in a collaboration between Greenpeace Southeast Asia, IQAir and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). Estimates of real time health and economic…
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An area eight times the size of Bali has burned in Indonesia in the last five years, new Greenpeace report shows
Greenpeace Southeast Asia's new report ‘Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire’ exposes the total failure of Indonesia’s government to protect forest and peatland from burning.
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Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire
The 2015 fire season in Indonesia was the worst in nearly two decades, with the blazes for almost a month emitting daily carbon emissions that exceeded those from the entire US economy.
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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.
