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RSPO Weakens Standard on No Deforestation, Misses Opportunity to Become Compliant With Incoming EU Deforestation Regulation
In its revised Principles and Criteria the RSPO has scored an ‘own goal’ by weakening its commitment to ensuring No Deforestation, its very raison d'être.
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Report: Indonesia’s Chronic Forest Fires – 2023
Greenpeace Indonesia's latest analysis shows that the indicative area of forest and land fires in 2023 was 2.13 million hectares. This figure is almost twice the size of the government’s data.
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South Sumatran Residents Sue Plantation Companies Over Peatland Smoke Haze
South Sumatran residents attended Palembang District Court this morning to register a lawsuit against three plantation companies over the chronic smoke haze that has blighted their lives.
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Samai Panthakote: Community Leader and Defender of Forests
The government claims that the wind turbine project is good for carbon offsetting. But this area already has forests rich enough to store carbon. This lush forest is our home.
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Who’s Enjoying the Profits? Indonesian Corporations Feigning Transparency
In our new report ‘Feigning Transparency' we find there are loopholes in Indonesia's new beneficial ownership transparency policy, allowing corporations to legitimately continue to conceal where profits are flowing to.
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Deforestation: Playing With Fire | An analysis of Indonesia’s FOLU Net Sink 2030 policy
Greenpeace Indonesia's analysis of the FOLU Net Sink 2030 policy found that this policy could backfire on the effort to ensure the survival of the nation’s forests. Instead of absorbing emissions, the FOLU Net Sink 2030 strategy risks perpetuating deforestation and the destruction of natural forests.
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Indonesian President’s COP28 Speech Parodied Over Food Estate Failures
Activists have parodied Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s disastrous food estate spruiked yesterday in his speech to the United Nations climate talks in Dubai
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Asia Pulp and Paper Sinarmas slammed over broken no deforestation and peatland promises
Greenpeace International today released a review and 10-year report card exposing the broken promises of Asia Pulp and Paper Sinarmas (APP Sinarmas) on deforestation, peatland and social conflict in its Feb 2013 Forest Conservation Policy.
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The RSPO dodges responsibility for its members’ role in Indonesia’s fires crisis
Greenpeace International’s newly published report Burning Down the House shows that 21 of the 30 palm oil producer groups most strongly associated with Indonesia’s ongoing fires crisis are (in whole or part) members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Collectively these RSPO members and their associates account for three-quarters of the fire hotspots…
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Joint NGO statement on failure of RSPO to meet the demands of global climate crisis
Last year, RSPO members approved a new set of Principles and Criteria that align with the global “No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation” policies of many of its members. Yet the RSPO’s new standard will only be meaningful if it is audited and upheld in a thorough, comprehensive and competent way.
