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Asia Pulp and Paper Walks Back on its 2013 Commitment to No Deforestation
Asia Pulp and Paper Walks Back on its 2013 Commitment to No Deforestation
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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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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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Greenpeace finds Asia Pulp and Paper guilty of peatland clearance and fuelling forest fires in Indonesia
As the fire season looms in Indonesia, Greenpeace Southeast Asia revealed that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest pulp and paper company, owned by the Sinar Mas Group, has been actively clearing Sumatran peatland for pulpwood plantations in direct breach of its own commitments to preserve and restore carbon-rich ecosystems and…
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Greenpeace’s Response to Sime Darby Announcement to Exit from the HCSA Steering Committee
In response to Sime Darby announcement to exit from the HCSA steering committee, Grant Rosoman Global Forest Solutions Coordinator for Greenpeace International said:
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Global health crisis, an additional reason to protect and restore carbon-rich peatlands–Greenpeace
Greenpeace Southeast Asia warns President Jokowi’s plan to convert carbon-rich peatlands in Central Kalimantan into paddy rice fields may lead to another environmental disaster in times when the country’s efforts should be focused on protecting these crucial ecosystems.
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Palm oil giant IOI moves to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from supply chain
The IOI Group, one of the world’s largest palm oil traders, has today made a significant commitment to address deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain.
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Concrete action needed to protect critical peat landscape
Ketapang / Jakarta, March 29, 2017 - Peatland violations committed by the logging company PT Mohairson Pawan Khatulistiwa (MPK) in Sungai Putri forest, have resulted in an investigation carried by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. After submitting a report of the destruction of peat forests in this landscape, International Animal Rescue Indonesia, Greenpeace Indonesia…
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Even deep peatlands are destroyed in tiger habitats
Greenpeace activists continued to bear witness to the pathetic sight of Sumatran forests being destroyed by pulp and paper companies.