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Fashioning a sustainable future
Fast fashion, the darling of the high street, is turning out to be a faux pas. While it democratizes fashion, it also weaves a problem that is comparable to oil and gas in terms of global pollution: the waste that it generates.
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Why coastal clean-ups are not enough
After you clean today, new trash awaits tomorrow. It’s futile work and highlights how plastic pollution is more than a waste management problem.
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My career journey with Greenpeace
I realized that by fundraising and talking to people about Greenpeace Indonesia campaigns, I could also be part of the planet-saving community.
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West Papuan Indigenous Win As Jakarta Court Rules Against Palm Oil Company
Awyu Indigenous landowners and environmentalists have welcomed the Jakarta Administrative Court decision that has the potential to save 65,415 hectares of pristine rainforest, six times the area of the city of Paris
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ASEAN urged to provide implementing guidelines to protect Southeast Asian migrant fishers and ratify C-188
The ASEAN Declaration on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers is an important first step towards eradicating forced labour and human rights abuses in the fishing industry, but the declaration needs to be actualised in order to make a difference. Together with Team 9, we want ASEAN to move the discussion forward and provide…
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Thai Court rules on PRTR implementation to be carried out by Industry Ministry
Civil society will closely monitor measures set by the new government to address PM 2.5 issues as this threatens public health and well-being. We will call for a faster implementation, as health protection is the most urgent agenda.
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5 Reuse and Refill projects that are making a difference and leading the way to a plastic-free future
Developing countries are leading the way towards a reuse revolution with both their traditional reuse and refill systems, and their modern equivalents. Meet some of the people behind the movement!
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Tricked and Failed
I could only hope that the Indonesian government finally hears our cries for help and acts on our behalf to strictly enforce laws to end the cycle of abuse. Don’t let any more migrant fishers fall victim to injustice. It should end with me.
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Court Hears of Awyu Women’s Dependence on Customary Forest Land
Awyu woman Antonia Noyagi told the court of her people’s forestland management practices, and her fear that destroying the forest to make way for a corporate plantation will impact Awyu women above all others.