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Landmark inquiry finds legal grounds to hold climate-destroying corporations accountable
This report is historic and sets a solid legal basis for asserting that climate-destructive business activities by fossil fuel and cement companies contribute to human rights harms. The message is clear: these corporate behemoths cannot continue to transgress human rights and put profit before people and planet.
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Activists send plastic waste back to Nestle, call out company for greenwashing
Nestle continues to figure in waste and brand audits as one of the worst polluters. The company also ranks 6th among global fast moving consumer goods companies in a recent Break Free From Plastic report on false solutions, with Nestle leading the way in terms of questionable “plastic neutrality” agreements with other companies.
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Protect Indigenous Peoples and Forests: Revoke Plantation Permits for PT Permata Nusa Mandiri
JOINT STATEMENT Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability in Tanah Papua
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Desperate forest clearing, legal uncertainty follows bungled permit review
The Indonesian government’s half-hearted forestland permit review has created a perverse incentive for forest clearing by companies desperate to retain dormant land banks. Greenpeace is calling for the policy to be clarified, to ensure companies whose permits are listed for revocation are not allowed to undertake such panic clearing.
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Forest areas must be protected after Indonesian President revokes permits
Jakarta, 7 January 2021 – Greenpeace has welcomed as long overdue the cancellation of thousands of mining, forestry and plantation permits by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, but warned that forest areas must be returned to protection and Indigenous land rights respected, rather than a new round of extractive licences issued over the same locations.
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Thai coastal communities unite against the Chana industrial project
In 2018, the Thai Cabinet approved a big-budget industrial project in the area, calling it the Chana Industrial Park project which includes the construction of industrial facilities, deep-sea ports, and coal fired power plant. However, the approval was made without any local participation and many questioned the government for its lack of inclusion and transparency.
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West Papuan Indigenous Rights vs Palm Oil Company Land Grab: Landmark Court Case Enters Decisive Final Week
NGOs are stepping up calls for Indonesia’s national government to show support for Indigenous rights in West Papua as a landmark court case enters its final week of hearings.
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Building better food systems for people and nature
We are inspired when the people take back their power to create alternative food systems that are more collaborative, socially just and environmentally sustainable.
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Seven Indonesia’s State Officials Found Negligent for Jakarta Air Pollution
After two long years and eight sentencing delays, The Central Jakarta District Court ruled in favour of citizens fighting for clean air.
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Plastic worsens the climate crisis, from the Philippines to the United States
Plastic comes from fossil fuels and the consumer goods companies pushing plastic on our communities from the United States to the Philippines are making the climate crisis worse.
