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One million hectares burned inside Forest Moratorium area, Greenpeace analysis showsAugust 8, 2019Greenpeace mapping analysis shows that 1.2 million ha of forest has been lost inside moratorium areas in the seven years since it was first introduced, at an average annual rate…
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President Jokowi must accept fires verdict and show he is serious about ending forest fires and people’s sufferingJuly 23, 2019The Supreme Court of Indonesia last week rejected an appeal filed by President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo against a ruling that his national administration and its provincial counterpart failed to do…
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Greenpeace Statement on the ASEAN Framework of Action on Marine DebrisJune 24, 2019The Bangkok Declaration and the ASEAN Framework of Action on Marine Debris is a good example of how regional action can be achieved to address a common challenge. However, the…
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ASEAN leaders welcomed by “mountain of trash” and calls to ban plastic and e-waste importsJune 20, 2019Activists holding banners saying ‘No Space for Waste’ unveiled the spectacle during a protest by environmental groups, including Greenpeace, and community representatives from across Thailand outside the Ministry of Foreign…
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Greenpeace statement to Golden Agri-Resources responseJune 19, 2019"Eight years ago, GAR committed to forest protection and extended that to cleaning up its third-party suppliers in 2014. After five years we would have expected any serious company to…
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Community Rights Advocates Challenge to ASEAN Leaders: End the Toxic Trade in Plastics and E-WasteJune 18, 2019As the 34th ASEAN Summit gets underway, chaired by Thailand under the theme of “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability,” community rights advocates from Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are uniting to challenge…
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50 million hectares of forests destroyed worldwide, as palm oil sector in Indonesia continues unreformedJune 11, 2019By 2020, at least fifty million hectares of forest – an area the size of Spain – is set to be destroyed for commodities despite ten years of corporate commitments…
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Groups say goodbye to Canada waste, urge PH government to ban all waste imports immediatelyMay 30, 2019The Philippines bid goodbye to the Canadian waste, six years after it was discovered in Philippine ports, environmental groups are calling on the Philippine government to ban all waste imports…
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Malaysia’s government returns imported plastic waste to global northMay 29, 2019
Greenpeace statement on In response to Malaysia’s decision to send imported plastic waste back to the countries that produced it, such as the UK and Canada.
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Indonesian government actively blocking efforts to reform palm oil industryMay 16, 2019Ministers in the Government of President Joko Widodo are blocking efforts to reform the palm oil industry. Last week the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs ordered palm oil companies…