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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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Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire
The 2015 fire season in Indonesia was the worst in nearly two decades, with the blazes for almost a month emitting daily carbon emissions that exceeded those from the entire US economy.
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Greenpeace Philippines reactive on Duterte’s call for stronger climate commitments at UN
Filipinos cannot afford to suffer more. President Duterte must use this opportunity to declare a Climate Emergency that will enable a recovery that will transform our economy and society to tackle the climate crisis and promote positive environmental and health outcomes. Doing so will help build resilience against future shocks, and ensure a society that…
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Southeast Asia Power Sector Scorecard: Assessing the progress of national energy transitions against a 1.5 degrees pathway
The inevitable end of coal power has been known by policymakers and project developers for decades, and was formalized by the ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
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Southeast Asia power sector scored: Bottlenecks and bailouts pose major climate risks
The scorecard maps business-as-usual and best-case-renewable-energy scenarios for eight countries -- Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar -- using International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degrees pathway. This graded snapshot of each country’s energy transition, fossil fuel exclusions, solar and wind market development, policies and pricing, competition, and Covid-19 stimulus…
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Why are Indonesian fishing crews dying?
With easy access to mobile technology, migrant fishers are able to document their mistreatment and often, evidence of illegal fishing and bycatch, such as shark finning. It’s led to an outpouring of attention and renewed focus on forced labour, human trafficking, and other forms of exploitation that have been commonplace on industrial fishing vessels for…
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Twenty in 2020
As I look at what is happening right across the region today, I draw great inspiration and hope from the younger generation, who through climate marches, strikes and innovative public actions, is channelling the same pioneering spirit of our founders to hold governments and corporations to account for their actions and activities.
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Burning Up: Health Impact of Indonesia’s Forest Fires and Implications for the Covid-19 Pandemic
As Indonesia braces for the 2020 forest fire season, a timely review of data of the effect on smoke-affected communities shows consecutive governments have been consistently and massively underestimating the impact on human health.
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Forest Fires Haze: New Greenpeace report reveals alarming health impacts and links to severity of COVID-19
Governments in Southeast Asia have massively downplayed the health impacts of Indonesia’s forest and peatland fires according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
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Greenpeace Southeast Asia on the latest case of Indonesian migrant fishers onboard Chinese fishing vessel Liao Yuan Yu 103, requesting immediate rescue by Indonesian authorities
In the past six years, Greenpeace Indonesia and Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (SBMI) have received 338 labor abuse complaints of Indonesian migrant fishers onboard foreign fishing vessels. It is important to note that this kind of case is recurring because of the lack of proactive and effective actions taken by Indonesian government in the last…