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Your favourite consumer brands are fuelling climate crisis

Group portrait of volunteers as they prepare to leave the Esperanza to begin their boarding action on a giant tanker ship carrying dirty palm oil from Indonesia to Europe in a peaceful protest against rainforest destruction. Trained Greenpeace volunteers from Indonesia, Germany, the UK, France, Canada and the US, have safely scaled the side of Stolt Tenacity. The 185-metre long cargo ship is loaded with palm oil from Wilmar, the largest and dirtiest palm oil trader in the world.

Some of the world’s best known brands are fuelling climate change by sourcing palm oil and wood pulp linked to Indonesian forest fires, reveals new Greenpeace International analysis This new analysis – based on the Indonesian government’s methodology for estimating emissions related to peatland fires – is a stark reminder that these fires resulting from industrial… Continue reading Your favourite consumer brands are fuelling climate crisis

World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims

The #team found that half of all #Bornean #Orangutans are impacted by #resource #extraction, and that their numbers fell by more than 100,000 over the sixteen years of the study -1999 to 2015

Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo

Borneo, Malaysia, forests and rains

Major international banks and brands connected to company controlled by notorious Indonesian business tycoon, knowingly clear-cutting tropical rainforests A new report exposes one of the largest cases in recent years of ongoing, illegal clearance of tropical rainforests in Borneo. Currently, approximately 10,000 hectares of peat forest have been cleared illegally for future palm oil plantations,… Continue reading Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo

Global Peatlands Initiative: Indonesia leading to Save the World’s Peat

Drained and burnt peatland is responsible for 5 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions Indonesia, the global peatland restoration leader, will reduce up to one gigaton of greenhouse gas emission The 2nd Global Peatlands Initiative Partner Meeting is attended by the Governments of Indonesia, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru, the United… Continue reading Global Peatlands Initiative: Indonesia leading to Save the World’s Peat