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Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office, accusing 47 companies in the palm oil, mining and forestry sectors of corruption and environmental destruction, allegedly causing 437 trillion rupiah (US$26.5 billion) in state losses.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous Filipinos hope carbon credits can protect their forests
Indigenous leaders in a Philippines protected landscapes sign a landmark deal to try to reduce forest loss with carbon credits.
Food & Agriculture
Philippine Indigenous communities lead forest restoration to mitigate urban flooding
Indigenous communities in the Philippines’ Mount Kalatungan protected area have since 2015 carried out a tree-planting campaign to restore native vegetation lost to decades of commercial logging and agriculture.
Carbon & Climate
Southeast Asia’s environmental defenders on the frontline
Environmental defenders across Southeast Asia face threats, violence and legal hurdles in their fight for justice. Five share their struggles.
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News / Energy
Malaysia’s CCUS projects will result in more emissions released than captured from gas fields: RimbaWatch study
The watchdog warned that there is a "wide trend" of CCUS initiatives in Malaysia being linked to fossil …
