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Taiwanese global electronics giants are failing to transition to renewable energy use, despite committing to their largest customers including Apple, Google, and HP to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their global supply chain.

Ensuring future water security in Vietnam will depend on meeting a host of critical challenges including emerging water stress, fast deterioration of water quality, and rising water-related disaster risks, resulting in a must to implement solutions to improve water productivity. Rapid increase in water demand will lead to water stress to 11 out of 16 river basins in Vietnam by 2030 during the dry season.

“We commend the Dutch government for taking a strong stance in favour of freedom of expression and peaceful activism. Although Greenpeace International was not a party to this settlement, we are gratified to see the Russian government’s agreement with a declaration confirming the substance of the international tribunal’s ruling.

The Government of Peru, WWF and partners announced a commitment of $140 million to expand and effectively manage almost 17 million hectares of protected areas in the Amazon.

“We commend the Dutch government for taking a strong stance in favour of freedom of expression and peaceful activism. Although Greenpeace International was not a party to this settlement, we are gratified to see the Russian government’s agreement with a declaration confirming the substance of the international tribunal’s ruling.

Ministers 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 not to share information regarding the palm concessions they own.

Greenpeace has partnered with a group of musicians to record an ice concert in the far north of the Arctic. They played a piece called ‘Ocean Memories’ on instruments carved from ice collected in Arctic waters.

The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and lead to sweeping change in agriculture and food production and consumption.

Plastic bottles and garbage waste from a village in Timor-Leste wash on the shores of a river and then spill into the sea.

My favorite place by Olga Lavrushko, Ukraine. One of the winners of the International Forest Photograph Contest.