Indonesia

HSBC: what they’ve said about funding deforestation, and why it’s wrong

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 8th February 2017
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Over three weeks ago, we exposed how HSBC is funding palm oil companies that are tearing up Indonesia’s forests. Since then, thousands of emails have been sent to the CEO. Now HSBC is responding to those emails, but what it’s saying is at times… Read More

4 reasons to tell HSBC: stop funding forest destruction

Posted by Joe Sutherland - 7th February 2017

HSBC claim to take sustainability seriously. But secret filming has caught a company funded by the bank bulldozing forests in Indonesia for palm oil. Since then over 200,000 people across the world have signed the petition demanding that it stops funding palm oil predators. We’ve raised our voices… Read More

HSBC boss grilled on Greenpeace campaign at Davos

Posted by Joe Sutherland - 25th January 2017

Last week we revealed that HSBC – the biggest bank in the UK – is funding palm oil companies who are destroying rainforests in Indonesia. People across the world have since demanded that HSBC stop its profit-hungry palm oil investments. In the first 24 hours of the campaign, 10,000 people… Read More

Revealed: HSBC linked to forest destruction

Posted by Annisa Rahmawati - 16th January 2017

This is a guest blog from Annisa Rahmawati, Senior Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Today we’ve let the cat out of the bag that HSBC – the biggest bank in the UK – is funding destructive palm oil companies. Now customers across the globe are… Read More

Three small letters destroying the rainforest

Posted by India Thorogood - 23rd September 2016
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Decades of forest destruction by palm oil and paper companies laid the foundations for 2015’s Indonesian forest fires. The Indonesian government responded with a firm commitment to crack down on rogue companies. Hundreds of thousands of us pushed brands like Colgate to toughen up their ‘no deforestation’ policies. But while… Read More

In pictures: In the palm of our hands, orangutans on their special International Orangutan Day

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 19th August 2016

Every year on the 19th August the orangutan gets its own special day. One of the renowned victims of the palm oil industry the orangutans are threatened with extinction due to the destruction of the tropical rainforest. The population of the Sumatran orangutan in the wild is thought to have fallen… Read More