SOUTHEAST ASIA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT YOU CAN’T SINK A RAINBOW Message from the Executive Director TABLE OF CONTENTS BreakingMESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Boundaries agreed to finally clean up its supply Inside chain, and governments in Southeast Asia committed to plastic reduction, You Cannot renewable energy and clean air. This Report We must mount aOur significantvictories in 2018 reassert ourresponse vision: the uproar of colourful, creative activism Sink a Rainbowto these growingcannot challenges. be drowned out. Indeed, It’s you more cannot sink a rainbow. important than ever to take a stand, What a time to be alive. It seems the perfect time to take a retrospective moment of silence for Yes, there is urgency Communities join Global Break Thai – our exposing root causes, working with "You demonstrated that people- "Thailand agreed to integrate Greenpeace's original flagship, the planet is getting sicker, with Rainbow Warrior, which met her powered impact is real." PM2.5 readings into their Right: Fuels Free activities against Fossil communities, and defending our rights. trees in short supply and untimely fate in 1985 after a bombing by calculations." plastics steadily becoming the French secret service. The tragedy Page 03 - Message from a permanent marine fixture. did not stop Greenpeace – the Rainbow At Greenpeace, we’re on a mission to save the planet from Throughout the year, we raised the alarm on air pollution the Executive Director Page 22 - Climate and Energy Warrior was reborn in 1989, and then environmental destruction, defend human communities from againfrom coalin 2011. power plants that were threatening the health exploitation, and build a better future for all. Over the years, and lives of people across Southeast Asia. Our own But above all, there is also hope we’ve achieved many victories for the planet, but with each team of firefighters, with volunteers from Indonesia and and unwavering resolve. This is what In 2018, our beloved Rainbow Warrior year that passes the scale of the world’s problems seems to Malaysia, continued its effort to help stop the destruction of continues to brighten our horizon at completed her first official Southeast intensify. peatland forests. We used creativity: electronic music raised Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Asian tour. During her five-month 2017 ANNUAL 2017 REPORT awareness for our rainforests, and through a dramatic art "When the world is sick and dying, "In 2018, and for the first time journey, the ship docked in solidarity In 2017, U.S. President, Donald Trump announced the U.S. installation, we called for an end to plastic pollution in our The past year saw many a heartbreaking with the people of Indonesia, Malaysia, people will rise up like Warriors ever, Malaysians celebrated would be withdrawing from the Paris accord on climate oceans. We also worked with young people, our planet’s event. Typhoon Mangkhut hit us hard. Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines of the Rainbow..." MAKE SMTHG Week." change, striking a major blow to international efforts to keep future, to pave the way for sustainable food and farming. The rise of global temperatures is who are confronting governments global temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius. In our quest for climate justice, we stood with communities unambiguous and irrefutable. Studies by and corporations to fight for a healthy in amplifying our call to hold big polluters accountable Page 08 - Rainbow Warrior Ship Tour Page 28 - Special Campaigns five separate organisations have revealed, environment. The year then went on to become the hottest on record, and helped rally the world to #breakfree from fossil fuels. that since 2014, we have survived the five maintaining a trend that is now strikingly alarming. Extreme We also achieved a significant victory: a global campaign warmest years ever recorded – with 2018 Some forty years after the Rainbow weather continued to batter Southeast Asia, displacing that took on the world’s largest tuna company resulted in the fourth hottest on record. Tragedy hasn't Warrior's first voyage in 1978, we remain millions and damaging livelihoods. The year also heard the protecting seafood workers and reducing destructive fishing buoyant with hope. Our aspirations global alarm bells ringingburied on plastic wasteus, in theit oceanshas practices. We at GPSEA recognise that the natural are bold, and perhaps daunting, but "Street artists around the world "Agriculture is projected and on land. Studies revealed that the number of intact world does not exist separately from they are not impossible, and we are forest landscapes globallyonly plummeted, made while the us level of All proof that if we push further, we can overcome even the portrayed the vibrant and vulnerable to produce 52% of global us humans. Hand-in-hand with the not discouraged. Your support and deforestation continued to rise. Amid all this, democratic most daunting challenge and achieve great things together. devastation of nature; bad governance, your everyday actions have driven the beauty of our ecosystem through greenhouse gas emissions in space globally and instronger the region continued and to shrink, while This year we also expanded our reach opening a new office statement-making art." the coming decades." corporate greed, terror attacksterror attacks,and human conflict and human rights abuses have momentumin Malaysia. for change. Yes, there is still human rights abuses continuedescalated. to more creative. much work to be done. That being so, we escalate, while wildlife populations lookAt Greenpeace, forward to fightingwe have thea big, good bold fight aspiration to make our Page 12 - Zero Deforestation Page 30 - Food For Life plummeted by 60%. It's enoughWe must to mountmake a significant response to these growing alongsideearth great you, again. our dear warriors, in the anyone succumb to ignorantchallenges. paralysis. It’s moreto important commit tothan sustainable ever to take seafood a stand, were coming years. But we haven't, and neitherexposing have you. root causes,a success. working You with used communities, artistic activism and This is a shout out to all our supporters and volunteers who defending our rights.to More raise is awareness demanded of of the us region's - we need to Mayshare the this spirit aspiration. of the RainbowWithout you,live onwe in would not have been The collective resilience ofgo Greenpeace beyond our comfortvulnerable zones and ecosystem confront through and challenge vibrant allable of tous. break boundaries. We look forward to winning more "Our investigation uncovered many communities around the whatworld is is wrong. We needmurals to andbreak performative boundaries. dance. You campaigns with you in the coming years. astounding. Tragedy hasn't buried us, campaigned to #breakfree from fossil regulation violations, including it has only made us strongerIn 2017, and morewe pushed fuelsthe envelope and single-use in all our plastic, campaigns, and to dumping and open-air burning." creative. breaking boundaries#DietForClimate. to change the world and create lasting impact. Greenpeace is known for its peaceful, high-profile Page 34 – Financials In 2018, you used the incredible power You demonstrated that people-powered Page 18 - Plastic Pollution creative actions meant to catalyse this transformation. We of your voice and imaginationinvestigate to make environmental impact crimes, is real. pursueFollowing action Greenpeace rather than Yeb SañoSaño a difference. Your efforts justto push words, the and inspirecampaigns, people to the confront world’s governments largest palm and Executive Director Director Photo Credit: Konrad Konstantynowicz Konrad Credit: Photo world's largest tuna fishingcorporations company as we workoil trader, to enable Wilmar solutions. International, Greenpeace Southeast Southeast Asia Asia 2 Annual Report 2018 4 3 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD (This page) Captain Hettie Geenen and ship crews dance with Papuan dancers during the welcoming ceremony of Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior ship at Together, Manokwari port, West Papua. We Are Unsinkable 1 2 3 Our pledge to raise the bar in defending the environment does not end here, there 4 5 6 will be more obstacles to overcome and 1. Alexandra Laforie-Yates 3. Dr. Sasie Smittipatana 5. Suzy Hutomo more difficult Alexandra joined the Board in 2015. Dr Sasie is an environmentalist, Suzy is an environmentalist, green truths to face. She brings extensive experience in psychologist and leader in marketing activist, an advocate of gender equality, auditing, finance, project management, and research in Southeast Asia. pioneer in eco-friendly business, crisis management, strategic She has extensive experience a marine conservationist and a We've said it before, and we year, we were delighted to welcome these better forest protection; in Malaysia, she development and the governance of in business management and corporate sustainability leader. will say it again: throughout believers on board our beloved Rainbow hosted a public forum on plastics; and large-scale international corporations is an active entrepreneur. She is also an accredited presenter the years we have seen this Warrior. For her very first Southeast the campaign for Climate Justice was the as well as Greenpeace International. of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. Asian tour, the iconic ship was warmly focus in Singapore and the Philippines. She has completed the International 4. Wahyu Dhyatmika community come together in greeted by thousands as she opened