Cases / Lobbying, PR and greenwashing · Indonesia · 2018
Greenpeace ends all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over deforestation links
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Greenpeace International said in May 2018 that it was ending all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over links to deforestation. Clearing and restoration claims about APP and APRIL in the sources reviewed are not verified.
What?
Greenpeace International ended all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas in May 2018 over links to deforestation. Greenpeace International
Where?
Indonesia Greenpeace International
When?
May 2018 Greenpeace International
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Greenpeace ended engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over deforestation links; the sources do not verify the further clearing claims. Greenpeace International
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
Greenpeace International said in May 2018 that it was ending all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over links to deforestation.
The sources reviewed also name APP and APRIL in later clearing and restoration claims, but these are not verified.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: APP-linked activity cleared at least 75,000 ha of critical ecosystems and 3,500 ha of peatland from 2013 to 2022, after its zero-deforestation pledge (Environmental Paper Network and Jikalahari report).
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: APRIL's 60-year, 20,265 ha restoration concession granted in 2013 while logging continued on Pulau Padang (Mongabay Indonesia, 10 May 2013).
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: APRIL manages about 150,000 ha under its restoration programme and plans to sell Verra carbon credits.
- None on record Who gained financially, and the effect on forests and peat, is not stated in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts— Press and investigations✓ Communities and civil society— Researchers
Communities and civil society
- Greenpeace slams APP/Sinar Mas over links to deforestation, ends all engagement with companyGreenpeace International · 2018-05
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- Resolute Forest Products v Greenpeace Canada · 2012–2024
- Sinar Mas (Company) — here: group named alongside APP; there: Indonesian group named in Greenpeace Canada's ownership investigation