Annual Report 2022 ｜Greenpeace

2022 ANNUAL REPORT EAST

ASIA

In March 2023, governments finally secured a Global Ocean Treaty at the United Nations! The very first Greenpeace briefing on this topic was written way back in 2005, and over the years we’ve gathered the voices of 5.5 million people globally to build a movement to protect our oceans! Winning this treaty took decades, and we are so glad that your support has made this possible.

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Impacts beyond borders

In a year where we’ve seen frequent reminders of the scale and acceleration of environmental and the climate crises, we’re incredibly grateful that Greenpeace East Asia has earned the trust of more than 224,000 supporters in 2022. Your backing helped us achieve many successes in the region and beyond.

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EU to ban deforestation-linked goods

We campaigned for two years, with over 160 concern groups and our many supporters, to convince the European Union bloc of 27 nations to pass a strong antideforestation law. This law bans imports of meat, soy, palm oil and other commodities linked to forest destruction, saving precious forest ecosystems like the Amazon.

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ocean protection target in sight

lands and oceans

Your amazing support helped us push the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada to agree on a landmark deal that aligns with Greenpeace’s call: to protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030.

An historic move towards climate justice after years of campaigning: The 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt reached a breakthrough agreement on a new Loss and Damage finance fund for vulnerable countries and communities.

The rapid growth of East Asia’s technology sector has led to a sharp increase in global greenhouse gas emissions. After we highlighted this development in our reports, tech giants including Sony, Samsung, Tencent and Alibaba, announced more ambitious carbon neutrality goals.

An historic UN Ocean Treaty was reached in March 2023 after almost two decades of negotiations. This keeps our 30×30 target — protecting 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 — alive and provides a pathway to creating fully- or highlyprotected marine sanctuaries across the world’s oceans!

Our East Asia team has been pushing hard for the entire car manufacturing supply chain to adopt a holistic decarbonisation programme. We secured announcements from Toyota and Hyundai saying they will speed up efforts to reduce their carbon footprints.

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Arctic Sunrise

Witness

-200 million tons of CO 2

Norwegian state-owned oil company Equinor postponed work on Wisting, which would have been the world’s northernmost oil field. In reality, this means the oil field will not go ahead and 200 million tons of CO 2 will stay below ground and not add to the climate crisis. It’s a great win for both the climate and the Arctic’s vulnerable environment!

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Greenpeace partnered with local communities in Thailand to support a local solar fund, helping to install solar rooftop panels for seven public hospitals and six colleges so far. Following the success of our trial, Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health will now support similar large-scale renewable installations for hospitals and health centres.

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Demand for massive cuts in single-use plastic is unstoppable! We have had big wins in Taiwan in terms of policy and corporate change, Hong Kong said it will accelerate legislation on a single-use plastic ban and for the first time included a time frame to do so!

Scientists have long warned about the potential for irreversible damage to the ocean floor from deep sea mining. In 2021, we began a huge push to end this industry for good. So far the governments of New Zealand, France and Germany have heard our call and they are urging for a halt to destructive marine mining activities.

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Rainbow Warrior

Dear Greenpeace supporter:

For the first time in three years, we are able to begin our message to you from a place of real recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The world is finally emerging from this global health crisis, and I’m sure, like us, you feel not only relief but great hope too that the resilience our communities demonstrated over the past three years can be leveraged to help us face an even bigger crisis — the climate emergency.

The strength and resolve the world showed then must be called up again now to protect our planet. Greenpeace East Asia operates in a region critical to global environmental protection, and we are proud of the many campaign achievements we’ve made, from plastic bans in Hong Kong and Taiwan, to carbon neutrality commitments made by tech giants like Samsung Electronics, Sony, Tencent and Alibaba. Everything we have achieved comes from your generous support.

While all governments in East Asia have committed to net zero, we will continue to build a larger movement with partners, supporters and people like you who share the sense of urgency, thereby enhancing the momentum to raise the climate ambitions of governments and companies.

Today, we stand at a crossroads. The decisions we make now will have far-reaching consequences for the future of our planet, the health of our children, and dramatic as it sounds, the survival of many people. Your trust in us is our strength and so more than ever before, we are glad and hopeful to have you by our side.

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Board Chair, Greenpeace East Asia

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THANK YOU!

It’s really special to know that, around the world, people — everyone from stay-at-home mums to retired entrepreneurs to tech workers to college students — care about investing in a brighter future.

Thank YOU for being a part of this movement for global good. We remain deeply humbled by your support for a better and greener future.

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Meet Robert:

Capturing Hong Kong’s natural beauty through his lens for 30 years

“As everyone fosters a genuine connection with nature, this place will persist as a cherished sanctuary of the natural world.”

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photographer Robert Ferguson

There’s this perception that Hong Kong is a concrete jungle but so many people don’t realise that there is also so much nature here. According to wildlife photographer Robert Ferguson, 36,000 species call Hong Kong home. “I can see more bird species in a single day in Hong Kong than I can in 10 years back home in England!”

His book and website Hong Kong Wild Creatures brings the beauty of Hong Kong’s natural environment to a wider public. Robert lives his life through looking, finding, discovering, learning, loving and protecting. “I think that’s so important when we look at education, for example. Getting kids out into our natural environment because it’s through them engaging with non-human animals that they will begin to appreciate that we’re not separate, that we’re all part of this natural environment.”

Robert has followed migratory birds and tracked snakes in Mai Po, Sai Kung and Tai Mo Shan. He believes that country parks, which make up about 42% of Hong Kong’s land, are vital to maintaining biodiversity. “I see the people of Hong Kong becoming more and more attached to their natural environment and I see the government going completely the opposite way, which is focusing only on development and economic growth.”

With such passion for wildlife, it is only natural that he is concerned about environmental protection. Like you, Robert is a Greenpeace supporter. “I think it’s more and more important that we have organisations that actually are independent and able to speak up.”

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In return for your help, we will gift you a selection of Robert’s images to use as desktop or mobile backgrounds. And you’ll also get a chance to win Robert’s latest book WILDCREATURES OF HONG KONG!

Global climate: Relentless action in a turbulent year

Thanks to your commitment to Greenpeace, we have been able to bring about substantial wins for our planet despite facing so many global challenges. Persistence brings hope.

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2022-2023 TARGETS:

Adopt a multi-strategy approach to push governments and corporations to be socially responsible; strengthen national and regional climate policies; boost renewable energy; and focus on East Asia’s key industries.

Victory! The UN agrees to a ‘climate justice’ fund

The climate crisis is causing more extreme weather events and small countries and island nations are bearing the brunt of these disasters despite their low carbon footprint. Thanks to you, we finally witnessed an historic moment at the 27th UN Climate Conference (COP27): rich nations agreed to set up a “loss and damage” fund to compensate climate-vulnerable countries for destruction linked to the climate crisis.

The Philippines was named by the UN as one of the “most affected countries”, in part because of the powerful typhoons it has suffered in recent years. In 2022, Greenpeace and some local youth groups set up renewable energy projects in the worst affected areas, such as Bohol and Bulacan, to help communities rebuild and recover.

Greenpeace will continue to monitor the UN fund’s operations to ensure it is being used not only to compensate climate-vulnerable communities for their losses, but also for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Stopping 200m tonnes of CO 2 , saving the Arctic!

You and 8 million others helped us stop Shell in 2015 from drilling in the Arctic. But we didn’t stop there. After a yearlong campaign, in 2022, we stopped Norwegian stateowned oil company Equinor’s

plan to explore the world’s northernmost oil field, Wisting. That meant 200 million tonnes of CO 2 (equivalent to more than six years of Hong Kong’s total greenhouse gas emissions) were saved from being sent into the atmosphere. Together we’re protecting the fragile Arctic!

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A Greenpeace delegation member (first left) serving as an official observer during COP27, bringing your voice into the United Nations’ conference hall.

Driving change: targeting the automotive industry

The transport sector is responsible for a staggering 21% of global carbon emissions from fuel combustion. Steel production, oil consumption, battery production and mineral extraction also contribute to emissions and that’s before the cars even make it onto roads.

With so many of the world’s top carmakers in East Asia, this region has a unique ability to have an enormous impact on easing the climate emergency.

That’s why we have been pushing hard for a comprehensive and holistic decarbonisation across the entire supply chain. We want governments and the automotive industry to commit to phasing out fossil-fueled vehicles and make zero-emission cars widely available and affordable.

In Korea, we teamed up with the metal workers’ union to survey their members and found that more than 80% supported a ban on fossil fuel cars by 2035. We also published a report on how the world’s top 10 carmakers were doing on carbon reduction. Toyota and Hyundai responded by announcing more ambitious pro-climate policies, including increasing numbers of electric vehicles and accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles.

Korean President Yoon Sukyeol pledged to ban new fossil fuel cars by 2035, while Japan extended subsidies for anyone wishing to buy a green vehicle, such as electric cars.

Greenpeace will continue to push top carmakers to commit to developing low carbon policies from the supply chain to point of sale.

“The automotive industry operates on a global scale and involves a complex production chain. Thanks to our regional team of experts in East Asia and our 50 years’ global experience in environmental lobbying, we have started making great progress. We are optimistic about our ongoing efforts to push Asian car manufacturers towards faster action in achieving zero carbon emissions.”

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In June 2022, Greenpeace activists targeted Toyota’s annual conference, prompting the global automotive giant to increase electric vehicle sales goals and accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles of their Lexus brand.

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Future-focused tech: getting the ICT industry to cut carbon

The electricity consumption of the flourishing global ICT industry is expected to grow by more than 60% between 2020 and 2030. How fast the sector can reduce emissions will play a big part in whether we can keep the rise in global average temperatures to within 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Media widely covered our study that rated 30 ICT companies in East Asia on carbon reduction performance, helping to start talks between our policy advisors and corporate management.

In 2022, Japanese electronics giant Sony announced that its own operations would be 100% renewable by 2030, and its whole supply chain would be “carbon neutral” by 2040. Then, Korea’s Samsung said it would go 100% renewable by 2050,

while Chinese tech leaders GDS, Alibaba and Tencent made the same promise for 2030.

Greenpeace will continue to push East Asia’s tech giants to take action now, switch to clean energy and do their bit to stop the climate crisis.

In the shadows: nuclear dangers persist

Right from its beginnings, Greenpeace has called for a global ban on nuclear energy because of the dangers to humanity. After the 1986 Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine and 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Greenpeace’s specialist science teams made many field investigations, including 34 field radiation tests to date at Fukushima to assess the disaster’s impact on human health and the environment.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has reignited fears of another radiation leak around the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Greenpeace sent an international team of radiation experts to investigate inside the highly contaminated 30km exclusion zone. The scientists found that radiation levels were at least three times higher than officially reported.

Nowadays, we need facts more than ever before to understand the real situation. While maintaining our independence, we seek the truth for the public. This investigation also revealed the long-term risks of nuclear power.

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In July 2022, Greenpeace conducted the first independent investigation of nuclear radiation in Ukraine since the RussiaUkraine war. Their findings highlighted the potential dangers of nuclear power and the need to phase it out globally to safeguard the environment and humanity.

Climate policy is also people policy

The climate crisis affects our lives in so many ways from extreme weather to food supplies. In Hong Kong, Greenpeace has been pushing the government to focus on people as well as the environment in making climate policies.

Outdoor workers in the climate crosshairs

July 2022 was Hong Kong’s hottest month on record since 1884. We responded by teaming up with the Hong Kong Catholic Commission for Labour Affairs to survey outdoor workers who have to brave the stifling weather. More than half of them said they had suffered heat-related illness as a consequence of the extreme hot spell.

In the great Greenpeace tradition of “bearing witness”, our campaigner Tom Ng experienced firsthand the baking hot conditions that those workers faced. His video was viewed more than 78,000 times on Facebook, raising awareness of climate injustice suffered by outdoor workers in Hong Kong.

Protecting outdoor workers with new laws

Greenpeace was invited to join a consultation on revising the Guideline Notes on the Prevention of Heat Stroke at Work. We argued for adopting a separate and legally-binding Occupational Safety and Health Regulation for heat-related illness.

An updated guidelines were implemented in May 2023, where employers were advised to provide measures in accordance with any Heat Stress at Work Warning issued.

How is Hong Kong doing on carbon neutrality?

The Hong Kong government has set 2050 for the date when it will go carbon neutral. In November, we released an audit of how different departments were progressing and found that many had not yet set a timetable or roadmap for going carbon neutral and many policies were outdated. We urged the government to set quantifiable emission targets and to realise its carbon neutral goal by 2050.

At the same time, we will continue to act as a watchdog, checking if renewable energy development policies, such as the Feed-in Tariff, are providing sufficient incentives for an energy transformation.

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Greenpeace campaigner Tom Ng wears full protective gear and carries a 23-kg piece of equipment to experience first-hand the challenges faced by the pest control operators in scorching weather.

© Greenpeace Greenpeace in Hong Kong released an audit report that reviewed the government departments’ climate actions, urging the government to lead by example and accelerate the journey towards carbon neutrality in society.

© Greenpeace Greenpeace researchers use heat stress monitors to measure meteorological data in outdoor working environments in Hong Kong.

Biodiversity: Building momentum for worldwide protection

We exposed the threats to our planet from as far afield as previously unexplored parts of the Antarctic and took them to the heart of global talks. With your support, we have made two huge breakthroughs — one for biodiversity and one for the oceans!

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2022-2023 TARGETS:

Push for international consensus to protect a minimum of 30% of land and oceans; the establishment of strong implementation and monitoring mechanisms; and official recognition of the roles and rights of indigenous peoples to take care of their environments.

Embracing 30×30, recognising indigenous rights

In 2010, world leaders set forth the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, a set of 20 goals aimed at curbing biodiversity loss. Regrettably, almost none of these goals were achieved within the designated 10-year timeframe. Scientists warn that we are currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction, and we cannot afford to squander another decade.

In December 2022, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) convened in

Montreal, bringing together world leaders and representatives from 188 governments to collectively address the urgent need to combat habitat destruction and species extinction.

This pivotal event presented an opportunity that we couldn’t afford to miss. Greenpeace was present, leveraging major media outlets to advocate for leaders to take decisive action and prioritise biodiversity on the global agenda.

Ultimately, a landmark agreement was reached, establishing goals and targets for global action on nature, which encompass the protection of 30% of land and oceans by 2030, as well as the recognition of indigenous rights. Greenpeace played a crucial role in advocating for this agreement, and we are fully committed to closely monitoring its progress to safeguard biodiversity on a global scale.

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Greenpeace offices globally employ diverse strategies to protect forests, including biodiversity research (pictured above), onsite documentation of environmental crimes, international lobbying, direct actions, and rainforest firefighting team training.

A 17-year voyage to a Global Ocean Treaty!

Under pressure from millions of people around the world, governments finally secured a Global Ocean Treaty at the UN in March 2023 . It sets the rules and tools for protecting ocean life. Most importantly, it provides a pathway to creating protected areas across the world’s oceans.

It followed a 17-year commitment from Greenpeace to save life on our planet and this monumental win for ocean protection is a great reminder that taking action makes a difference and that people power works!

5.5 million people signed up for success!

Currently, oversight from regional organisations are the ocean’s only protection, and too often commercial development trumps conservation needs. Only 1% of the world’s high seas have any adequate protection at all. Back in 2005, Greenpeace wrote its first briefing on this issue called Black Holes in Deep Ocean Space, paving the way for marine reserves to be accepted as a workable solution.

After relentless campaigning by civil society and Greenpeace, including collecting millions of signatures and working tirelessly behind the scenes lobbying decision makers, in March 2023 the UN finally passed what is the biggest conservation deal in history.

● Greenpeace policy advisors attended the conference, talked directly with governments, and worked with local offices to lobby delegates on the importance of reaching a strong deal

● We were the voice of 5.5 million people who signed our petition, including residents from coastal communities and famous US actress Jane Fonda

● We went creative with a whale art installation and projections outside the UN Headquarters in New York to raise public awareness

● In the final months of our campaign, we made over 1,000 headlines in top media to get all eyes on the negotiations

This historic Global Ocean Treaty keeps Greenpeace’s 30×30 target — protecting 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 — alive. It provides a pathway to creating

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Greenpeace projects a massive display on a New York landmark during the Global Ocean Treaty negotiations.

highly protected areas across the world’s oceans. Greenpeace has teamed up with leading scientists to create a blueprint for where these sanctuaries should go, and we’ll be campaigning to make this a reality.

Stop deep sea mining before it starts

Deep sea mining is a new industry that aims to extract metals and minerals from the seabed. However, it is highly destructive and could permanently damage the oceans, threatening their ability to help fight climate change. That is why Greenpeace has been pushing for governments to ban this destructive industry, before it has a chance to start We have successfully convinced 12 countries, including France, Germany and New Zealand, to call for a precautionary pause, stop, or a complete ban on deep-sea mining.

A drop in the ocean!

Dropping boulders in the ocean is an environmental action that works. The protective underwater barriers help stop bottom trawlers from continuing to wreck the ocean, and the tactic has proved to be effective to protect our oceans while governments are adrift. Under immense pressure, the United Kingdom announced in May 2022 that it will ban bottom trawling from four of England’s offshore Marine Protected Areas, followed by Sweden implementing similar measures in September.

Protecting coral with an historic dive

In 2022, researchers on board a Greenpeace expedition to identify vulnerable ecosystems on the Antarctic seafloor conducted what is believed to be the southernmost scientific submarine dive in history, at 65 degrees south. Their findings led to the official protection of seven vulnerable deep-sea coral hotspots by the Antarctic Ocean Commission in November. It safeguards these ecosystems from destructive fishing methods, contributing to the preservation of marine life and the fight against climate change.

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Above: A researcher on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise observing a glass sponge collected during a dive in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Below: Greenpeace activists preparing to throw an underwater boulder into the ocean.

Together, we stand for global forest protection

Between 2015 to 2020, an area of forest the size of a football field was destroyed every two seconds around the world. Indigenous peoples ’ homes were destroyed, habitats were decimated, and the fight against climate change was weakened. Greenpeace has been fighting hard for forest protection and with your support this past year we made some amazing wins!

EU adopts new law to fight global deforestation

The EU accounts for around 16% of global trade in deforestation-linked goods. Greenpeace, more than 160 environmental groups, and millions of Europeans have been working together since 2020 to push Europe into drafting a strong Anti-Deforestation Bill.

Finally, in September 2022, they did, adopting all of Greenpeace ’s key demands. This new law bans the import of meat, soy, palm oil, timber, rubber and other goods derived from illegal logging, burning of forests and other destructive practices into the EU market. This should go a long way to help protect the world’s forests and Greenpeace will be watching to make sure it is working!

Surveying the Amazon Forest, a race against time

In June 2022, a team of Greenpeace specialists returned to the Manicoré River Basin in the southern reaches of the Amazon to conduct a one-month river expedition. The data they gathered are being used to push for better protection of the forests and to establish a nature reserve.

In January 2022, Greenpeace joined forces with the Muonio community of northern Sweden to call for ancient forests to be protected.

Pictured above is a Marca’s marmoset found in a forest near the Manicoré River.

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Scientists estimate that once 20-25% of the Amazon basin is deforested, the entire ecosystem will lose its ability to recover; we are in a race against time with 17% of the forests already destroyed.

Greenpeace & communities join forces to get forest permits in Indonesia revoked

Greenpeace has long been dedicated to safeguarding Indonesian rainforests. We organised firefighting teams and published research reports exposing deforestation.

Our efforts resulted in the revocation of plantation permits for two palm oil companies in Papua Province. Building upon this success, in May 2022, the Administrative Court further recognised indigenous people’s land rights in Papua. Research

has shown that protecting indigenous land rights is one of the best ways to protect forests. Greenpeace will continue supporting indigenous communities to use legal means to push for the cancellation of forest development permits, which will prevent further forest destruction.

Greenpeace helped set up a rainforest firefighting team in Indonesia and provided frontline training to safeguard local rainforests.

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Reuse, return and break free from plastic!

It’s been seven years since we launched our plastic-free campaign! Last year, we helped launch cup rental schemes in Hong Kong and made a first push to get disposable tableware banned. Now we’re one step closer to reaching zero plastic lifestyles!

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2022-2023 TARGETS:

Get governments and businesses to commit to halving disposable plastics by 2025 and to come up with concrete plans and provide resources to develop reusable systems, easing plastic pollution at source.

A game-changer! Getting a Global Plastic Treaty

Thanks to you and millions like you, in March 2022, the world made history when the UN unanimously agreed to draw up a Global Plastic Treaty. The first meeting was held in Uruguay in December 2022 with everything expected to be signed and sealed in 2024. Greenpeace will be there every step of the way to ensure the treaty will be legally binding, focused on stopping plastic production at source and promoting zero waste rather than relying on recycling.

PepsiCo sets a time-bound goal: That’s what I like!

A massive part of plastic pollution is disposable plastics. After we got Coca-Cola to commit to 25% reusable containers by 2030, PepsiCo promised to use 20% reusable packaging by 2030. But we will keep pushing them to do better we’re aiming for at least 50% reusable packaging by 2030.

Audits in Japan & Korea show size of plastics crisis

We believe that quantifying the issue is essential for us to know the severity of the plastic pollution problem. In August 2022, our Seoul office invited more than 3,500 people to record how much plastic they throw away at home using an app. About 75% of that was food and drinks packaging, an important data point when lobbying brands. Our Tokyo office calculated that Japan’s nine biggest coffee chains dump nearly 370 million disposable coffee cups each year, that’s about one million

a day, and used this to push for more reusable cup schemes.

Taiwan turns the tide on plastic waste

In August, our Taipei office released a shocking study showing that microplastics have been found in the faeces of six protected species, including the iconic Formosan black bear and Kinmen Eurasian otter, as well as in water samples from their habitats. We used this to get national parks to stop providing disposable cutlery. Following Greenpeace’s campaign, FamilyMart and 7-11, the two biggest convenience store chains in Taiwan, announced an expansion of their rental cup systems. We’ve also secured a groundbreaking policy change: customers who bring their own cup will receive a discount of at least NT$5 at most of Taiwan’s beverage shops, and at least 5% of these stores must ensure a reusable cup scheme is available by 2023.

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Greenpeace collaborated with 14 academic research and sampling teams to complete Taiwan’s first-ever microplastics pollution survey focused on locally protected wildlife.

Innovative experiments

Two-pronged plastic

Rent-a-cup demonstrates how to share resources

Hong Kong throws away 400 million disposable coffee cups every year. In response, Greenpeace and a local start-up launched #ch00ze, an app that makes it easy to borrow and return reusable coffee cups, in July 2022.

Since then, we have been pushing the Borrow-and Return Cup Programme in Hong Kong. More than 35 cafes have joined, demonstrating the feasibility of scaling up schemes like these.

Reusable cup schemes are still quite new in Hong Kong, so we invited singer-songwriter Endy Chow to act as our ambassador. He helped spread the word while we launched a HK$5 discount scheme to get people renting!

We also held a design competition for a reusable cup to promote a Hong Kong free from plastic. We invited local influencers and artists to judge the entries.

The reuse model in East Asia

Taipei: Family Mart and 7-11 introduced cup rental services to almost 1,000 stores

Tokyo: Local governments invested funds into schemes encouraging companies to introduce reusable cup systems through apps like LINE

Seoul: Starbucks in Korea has introduced a reusable cup system at its branches in Seoul and Jeju Island, with the goal of completely phasing out disposable plastic cups in all of its nationwide stores by 2025

More than 4,000 cups have been rented using our Programme, with a 99% return rate by May 2023! We think that’s pretty impressive!

Our community outreach team is still going out recruiting cafes to join the scheme and we are continuing to make improvements.

Map of participating cafes (please scan the QR code):

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Traditional initiatives

reduction in East Asia

Scrap disposable cutlery, cut plastic pollution at source

Hong Kong throws away 225 tonnes of plastic cutlery every day. That’s equivalent to 15 double-decker buses, adding to overflowing landfills and polluting the environment. Thanks to you and the other 5,300 people who supported our call for a plastic-free Hong Kong, the first stage of Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics has been brought forward two years to 2023!

By May 2023, the bill had passed two readings and is now at the implementation discussion stage. The bill proposes controlling plastic tableware for dine-in use, phasing out styrofoam tableware and banning oxo-degradable plastics.

However, the bill doesn’t mention replacing disposable with reusable, which is concerning. So in addition to promoting cup rental schemes, we proposed two major revisions to the bill: the establishment of a fund to support feasible reuse models in businesses and piloting schemes with the industry. The government also needs to set out a specific timetable and targets for this to succeed. Greenpeace is also looking at waste reduction policies like the government’s proposed municipal solid waste charging.

On the other hand, it was very disappointing when Hong Kong’s only drinks carton recycler Mil Mill’s lease was not renewed and with Liber Research Community and stakeholders, we held a forum at the end of the year to find a way forward.

In June we held our Simple Life Festival, partnering with loop store to organise a zero-waste shopping experience. Ultimately, it’s essential for the public to realize that even small steps can make a big difference. We aspire to foster an eco-friendly mindset for all.

Policy changes in East Asia

Taipei: From July 2022, all stores in Taiwan must offer a NT$5 discount for customers who bring their own cup for takeaway drinks; and in December 2022, Taipei will ban disposable plastic cups, saving about 76 million cups a year

Also, from August 2023, Taiwan will ban the use of tableware made from polylactide (PLA), a plant-based bioplastic. This is good news as PLA is not the answer to plastic pollution

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Looking for answers: Protecting local biodiversity

Lantau Tomorrow Vision will be Hong Kong’s biggest ever land reclamation project. Thanks to your support, we’ve been able to start an honest public debate so that nature is not sacrificed in silence.

2022-2023 TARGETS:

Cooperate with experts from various fields to present evidence on the project’s risks and to argue for brownfield site development as a practical solution to Hong Kong’s housing problem while protecting the city’s biodiversity.

Lantau: The making of a documentary

Our Lantau campaign revolves around a love for the island’s natural beauty. We have inspired countless people to join our call to protect this corner of Hong Kong with activities as diverse as holding a photography competition at the end of 2021, publishing an e-book to introduce Lantau’s breathtaking

landscapes, to the making of ecodocumentary Lantau: The Hidden Treasure of Hong Kong, which screened in May 2022.

Six months in the making, 20 rare species

This 25-minute film is the culmination of over half a year’s work by Greenpeace and a team of local award-winning ecophotographers. Writer-director Fung Hon Shing explored Lantau’s most beautiful secrets, even those that emerge only after night falls, capturing footage of 20 rare species, including the Chinese white dolphin, Eurasian eagle owl and the Hong Kong newt.

In Lantau, “the ocean and the mountains are home to thousands of species, and they are also a space for us to catch our breath in the middle of chaos.” This film presents an unique opportunity

for everyone to get an inside look of the island’s beautiful nature.

We also invited local media personality Stephen Chan to be the film’s narrator. The result is not just a documentary, it ’s a testament to the beauty of nature in a way that is captivating and inspiring audiences worldwide.

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Unyielding voices: A call for rational decision-making

What the experts say…

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“The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report predicts that sea level rise will continue for thousands of years because of the climate crisis. The current proposal to rely on a coastal 20-30 metre ‘buffer zone’ to deal with this risk is likely to lead to an endless construction crisis, and threaten the security of island dwellers.”

Lam Chiu Ying, Former Director of the Hong Kong Observatory

“The latest data shows that the number of public and private housing units in Hong Kong is greater than the number of households, which means improper planning and unequal distribution is causing the housing problem. The New Territories, which accounts for 80% of Hong Kong land, is still under-utilised; brownfield planning is the answer for building a sustainable city.”

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Ng Mee Kam, Director of the Urban Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

“There’s no question, the 20-year reclamation process will cause irreversible damage to Lantau’s environment, including to endangered corals. The estimated cost of building the artificial island at Kau Yi Chau is inaccurate; at the very least it will cost nearly HK$900 billion.”

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Jason Poon, Chief Researcher at Hong Kong Strategy Solutions

“Hong Kong’s public finances are already in a structural deficit. Once the massive reclamation project is launched, even if bonds are issued to fund the project, fiscal reserves will start to record a deficit by 2028/29 at the earliest, threatening to undermine Hong Kong’s status as an international financial centre.”

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Andy Kwan, Director of ACE Centre for Business and Economic Research

“A Greenpeace commissioned-survey by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute found that only 6% of respondents supported the implementation of the Northern Metropolis and Lantau Tomorrow Vision at the same time. Looking it together with previous surveys, public opposition to the reclamation plan is very clear.”

Francis Lee, Professor at School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK

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What the data and the facts say…

In October 2022, we released a report that showed brownfield sites could be a quick fix for Hong Kong’s housing problem. Using satellite images and site inspections we found 433 hectares of usable land in the Northern Metropolis area that could be turned into spade-ready sites within four to six years for about 108,000 housing units.

In December 2022, we released another report that exposed how the uncontrolled expansion of brownfields in the Northern Metropolis area threatens ecologically-sensitive sites, such as coastal and wetland conservation zones and buffer areas. We also found at least 35 illegal brownfields sites that demonstrate poor government enforcement.

In February 2023, we published an extensive report on the problems troubling reclamation mega-projects worldwide. It found that 77% of projects covering more than 1,000 hectares failed, such as Korea’s Songdo City and Dubai’s World Islands. We urge Hong Kong to learn from their mistakes.

Speaking out...

In February 2023, we joined 10 other green groups in calling the government’s closed-door consultation as “the sneakiest in history”. There was no timely and open announcement and no credibility. We urged the government to be open and honest, listen to people and withdraw this destructive and costly project.

During the three-month consultation period, Greenpeace joined 17 groups and civil society experts to hold five press conferences and publish four reports, which was covered in over 300 media reports. Our Experts Speak Out video series got 147,000 views. As a result of substantial public pressure, the Development Bureau has responded on multiple occasions.

We encouraged more than 3,300 people to give their opinions during the public consultation; almost 187,000 signed our petition to advocate for saving Lantau and asking the government to accord priority in development given the existing substantial quantity of undeveloped and underdeveloped land.

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Empowering change: You are Greenpeace

With your unwavering support, we have kept planting the seeds of change. We cheer each other on, knowing that together we can steadily move forward towards a brighter, greener and safer future.

2022-2023 TARGETS:

Strengthen community partnerships and foster environmental awareness through diverse public engagement and environmental education initiatives.

40 columns

Our website showcases three columnists who write eloquently about a diverse range of topics including local ecology and climate change. Polar scientist Wilson Cheung has held online sharing sessions for two consecutive years, attracting and engaging with supporters in Hong Kong and beyond.

3 offline events

As pandemic restrictions eased, public participation in offline activities resumed. We held events like the two-day Plastic-free Simple Life Festival that promoted zero waste and the Plasticfree Harbour initiative that encouraged reusable alternatives to single-use items. We also held an exclusive member event “Conversations with Robert: Hong Kong’s Wild Treasures”.

25,000+ downloads

Greenpeace published various online eco-friendly living guides encouraging sustainable practices. These guides feature suggestions for local hiking routes, fascinating facts about rare marine species, and valuable tips on reusing and recycling.

8 featured videos

We produced eight videos that explore environmental stories of people from different walks of life: a domestic helper who volunteers for beach clean ups on her days off, a restaurant owner who welcomes customers that bring their own food containers, and an app founder who worked with Greenpeace to develop a reusable cup system, among others.

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Entrants to our Plastic-free Harbour: Reusable Cup Creative Design Competition in Hong Kong hold their winning designs at the award presentation ceremony.

Why do people support Greenpeace? Here are some good reasons why

All sorts of people support Greenpeace. Retirees and teenagers, people passionate about local causes, and others who are more focused on global issues all count among the ranks of our members. We thank all of you for loving our planet so much that you joined Greenpeace. And in East Asia there are over 220,000 of you! We’d like to share with you some of the thoughts of five of our supporters and hope that their ideas inspire you as much as they inspired us.

Cherishing what’s on our doorstep

Kamal Mirwani is a Hongkonger who joined Greenpeace in 2018. Through his love of hiking, he became concerned about the threats to country parks and Lantau Island from proposed development. He is worried that the massive land reclamation planned for Lantau will end up like failed mega projects around the world.

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Kamal said he strongly supports Greenpeace initiatives such as pushing for less disposable plastic utensils and launching a reusable cup scheme. “Practical solutions are key to getting the public on board,” he says. He also wants people to explore their surroundings. “Take a 30-minute walk to discover the natural beauty of Hong Kong,” he urges.

Protecting nature for our children

Pat and her family came to our Greenpeace member event to meet wildlife photographer Robert Ferguson. Her son loves the natural world and the family often takes walks in the countryside. They were so happy to meet Robert and talk about Hong Kong’s animals.

Pat has been a Greenpeace member for 12 years. She is a strong supporter of our global campaigns including Saving the Arctic and projects to push our world towards a plastic-free and fossil fuel-free future. “I feel very grateful for the impacts Greenpeace is having,” she says. “As a parent, I don’t want my children to only see these amazing animals in books. I want them to witness their beauty firsthand.”

Greenpeace supporter Kamal Mirwani

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Greenpeace supporter Pat

Three decades saving the oceans

As a child, Professor Shao loved the beach and he has dedicated his life to studying Taiwan’s coastal areas. “Data spanning the past 40 years has shown a continuous deterioration of the marine environment,” he says. “I’ve been advocating for marine conservation for 30 years.”

“It’s our generation’s responsibility to preserve the oceans handed down to us by the previous generation and pass them on untouched to the next generation.”

Keeping a 15-year promise

When Hyanghee and Hakjun from Korea first started dating 15 years ago, they promised each other they would donate their wedding gifts to Greenpeace. This year they tied the knot and became Greenpeace supporters.

“Our actions ripple beyond ourselves, much like the interconnectedness of nature,” the two say. “If our small act of kindness can inspire others to continue spreading goodwill, it’s a win for everyone.”

A legacy for the Earth

After witnessing the devastating floods that hit Seoul in 2022, Ms. Park decided to leave a donation in her will to Greenpeace.

“We only have one Earth,” she says. “As temporary residents, we will be passing this legacy on to our children in the future. The thought of the next generation inheriting a damaged Earth from us fills me with deep remorse. That’s why I’m committed to supporting Greenpeace.”

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Marine ecology researcher & Greenpeace supporter Prof. Shao

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Greenpeace supporters Hyanghee & Hakjun

Greenpeace legacy giver Ms. Park

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Look how far we’ve come

Every year, when I sit down to compose a message to you, I’m always really inspired to report back on how much we’ve achieved together to make our planet a safer place over the past year.

2022 is my 15th anniversary at Greenpeace East Asia (I’m here for the long run!), so I wanted to see how much progress we had made over those 15 years instead. When I pulled out our 2008 Annual Report off my shelf, I felt a rush of pride when I saw the front cover with its bold and forwardthinking climate message. Even 15 years ago, we were there, right on top of the big issues, calling for action at the highest level with policymakers and global delegates. Greenpeace was at the UN climate meet in Poland in 2008, paving the way for the countdown to Copenhagen, a key climate summit the following year.

Over the years, I’ve seen how flexible and responsive Greenpeace is as an organisation, reacting to the key environmental issues of the time. Our priority Climate and Energy campaign has expanded into emerging industries and areas, including tracking urban air pollution to encourage cleaner energy, pushing for a shift to electric vehicles, making big tech commit to carbon neutrality, and improving climate readiness of, and justice for, local communities.

In this annual report, you’ve read about how we were behind Samsung’s announcement that it will achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and how we partnered

with labour unions in Korea’s car industry to show that there is majority support in the sector among workers for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles by 2035.

Just look how far we’ve come!

And that goes for all our campaigns. Back in 2008, we were getting ready to launch our Detox My Fashion campaign, kickstarting a process where many international clothing companies committed to clean production so that they would stop polluting river water with hazardous chemicals. Over the years, we got over 80 big brands to detox their supply chain including Zara, Nike and the maker of GORE-TEX®.

In recent years, we’ve built on that success by shifting focus to disposable plastics in the food and beverage industry and microplastics in the food chain affecting our families’ health. In fact, this region — Hong Kong and East Asia — has been an absolute pioneer for our global plastics work. With your support, our plastics campaign is now an unstoppable force! In Taipei, a ban on single-use plastics by bubble tea vendors came online in December 2022. Years of creative, people-powered and indefatigable campaigning in Hong Kong has led to a government roadmap to ban all single-use plastics by 2025.

Of course, none of this is achievable without you. We’re a family here at Greenpeace and just like our campaign wins, our

family has been growing over those 15 years. Back in 2008 we had 2,415 members; at the end of last year that number was more than 224,000!

We are truly honoured to have your trust. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading all our stories in this annual report and, like me, you feel immensely proud to be part of this organisation.

Because just look how far we’ve come! I’m excited to see how much farther we will go together in the next 15 years!

Greenpeace’s principles

We are committed to our principles governing how we use our resources and donations for environmental protection work.

$0 from governments, companies

To maintain our absolute independence, Greenpeace never accepts funds from governments, businesses or political organisations. This ensures we are free to always put the planet first.

Environmentalists without borders

Today’s environmental issues have transcended national borders. As a global environmental organisation, Greenpeace is present in more than 55 countries and regions, with 27 national or regional offices. We work on environmental protection, the climate crisis, biodiversity and we push governments, businesses and individuals to work together and seek solutions to environmental issues. Funds raised locally are primarily used to support local environmental projects. When there is spare capacity to support campaigns overseas, Greenpeace International will allocate resources according to their priority and the urgency of the issue. Our Hong Kong office also supports Greenpeace’s major global environmental campaigns, such as protecting the Amazon, saving the Arctic and defending our global oceans. As a Greenpeacer, that means YOU are having a global impact as well as benefitting Hong Kong.

Employ multiple strategies

Greenpeace is committed to bringing positive change through practical and peaceful actions. We follow the IDEAL framework (Investigate, Document, Expose, Act and Lobby) and harness people power to drive our environmental campaigns. We use diverse and innovative actions and strategies to push for change.

Public transparency

Greenpeace is accountable to our supporters, the public and regulatory bodies. We arrange for internal audits of offices around the world and make the work of our campaigns transparent by releasing information through public events and online. In addition, our Annual Reports include independently audited records of our financial management so that you can see how we are using your kind donation to really make an impact for our planet.

Greenpeace East Asia Financial Report

* includes donation income from the Hong Kong office: $67,079,545

Total expenditure in 2022

HK$336,024,413

PS1: Greenpeace East Asia financial statement for the year ending 31 December 2022 was audited by certified public accountants PKF Hong Kong Limited.

PS2: Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.

PS3: Insignificant expenditure items comprising less than 0.01% of the total expenditure will not be itemised separately. These expenses amounted to a total of HKD3,504 in 2022.

Total income in 2022* HK$336,325,307

9.3%

New Donor Contributions

$31,419,717

3.7%

Foundations & Trusts, Major Gifts $12,340,150

17%

Grants from Greenpeace International $57,018,975

Environmental Projects & Campaign Support

Climate & Energy

$65,699,756 (19.6%)

Contributions to Greenpeace International for Global Activities

$34,133,256 (10.2%)

Oceans

$11,790,562 (3.5%)

Toxics / Detox

$4,404,968 (1.3%)

Forests

$3,218,195 (1%)

Cross Campaign Issues

$25,546,926 (7.6%)

Campaign Communications & Media

$28,794,067 (8.6%)

Public Information & Outreach

$5,679,155 (1.7%)

Action, Volunteer Outreach & Community Management

$4,424,530 (1.3%)

Policy, Business & Science

$15,301,467 (4.6%)

Organisation Support & Governance

Senior Management & Governance

$4,902,688 (1.5%)

Legal Advisory

$2,629,077 (0.8%)

Human Resources

$20,122,220 (6%)

Administration

$7,037,298 (2.1%)

Financial Control

$14,011,911 (4.2%)

IT Support

$6,234,810 (1.9%)

Fundraising & Donor Engagement

Supporter Information & Mobilisation

$11,141,419 (3.3%)

Supporter Care & Development

$5,450,421 (1.6%)

Supporter Database, Licences & Management

$7,405,917 (2.2%)

New Supporter Outreach

$49,438,424 (14.7%)

Fundraising Staff & Coordination

$8,653,842 (2.6%)

In 2022, this is how we divided up every HK$300 on our environmental campaigns and supporting works:

$99 Saving our Climate

Addressing the climate emergency and helping relieve extreme weather events.

$23

Protecting our oceans and forests

Both are not only important carbon sinks but sanctuaries for life.

$7

Eliminating toxic pollution

Together we can build a plasticfree and toxic-free world.

$89 Global activities and others

Collaboration across offices to maximise our campaign efforts.

$52 Environmental campaign message promotion and mobilisation

Making our voices loud and clear calling for awareness and action.

$20

Action and volunteer engagement

People Power to bring positive changes.

$7 Research and investigations

Keeping abreast of the latest technologies to uncover the truth for our environment.

$3

Promoting green policies

Liaising with stakeholders from governments to corporations.

Distribution of Resources: Environmental Projects & Campaign Support

Climate and Energy

Projects Highlights

In addition to initiating innovative campaigns, Greenpeace East Asia actively participates in global initiatives, playing a pivotal role in securing significant victories for our planet. Our environmental efforts are backed by dedicated teams specialising in various areas, including environmental publications, media engagement, direct actions, scientific research, lobbying and mobilising public support. We uphold a commitment to openness and transparency, welcoming scrutiny from our members, the public and regulatory bodies.

Our Seoul team employed multiple strategies to raise awareness about the climate emergency and campaign for renewable energy.

Promoting energy solutions: ● Improving national climate policy — ahead of the 2022 presidential election, we worked with civic groups and community partners to put pressure on presidential candidates for more aggressive climate commitments. We mobilised citizens to submit opinions to presidential candidates, including a collection of over 14,000 letters from students. All major candidates replied before the election, promising they would take climate action. ● Demanding climate actions at state level — we assessed candidates’ climate policies in collaboration with top tier broadcaster KBS; following our advocacy work, Yoon Suk-yeol, who was later elected, promised to ban new internal combustion vehicles by 2035 in his campaign. ● Holding the new government accountable — we monitored and commented on state climate and energy policies, providing expert opinions to mainstream media and on our own channel to spread public awareness. ● Reforming the East Asian electronics sector to help bring about a renewable energy revolution and ensure a toxic-free future — following our campaign exposing Samsung Electronics’ lack of climate commitment, in September 2022, the company announced it would aim to go carbon neutral and 100% renewable globally by 2050.

HK$

10,501,654

Climate Sustainability / Seoul office

No-nukes campaign: ● Ensuring a nuclear power phase-out in Korea while advancing the renewable energy transition — we raised public awareness by highlighting the irreversible and long-term risks brought by nuclear power. ● Held an international webinar to share Greenpeace radiation investigation results at Chornobyl, with Greenpeace Germany’s investigation team and Ukrainian scientists. 24 mainstream media covered the story, including a seven-minute long video feature by KBS. ● Worked with experts to highlight the issue of Fukushima water release in public discussions, covering accident scenarios in nuclear facilities. Our work attracted massive media attention, including by 13 top outlets.

● Released data and contributed expert opinions to highlight how nuclear energy is blocking the development of renewable energy and threatening the national economy.

● Followed up on information provided by a whistleblower and exposed how Korea’s oldest operating reactor, Wolsong Unit 1, was releasing radioactive effluent. Amid huge public pressure, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission agreed to conduct an investigation.

Promoting climate education and biodiversity: ● Raising awareness on local biodiversity and climate issues and encouraging people to get involved in nature conservation. ● After the launch of a Greenpeace online teacher training programme in partnership with Teacherville, a top Korean education company, within six months over 2,600 local teachers got involved. The platform will boost climate education through networking and training, and we also set up a climate action teachers’ group to unleash the creativity of teachers and students in combatting climate change. ● Made climate change resources readily available for use in lessons and activities. Resources also give wider information and guidance towards climate actions as well as information on training sessions for educators. ● Produced a series of science-based engaging content on the climate crisis for the general public, covering food safety, climate impacts on health and disease and biodiversity risks. ● Organised a community run in September 2022 in collaboration with Runday, a famous Korean running app, attracting over 3,100 online supporters, and helping to spread awareness about threats to biodiversity. We also launched an online animal quiz and other engaging multimedia content showing the importance of biodiversity, and attracting mainstream media coverage.

4,765,773

2,313,661

Our Taipei climate team focussed on advocating for low-carbon business models for local corporations and governments, as well as raising public awareness.

Urban climate advocacy work: ● Goal was to push for accelerating renewable energy use in Taiwan and improving climate policy to support this. ● Advocated for a carbon-pricing system through legislation to encourage rapid growth in renewable energy use. ● Worked with business owners from all different industries, driving a trend for corporations to commit to renewable energy development to support the official 2050 net-zero goal. Over 80 local small- and medium-sized enterprises signed up to Greenpeace’s RE10×10 Climate Declaration, committing to at least 10% renewable energy by 2025. ● Invited representatives from the World Economic Forum and the European Union to introduce the latest developments in the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in a forum with hundreds of business leaders in Taiwan.

● This campaign successfully urged the Legislative Yuan to revise the Climate Act and commit to introduce a carbon pricing system in Taiwan. ● Fostered the development of a city climate policy by gathering opinions from over 2,000 citizens ahead of the 2022 local elections. We submitted a policy recommendation paper to call for climate commitments, which was later adopted by 14 mayoral election candidates. The newly-elected Taipei mayor agreed to set a 50% carbon reduction target by 2050 for Taipei.

Promoting climate education: ● Goal is to educate, empower and engage the younger generation on climate change actions. ● Continued to run the Green Future Academy, an online learning platform, offering modules and teaching materials around climate urgency. We successfully engaged over 1,000 teachers and more than 1.4 million young people in Taiwan. ● Established a partnership with the Ministry of Education to host our events and to act as a consultant. ● Held monthly online climate talks and over 40 offline campus talks, attracting educators, students and the general public. ● Produced multimedia content on key climate issues, including an animation series that attracted more than 1 million views!

Pushing the local government to advance the city’s climate actions by renewing its carbon reduction target to align with its net-zero pledge by 2050: ● Asked for the public disclosure of their carbon emissions to allow public monitoring. Released a report to evaluate over 60 government departments’ carbon reduction measures in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and ambition. ● Raised public awareness by highlighting how climate change is taking the largest toll on vulnerable people. Collaborated with civil society to carry out a survey to understand the impacts of extreme weather on frontline workers in Hong Kong. Surveyed 150 outdoor sanitation and pest control workers between August and September 2022, among them more than half reported suffering from heat-related illnesses as temperatures climbed above 35 degrees Celsius. Proposed real changes to legislation to provide tougher heat guidelines.

Greenpeace East Asia kickstarted a new regional project in the summer of 2021, aimed at accelerating carbon neutrality commitments in the Asian automobile industry, phasing out fossil fuel vehicles by 2030, decarbonising supply chains and promoting circular economic approaches: ● Visualised a new car business model for a zero-carbon society. In Korea, we conducted a survey to understand the perceptions of primary stakeholders — local automobile workers. We partnered with local labour unions and found 64% of workers supported a ban on the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2030. ● Identified and highlighted climate risks from the car industry through the release of an analysis in August 2022 with data from Moody’s ESG Solution. It drew the attention of investors and media on the urgency of car companies to take climate action. ● Advocated for renewable energy measures by publishing Auto Environmental Guide 2023, the second consecutive report to assess the top 10 automakers in the world about their decarbonisation efforts. Toyota, ranked at the bottom, was pressured to replace their CEO; their replacement then promised to invest more in electrification. ● Created high publicity news-making investigative outputs to trigger debates in society. Released two reports to push Chinese automakers to stop selling fossil fuel vehicles and decarbonise their supply chains. The reports were widely covered by influential English and Chinese media outlets including Reuters, Bloomberg, SCMP, Caixin, etc., and sparked dialogues between our team and the top auto companies in China.

14,917,016

208,834

498,545

7,553,361

Urban Climate & Energy Solutions / Hong Kong office

Car Decarbonisation

Greening

● Promoting provincial low-carbon transformations by providing practical policy suggestions to authorities. The local officials of Zhejiang province, one of the more economically developed and pioneer provinces on low-carbon development, adopted most of our recommendations. ● Calling for an end to China’s overseas coal investment. Continued monitoring China’s overseas coal investment after its “no coal” pledge and encouragement of renewable energy investments. Updated our coal investment database and published an op-ed in one of the leading newspapers that attracted more than 10,000 views and reactions from key opinion leaders in the field. ● Proposed policy suggestions in overcoming current challenges in overseas renewable energy investment faced by many Chinese state-owned enterprises. ● Aiming to make renewables the main source of energy in China by shifting mindsets. Held online seminars to discuss low-carbon solutions, published data-driven content to share the financial risks of fossil fuels, and argued a rapid growth in renewables will eventually support national energy security. Our work was covered in over 500 international articles on mainstream media, such as Bloomberg and Reuters. ● Encouraging Chinese enterprises’ transition to a low-carbon model by providing market insights into international environmental laws. We also published research reports and hosted high-level seminars to support direct dialogues among corporate investors and other key industry stakeholders.

● Promoting Chinese financial institutions to set climate goals to help accelerate the country’s low-carbon transformation. Used publicly available information to evaluate the performance on climate of 15 leading asset managers in China, promoting sustainable investment and discussions in the field. ● Urging Chinese tech giants, such as Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, to step up their carbon reduction goals. Released reports, including Clean Cloud 2022: Tracking Renewable Energy Use in China’s Tech Industry, to track carbon goals of leading cloud providers in China and deepen discussion about green power procurement mechanisms. ● Enabled knowledge, experience and resource exchange about climate actions in the industry by organising a variety of workshops and seminars in which C-level staff, data centre leaders, end users, managers and key decision makers participated. ● Established networks and made direct conversations with major players in the market including Alibaba, the biggest Chinese tech company, making sure real actions can be in place. ● Another focus was on Chinese e-commerce platforms that we called for their urgent actions in reducing their carbon footprints. Released reports and op-eds on top-tier media to put pressure on the industry under China’s 2060 climate pledge. ● Successfully engaged with some of the leading companies in East Asia including Samsung Electronics and Luxshare Precision, which provided room for Greenpeace to influence their climate actions.

5,819,955

Radiation Protection

● Called on governments to reject all forms of nuclear power generation and to lead the world towards a sustainable, renewable energy-driven future. ● Prepared media briefings to explain the unique hazards presented by the Chornobyl nuclear power plant after the Russia-Ukraine War broke out. ● Supported a week-long independent investigation near the ruins of the nuclear power plant in July 2022 with the approval of the authorities in Ukraine. It included a limited radiation survey inside the highly contaminated 30 km exclusion zone. ● At a global press conference, released the results of the findings that showed local radiation levels were at least three times higher than the estimation by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

● Provided remote support with satellite imagery to create an online story map inside the exclusion zone, documenting the environmental impacts of the war on the environment.

5,792,619

Climate Sustainability / Tokyo office

5,319,783

5,297,677

China’s Investment / Beijing team

Corporate Campaign for Climate / Beijing team

Projects Highlights HK$

Coal, Water & Air Pollution

● Providing solid data on global air quality to urge governments to take more ambitious climate actions. ● Continued to lead the Global Air Pollution Team and to work with 20 Greenpeace offices across the globe to track trends in air quality and fossil fuel use. We analysed people’s access to air quality monitoring stations and exposure to air pollution in seven countries, finding over 99% of the people surveyed were breathing polluted air.

● Conducted a global engagement campaign to invite people to send in a blue sky photo. We received 1,500 images from 64 countries and regions.

2,087,870

Regional Climate Response

Monitored climate phenomena in East Asia and worldwide, such as heatwaves, drought and wildfires; established connections with media, opinion leaders, experts and other organisations to encourage public discussion.

Oceans

Projects Highlights

Protect the Oceans

● Spearheading an international campaign to ensure a strong global treaty at the United Nations with the eventual goal of protecting at least 30% of oceans by 2030 (30×30). Under pressure from millions of supporters around the world, governments finally secured a Global Ocean Treaty in March 2023. ● As of March 2023, over five million people had signed Greenpeace’s petition (including over 380,000 in East Asia, of which over 35,000 were from Hong Kong). ● Scientists on board Greenpeace ships sailed to the Atlantic to expose and document illegal and destructive marine operations, and conducted studies to investigate the impacts of the climate crisis on penguin populations in the Antarctic, collecting robust evidence of the need for action. ● Delegated teams consisting of political advisors, scientists, legal experts, key influencers, community leaders, etc. to represent people’s voices in global conferences and meetings, including those at the UN. Lobbied and persuaded decision makers at the highest levels of national and international institutions.

● In East Asia, pushed local governments to support 30×30 and raised public awareness in the region. The Seoul team organised an exhibition and staged a magnificent light show using 300 drones to send a powerful message to tens of thousands of people. The Beijing team released a sustainable ocean observation guide, highlighting ocean protection and successfully engaging over 56,000 people.

Our teams focussed on protecting marine ecosystems and pushing East Asia’s fishing industry to adopt better sustainable practices.

Taipei team

Sustainable fishing

Pushing for a reform on distant-water fishing operations and calling for better marine environmental protection in Taiwan: ● Submitted a policy recommendation paper to the local government to propose better sustainable fishing measures and human rights protections in the fishing industry. ● Following our campaigning work, the local government announced an action plan to better regulate distant water fisheries and to protect migrant workers on Taiwan’s distant water fleet. ● Worked with Greenpeace USA to investigate major US seafood brand Bumble Bee and its Taiwanese owner, tuna trader FCF. Released an investigative report to expose how the two companies are suspected to have illegal fishing practices and human rights abuses occurring in its supply chain. ● Gathered over 150,000 signatures in support of the proposed Ocean Conservation Law in Taiwan. The bill was moved into the next legislation stage.

Beijing team

Calling for tighter control over domestic and distant water fisheries. Submitted a letter to the government to inform them about an update in foreign legislation related to China’s distant water sector together with our recommendations on fisheries management. Provided policy recommendations on properly regulating domestic fishing by supporting public opinion solicitation in the revision and legislation of several laws.

623,008

65,699,756

10,372,438

1,237,530

180,594

11,790,562

Projects Highlights HK$

Our Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo teams worked together to really push our Break Free from Plastic campaign to the public, media, governments, manufacturers and retailers.

Hong Kong team

● Urging the authorities to explore reusable systems to reduce plastic and waste pollution. We carried out a community-oriented and solutions-based campaign to demonstrate a feasible reusable business model in Hong Kong. ● Collaborating with an IT start-up and 35 cafes to launch a reusable cup rental scheme — more than 4,000 cups have been rented using our scheme, with a 99% return rate by May 2023. We will be inviting more restaurants, and even big coffee chains, to join and expand the scale. ● Conducted a survey that revealed Hong Kong dumped 400 million paper and plastic cups a year into landfills during the COVID-19 pandemic — over half of those surveyed expressed willingness to borrow reusable utensils for takeaway food. ● Gathered the voices of over 5,300 people in support of Greenpeace’s call for a plastic-free Hong Kong, the first stage of Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics has been brought forward two years to 2023. ● Organised a two-day offline event in June to promote plastic-free lifestyles. A series of workshops were held during the period, enjoyed by more than 2,000 citizens, including adults and young kids.

Taipei team

● Calling for the government and major retailers in Taiwan to adopt plastic-free and reuse business models to cut single-use plastic pollution. ● As a result of our mindset-shifting advocacy efforts to reduce plastic pollution in Taiwan, the authorities released a new regulation that all beverage chain stores will be required to offer discounts to customers who bring their own cups and to provide a reusable cup rental system in at least 5% of their outlets. Taipei’s city government banned single-use plastic cups from December 2022.

Break Free from Plastic

● Published a report, in collaboration with a local university’s research group, to reveal that Taiwan’s retailers generated more than 3.6 billion pieces of single-use plastic packaging each year, pushing for urgent action from retailers and the government. ● Conducted the first-of-its-kind field investigation in Taiwan on how microplastics were detected in the faeces of several protected species, including Formosan black bears and Formosan sambar deers. Our report on this discovery drew massive media coverage and public attention, which helped build up momentum for a call for action. ● Released the third ranking report evaluating supermarkets’ efforts in reducing plastic waste. Following our advocacy work and direct actions, Taiwan’s largest supermarket chain PX Mart committed to set up new measures promoting plastic-free shopping.

Seoul team

● Highlighting corporate responsibility as the key to solving the plastics crisis. ● Published a report revealing that single-use plastic packaging accounted for 78% of general waste every year, demanding changes from companies and governments. ● Contributed commentaries in mainstream media on plastic reduction trends and policies,helping the public make informed decisions. ● Raising public awareness by conducting a second largescale, household plastic waste survey in Korea, engaging over 3,500 volunteers. Journalists from MBC, a Korean broadcasting company, participated in the survey and broadcast story during prime time, helping us to spread awareness on plastic reduction and reuse.

Tokyo team

● Launching a petition to push the Japanese government to advance plastic reduction policies in conjunction with the timing of the Basel Convention Conference. ● Calling for corporate change by releasing a report on disposable cup consumption by big coffee chains in Japan. It exposed that Starbucks was the worst offender, with a low rate of reusability, putting pressure on the big coffee chain to make changes. ● Organised an offline event in the Nishi Ogikubo area to encourage reuse in collaboration with local shops to provide plastic-free shopping options to the public.

4,404,968

4,404,968

Forests

Projects Highlights HK$

● Mobilising people across the globe to sign petitions to exert pressure on governments.

● Carried out a river expedition in June 2022 on the Manicoré River to support the work of researchers from the National Institute for Research in the Amazon and partner institutions in their studies of the rich biodiversity in this little-studied area. The findings will be used to build a robust and compelling evidence base and aid local communities in protecting their rights to use the forest sustainably. ● Produced multimedia stories on the main causes of deforestation, how it is linked with international trade and how individuals can be part of the solution by raising our voices and changing our habits. ● Carried out direct actions in Seoul, London and Washington DC to call for global attention in response to the murders of a British journalist and a Brazilian advocate for Indigenous Peoples during an Amazon expedition. ● Following years of campaigning, the European Union approved an historical law that would ban the import of products linked to deforestation. Household goods such as coffee and chocolate will have to pass strict checks to ensure forests weren’t damaged in their production. ● The Beijing team continued to encourage public support for restoring China’s natural forests. We held a creative short video competition and a public workshop around the theme of forest conservation, engaging over 20,000 people.

Cross Campaign Projects

Projects Highlights

Campaigning against the Hong Kong government’s large-scale reclamation project Lantau Tomorrow Vision on the grounds it will bring irreversible damage to local marine ecology.

● Our team gathered more than 186,000 signatures supporting the protection of Lantau and urging the government to prioritise the development of brownfield sites as a more economically effective and sustainable way to alleviate the housing problem. ● Launched six research reports to indicate risks of the reclamation project, including one that revealed 433 hectares of large and readily accessible brownfield plots were excluded from official development plans. ● Provided alternative development plans to address local housing woes based on satellite images, site inspections and extensive research. ● Partnered with 11 green groups to urge authorities to withdraw the proposed amendments to land-use regulations. Worked with local experts and scholars to highlight the financial, environmental and climate impacts of this damaging project.

Launching an awareness-raising campaign on climate urgency in local communities.

● Focussed on responding to climate extremes, entrenching climate emergency into social-economic issues and collaborating with diverse communities. ● Hosted an online media webinar, two offline media workshops, three podcast episodes that attracted more than 80,000 downloads, and a forum at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, inspiring silo-breaking discussions on urban climate actions.

● Released a manual on the China Pavilion for COP27 to promote public climate action in local communities and organised offline workshops in Beijing in collaboration with Environmental Story Network. Developed creative public engagement strategies on the climate emergency, including the launch of a city walk to introduce citizens to climate-friendly design and a series of creative videos on extreme weather-themed participatory theatre.

3,218,195

3,218,195

HK$

2,723,938

22,822,988

25,546,926

City Development / Hong Kong office

Climate Community Stakeholder Engagement / Beijing office

Global Forest Work & Biodiversity

Contributions to Greenpeace International for Global Activities

Projects Highlights

Supporting Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s environmental protection projects in 2022, with a focus on advancing national climate policies, promoting biodiversity and community engagement in offices in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.

Bangkok team: ● Urging the government to advance climate actions by highlighting health and economic impacts of air pollution from fossil fuels. In July 2022, Thailand finally announced it would adopt PM2.5 safety standards on a par with developed nations. ● Greenpeace lobbying helped secure five key policymakers and elected officials, as well as one political party, to openly support our climate policy recommendations. ● Worked with other environmental groups in installing solar rooftop panels for seven public hospitals and six colleges in Thailand.

HK$

Save the Climate Campaign

Jakarta team: ● Increasing the visibility of the climate crisis and driving the green transition at a state level. Following our campaigning, President Joko Widodo agreed publicly that the green economy is key to Indonesia’s future. ● Released six reports investigating why destructive operations still happen in Indonesia, such as palm oil firms clearing Papuan forest and unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry.

Manila team: ● Seeking climate solutions that promote equity and safety for everyone.

● Following our 2015 petition for an investigation into the human rights implications of climate change, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines found there were legal grounds to hold climate-destroying corporations accountable.

Kuala Lumpur team: ● Advocating for a clean energy transition for public health and the national economy. Released two reports to reveal health and economic impacts caused by air pollution.

● Launched a petition to ask the Malaysian government to enact the Transboundary Haze Act, with 14 parliamentary members showing support to table the Act in parliament.

27,643,554

International Research & Campaigns

Addressing climate change requires international political action and global campaigning efforts. It supported coordination of resources needed for global campaigns, including Greenpeace International’s Amazon and Climate & Justice campaigns.

Campaign Communications, Media and Outreach

Projects Highlights

● Maintained a communications project staff of 27 in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo. The teams are responsible for external communications with media for organisational messaging on 23 environmental projects. ● Enhanced the influential power of our campaigns through communications: responded to media and public enquiries, maintained positive relationships with media and opinion leaders, and held press conferences on our research. ● Advocated positive changes through different means of communication: produced videos with opinion leaders on environmental issues, shared expert opinions on media platforms, participated in seminars and published promotional materials.

6,489,702

34,133,256

HK$

12,074,821

Branding & Networking

Collaborated with local communities in carrying out environmental campaigns to amplify our voice and promote change.

● Used innovative ways to improve project communications, multimedia work and social media management to enhance our influence for the environment. Mobilised people online to support regional and global campaigns on protecting oceans, forests and the climate. ● Conducted market research to better understand people’s ideas about environmental issues.

1,743,880

6,283,749

Environmental Analytics

In-depth analysis of environment-related news coverage and social media posts, interpreting trends in public opinion, analysing and improving our campaign messaging, used new methods of data collection and analysis to improve our digital communications.

2,094,010

Projects

● Graphics, photos and video production to support project communications, as well as maintenance of our multimedia library and development of new digital campaigning tools.

● Produced regular communications materials through channels such as print, websites, email, SMS, social media and instant messaging applications to keep the general public updated with the latest environmental issues. ● Created environmental science materials to enhance awareness of the climate emergency and the importance of climate action.

Action, Volunteer Outreach & Community Engagement

Projects Highlights

Regional Actions & Outreach Coordination

Training & Equipment

● Coordinated action planning, execution, logistics, and legal assessment. ● Supported educational and promotional events to engage with the public, such as organising volunteer activities.

● Provided infrastructure support for non-violent direct actions (NVDA) to support environmental campaigns. ● Responsible for the purchase, maintenance and development of tools, equipment and safety gear.

Government Relations, Business and Science

Monitored urgent environmental disasters and mobilised staff to bear witness and understand root causes. Developed innovative research and investigation techniques, such as the use of aerial footage satellite positioning and tracking and ship tracking; monitored environmental accidents and extreme weather events and evaluated whether to mobilise an emergency response.

Conducted regular training — scouting, sampling, online research and workshops held regionally to facilitate knowledge sharing and risk management.

● Focussed on building scientific competence in key priority offices to apply advanced cognitive science (neuroscience, psychology, linguistics) to create social change through tackling root causes and changing mindsets. ● In response to the post-COVID situation, the team of five focussed on investigating changes in societies, and adopted the findings in the training framework and practical guidance on mindset campaigning for global offices.

● Advised on liaising with governments and the UN on environmental campaigns. Maintained relationships with key political contacts in government, research institutions and NGOs.

● Developed strategies and provided professional advice to change corporate behaviour by engaging with financial communities and attending business forums as speakers.

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