Greenpeace has run successful campaigns in the Philippines, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and Thailand, often working with other local environmental groups.

[3] As a regional organization, Greenpeace Southeast Asia focuses on bearing witness to the impacts brought by global warming, and increasing public awareness of the problems it poses.

In 2016, over a hundred Nobel Prize winners signed an open letter calling on Greenpeace to end its campaign against genetically modified organisms in general and golden rice in particular; a spokeswoman for the organisation rejected the accusation of obstructing golden rice and called it a "failed solution" and "something that doesn't exist at all", in turn accusing corporations of seeking to pave the way for more profitable GM crops.

[4] On 17 April 2024, the Court of Appeals in the Philippines issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of two genetically modified crops, golden rice and Bt eggplant, citing a lack of "full scientific certainty" regarding their health and environmental impact.

The decision was in response to a petition filed by groups including Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad Agrikultura (Masipag) and Greenpeace Southeast Asia.