Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with vast deforestation for sugarcane

Published on December 30, 2024

A plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations, which commenced recently, would nearly double the country's total greenhouse gas emissions and impact Indigenous communities in Papua, a new report warns.

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