Logging moratorium in Indonesia`s forests made permanent
(WorldNews Norway)

Indonesia`s tropical rainforest is the third largest in the world, after the Amazon and the Congo Basin forest. Indonesia`s annual emissions of greenhouse gases are estimated to 1.8 billion tons of CO2 when emissions from deforestation and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands are accounted for. This places Indonesia amongst the world`s top 10 emitting nations. Estimates show that Indonesia`s forest and peat fires during a six month period in 2015 may have caused emissions of...