As fires threaten Indonesian forests, actions like agroforestry promotion are needed (commentary)

With an area covering 125.76 million hectares, Indonesia’s forests, which are home to 17% of the global wildlife population, constitute the world’s third largest rainforest ecosystem and hold the key…

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Carbon credits for forest preservation projects are mostly ‘illusory’, UC Berkeley study says

So-called "avoided deforestation" projects do not deliver high-quality carbon credits and should not be used to claim climate neutrality, according to research from the University of California Berkeley’s Carbon Trading…

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