According to its latest available data, Indonesia recorded 104,000 hectares (256,990 acres) of deforested area from July 2021 to June 2022, down from 113,500 hectares in the year prior to that, according to government figures, which did not include numbers for the current year. 

With the scarcity of resources available at their disposal, it becomes even more critical for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to embrace circularity in ensuring their survival.

Heavy reliance on a limited range of feedstocks, such as the overreliance on palm oil, hampers energy independence and fails to tap into the potential of diversified locally available resources.

The green economy approach has led to new environmental problems, primarily due to policies that lack a strong scientific basis in biodiversity, strong political and vested interests, corruption and a lack of public transparency.      

Environmentalists have warned that the 2024 election could well determine the fate of the country’s forests, citing previous spikes in deforestation after regime change alongside the fragility of the government’s environmental pledges and achievements.

Those most affected by climate-induced droughts risk being trapped due to a lack of resources and networks to migrate.

The dry season has once again exacerbated Jakarta's chronic pollution issue, with the capital routinely topping the list of the world’s most polluted major cities in recent weeks.

European Union Ambassador to Indonesia Vincent Piket insisted that Europe “wishes to maintain the palm oil trade” and was keen to help Indonesia and Malaysia acclimate to the new regulation. 

The fate of the reef has been a recurrent source of tension between UNESCO and Australian authorities, with the UN agency's World Heritage Committee threatening to put the world's largest coral system on a list of "in danger" global heritage sites.

They have restored to health 11.5 hectares (roughly 30 acres) of corals around a group of 120 islands known as the Spermonde archipelago in the Makassar Strait off Sulawesi. 

Transport systems and companies are now being inclusive and socially geared to meeting society's access and development needs while minimizing the impact on human and environmental health.

Siti Nurbaya said that the plastic products targeted by the ban includes Styrofoam for food packaging, plastic straw, plastic cutlery and shopping bags.

Environmentalists question the government's justification in allowing sea sand export after a 20-year ban.

Sand dredging is notoriously harmful. A number of islets in Thousand Islands regency off Jakarta and in Riau Islands in Sumatra have reportedly been washed away due to the practice.

In his retirement from public office, Sarwono had a particular interest in environmental issues, and he was highly respected by the current environment and forestry minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, to whom he offered his invaluable advice.

In the last two decades, China has been the most important partner for Indonesia, particularly in economic development, investment and trade.       

The government lifted a ban this month on the export of dredged sand that was in place for more than 20 years, in a move it claims will bring in badly needed revenue but that activists say will further degrade the country’s vital marine ecosystems.

Microplastics were found in human blood and lungs last year, with the vast majority of participants in a study testing positive for plastic.            

One in six women of reproductive age now have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood.       

In nations from Somalia to Pakistan, the world's poorest and most fragile communities are facing the harshest impacts of climate change - a reality that is driving worsening poverty, potential for conflict and resentment against major polluters.

South Africa will auction at least 10 new onshore blocks for shale gas exploration in the environmentally sensitive Karoo region, a government official told Reuters, as the country eyes alternative energy sources to ease its worst-ever power crisis.

The next deadly virus that spreads around the world could easily come from a bat that roosts in or around the caves being explored by Thiago Bernardi Vieira.

Relief organizations were awaiting clearance from Myanmar's military rulers on Wednesday to access areas of Rakhine State devastated by a deadly cyclone three days ago, and deliver food and medicine to communities in urgent need.

It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned.

Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused Spain's weather agency of engineering a drought, Australia's of doctoring its thermometers and France's of exaggerating global warming through misplaced weather stations.

As global hunger swiftly rises - by more than a third last year - curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming's heavy reliance on fossil fuels, food waste and meat eating, experts said.

Farmer Ganpatram Bheda, 66, fears he will lose his two acres of land in northwest India after scarce rainfall and extreme cold in recent years hit crop yields, trapping him in a web of loans with little help from the state to overcome his financial woes.

In Indonesia and around the world, indigenous peoples and local communities (IP and LC) are on the front lines of the fight to save our planet.

In the community’s view, the government’s decision to bring in private companies to the Komodo National Park is just another strategy to relocate them outside the park.

Foreign buyers can purchase carbon credits in Indonesia carbon markets, but they must transact and be registered in Indonesia.