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The Supreme Court has ordered a palm oil company to pay Rp 920 billion (US$60.9 million) for failing to prevent or extinguish forest fires within its concession area in West Kalimantan, adding to a growing list of firms held responsible for environmental disasters in the country.
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.
Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar told delegates that countries would have to act together to tackle global warming or risk the planet ending up in “uncharted territory where no future will be sustainable”.
Indonesia has introduced a global declaration that calls on parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury to tackle illegal trade of mercury, with the hope that such a move would spur stronger international cooperation in the future.
The government has said that it is mulling whether to implement a plastic credit scheme in a move to address mounting concerns about plastic waste in the country, although an expert has expressed concerns that such a scheme could allow producers to shift their responsibilities to others.
