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View all search resultsAmid the catastrophic impacts of the coronavirus, good news is coming from Indonesian forests. The government’s efforts to reduce deforestation and forest fires have paid off. Indonesia has secured a grant of US$103.8 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for avoiding 20.3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from 2014 to 2016. The country has also received a $56 million grant from Norway for reducing deforestation and carbon emissions.
Indonesia's forest fires are once again in the spotlight after a report from the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service found that this year’s forest fires in Indonesia have released more carbon emissions than the forest fires that are raging in the Brazilian Amazon.
The map, which has a scale of 1:2,000,000, the first of its kind, consists of around 472,981 ha of forest lands that have been verified by the ministry and are in proper condition to be turned into customary forests.
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