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View all search resultsProtecting trees is key to meeting climate goals but environmentalists blame Indonesia -- home to the world's third-largest rainforest area -- for a deforestation free-for-all by allowing companies to clear land for new plantations.
The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.
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 President has issued a bold statement that the environment and development are not mutually exclusive, but whether the government can fall in line with the global commitments he makes at COP 26 is another issue.
Officials in the world's fourth most populous country said that they have a less absolute interpretation of a clause in an agreement signed on Monday at the COP26 climate talks calling for a "halt and reversal" of forest loss.
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