Norway: Indonesia's forest moratorium isn't enough to meet emissions reduction target

Mongabay: Indonesia's moratorium on new forest concessions will not be enough to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target says the largest backer of the country's forest and climate action plan. Norwegian environment minister Bard Vegar Solhjell told Reuters on Tuesday that Indonesia's two-year moratorium on logging and plantation concessions in peatlands and primary forests "is not sufficient to reach the climate mitigation pledged, or to stop deforestation in the speed that is necessary." Solhjell's...

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