Study on economic loss from Indonesia’s peat policies criticized

Mongabay
Jan 8, 2018, 9:16 am103 pts
JAKARTA — Experts and officials have taken issue with a new study that warns of hefty economic losses as a result of the Indonesian government’s policies to protect peatlands from being cleared by the palm oil and pulp industries. The study by the University of Indonesia’s Institute for Economic and…

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