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- Tue 06:32Indonesia carbon boom - Indonesia’s carbon trading economic value could reach around IDR 5 trillion ($277.7 mln), according to Antara News. Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni noted that the figure depends on transparent, accountable governance and prioritising public interest. The ministry has approved four initial projects, three under Forest Utilisation Business Permits and one social forestry scheme, with potential to avoid 30 MtCO2e. Antoni added that three projects covering 225,000 ha could generate IDR 500 bln in non‑tax state revenue.
- Tue 04:17A coalition of more than 70 environmental, Indigenous rights, and human rights organisations has urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to abandon plans to lift its 23-year-old moratorium on allocating new industrial logging concessions, warning that the move would jeopardise climate commitments, undermine recent forest governance reforms, and expose vast areas of the Congo Basin to unsustainable exploitation.
