Unheeded Warnings: Forest Biomass Threats to Tropical Forests in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Author: Earth Insight and others

Date: 2024

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Language: English

Type of resource: Report

Topics: Global South

Indonesia is home to some of the Earth's most biodiverse and carbon-rich forests, and 50 to 70 million Indigenous people who rely on these intact ecosystems for their survival. Yet burning wood in biomass power or "co-fired" in coal power plants could bring Indonesia’s forests to an "irreversible point" by 2040. Carbon reduction policies that divert public dollars from solar and wind into biomass energy threaten forests and biodiversity across Southeast Asia.