Indonesia's proposed peat law too weak to protect peatlands, stop haze, says Greenpeace
Date:
14-Mar-2014
Category:
Indonesia
Source/Author:
Mongabay.com
Description:
A new regulation aiming to protect peatlands is likely to fall short of its goals, failing to stop peat degradation, emissions, and fires that are driving the current haze crisis in Southeast Asia, asserts a new analysis from Greenpeace.
Forest destruction in Riau Province, Indonesia on 06/23/2013. Greenpeace is calling on concession holders to urgently extinguish fires on their land, immediately stop the drainage and development on peat and natural forests and ensure palm oil in their supply chains is free from forest destruction. Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0314-peat-regulation-greenpeace.html#4jFu8I5EW7x6HIJE.99
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