Demand for palm oil has also been a major source of land clearing here. The spread of palm oil plantations into forests and highly sensitive peatlands on Sumatra and Borneo islands have helped make Indonesia the world’s third-highest greenhouse gas emitter. But Indonesia appears intent on running up that debt. Already at least 10 million of its 22.5 million hectares of peatland have been cleared, according to the Centre for International Forestry Research, and the clearing shows no sign of slowing.
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