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Palm oil plantations = tropical rainforest destruction, right? Step forward Project POTICO

Posted by Nick Dommett on February 14, 2009
Countries, Indonesia, Mitigation / 1 Comment

The connections between climate change, deforestation and the growth of palm oil plantations are pretty clear. What to do is another thing. While it is easy enough to demand that the Indonesian government stop creating palm oil plantations this is an unrealistic objective. Caught between a rapidly increasing fiscal account deficit and its stated development [...]

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