Indonesian President demands leadership from the US: how about some...
As President Yudhoyono was first greeting and then demanding leadership from visiting US secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on climate change, the old saying ‘those in glass houses shouldn’t...
View ArticleMake Way for OPOEC – the Palm Oil cartel.
Last week the Indonesian government announced the creation of new palm oil plantations on peat lands, causing dismay in the environmental sector. As reported in my blog last week, suggested reasons...
View ArticlePeat land palm oil plantations and the decision to join the World Bank’s...
Indonesia has formally applied to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a sort-of precursor of the REDD scheme. Launched at the Bali negotiations in December 2007 its objectives are: To...
View ArticleWOC – important implications for Copenhagen
There has been a huge amount of coverage of conferences so far this year, the G20 foremost among them. There was another conference that took place last week that was important to anyone interested in...
View ArticleInternational Success, Domestic Failure: the Dichotomy of Indonesian Climate...
International Success… On the international stage, Indonesia can claim with some justification that it is leading the way in advancing the climate change agenda. In the last month alone, Indonesia has...
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