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As world dithers on forest carbon rules, private investors go it alone
2014-06-07 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The villagers of Ulak Batu in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province may not be fully aware of how decisions made by business executives and governments far away affect their lives. But that is what has steered their shift from fisherfolk to plantation workers to budding forest guardians in recent years. According to Syarian, head of the village in Seruyan district, nearly 70 percent of local people decided to drop fishing seven years ago to work on an oil palm plantation. "They had to change...
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