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Indonesia: A hot issue at climate summit
2015-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDev.Net: Shares As 190 nations prepare for the global climate summit in Paris this December, forest fires in Indonesia continue to rage since July 2015. Emissions from this year's fires have reached 1.62 billion metric tons of CO2, bumping Indonesia up from sixth largest to fourth largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter in the world, surpassing Russia in a matter of six weeks and the entire US economy in just 38 days. [1] Global Forest Watch Fires detected at least 127,000 fires across Indonesia this year,...
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