Indonesia’s climate plan: Any hope through the haze?

Yani Saloh, Jakarta | Opinion | Mon, November 23 2015, 4:36 PM

A week before the critical Paris climate talks, Indonesia became the world’s top greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter due to the huge recent forest and peatland fires in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua. Before the fires, Indonesia was already the world’s fifth-largest GHG emitter.

The Paris talks are the last chance for countries to agree on how to tackle GHG emissions beyond 2020. The goal is to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. Most countries have already submitted their plans for 2020 onward, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC).
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