Wildfires Threaten Carbon Credit Schemes in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan

Wildfires are raging on the edge of the Katingan Mentaya Project in Central Kalimantan province of Indonesia. The project is designed to protect forest and peatland to prevent emissions and verify them for carbon credit sales. These fires are threatening four recently launched projects that issue carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars by preventing greenhouse gas emissions from 225,000 hectares of forest.

The fires put the carbon credit schemes at risk, as the projects rely on preventing emissions from large tracts of forest. This situation creates regulatory uncertainty and risk for the national carbon credit market in Indonesia.

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