Indonesia is the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, largely due to deforestation. A new study has quantified how much carbon dioxide is released from deforestation in Indonesia.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, used satellite imagery and mapping to calculate the carbon dioxide released from deforestation in Indonesia between 2000 and 2012. The study found that Indonesia released 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from deforestation in that time period.
That’s equivalent to about a third …