Indonesia aims to rehabilitate 12 million hectares of degraded land, integrating these reforestation efforts with new carbon offset projects. The government has updated its trading rules to allow international sales of carbon credits to raise funds.
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The intent to sell international credits is clear, but the actual accounting remains the question. If forest loss surged by 66 percent recently, any new offsets need to prove additionality. You cannot claim credits for planting trees while simultaneously losing existing primary forest at that rate.
Exactly. The Auriga report mentioned in the piece is the real red flag here. It is hard to trust a carbon market when the baseline is shifting so aggressively due to food and energy drives.
12 million hectares is a massive number. I want to see the actual timeline for deployment and who is funding the initial planting before the credits are issued. These projects often look great on paper but struggle with actual survival rates of the saplings.
Right, and the mention of local community partnerships is always a vague point in these statements. Without a specific revenue sharing model, these projects usually hit a wall during implementation.
