JAKARTA: Indonesia, the world’s top producer of palm oil, said that its development agenda must take precedence over the need to combat deforestation, tempering expectations around the nation’s climate change commitments.
“The massive development of President Jokowi’s era must not stop in the name of carbon emissions, or in the name of deforestation,” Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar posted on her Twitter account, referring to the South-East Asian nation’s head of state Joko Widodo.
Indonesia, one of the 100 countries that signed the initiative, is instead committed to controlling emissions from forestry and land use to achieve carbon neutrality.
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