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Isyana Artharini
Isyana Artharini is an editor and op-ed writer for the Yahoo! Indonesia editorial team. During the six years that she has worked as a journalist, she has covered urban development and transportation issues, gender, environment, and pop culture.
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Forests more profitable dead than alive
No commentsOne of Indonesia’s biggest challenges in climate change is being forced to redesign its economic model. Daju Pradnja Resosudarmo, a researcher on forestry governance from CIFOR says the problem is around 70% of Indonesia’s non-tax revenue comes from natural resources. Therefore keeping forests dead is still the more profitable than keeping forests them alive. The problem is that many of the decisions in Indonesia rest at regional and provincial level, where the national government has less power and reach.
»Can Indonesian cities drive emissions down without tackling transport?
No commentsIndonesia has ambitious plans to green dozens of its cities to help fight climate change. But these plans won’t affect the transport sector for more than a decade and experts warn this could create more environmental problems.
»Developing countries are rising stars of emissions reductions
No commentsDeveloping nations are playing a growing role in global reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and Brazil now ranks ahead of all developed and developing nations, thanks its efforts to reduce deforestation.
»Climate conference opens with calls for immediate action
Comments offThe UN climate change conference in Denmark opened with calls for effective solutions and immediate actions to address global warming, but big differences remain between the demands of developed and developing nations.
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