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Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Tuesday 22 Oct 24 11:15am

PHOTO: Borneo Tours

Indonesia’s strategy for increasing renewable energy production could see Indigenous communities lose huge swathes of their forests to biomass plantations.

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