JakartaWood pellets bound for Japan are clearing fresh forest.
Indigenous communities lose land where new wood-pellet concessions are cheapest to grant.
Global rules count biomass burning as zero-emission at the smokestack, booking the deforestation instead against Indonesia’s own ledger.
The carbon debt from each cleared hectare outlasts every climate deadline it’s meant to meet.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org leans critical
- exposes deforestation hidden in biomass exports to Japan—weak supply chain oversight and subsidies fueling Indonesian forest destruction
Sources: Phys.org