Sentences with phrase «peat land fires»

On Friday, Jokowi announced radical steps to address the annual peat land fires.

With the backdrop of massive peat land fires sending carbon into the atmosphere and the fast - approaching U.N. climate talks, environmental advocates expect today's visit between Indonesian President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo and President Obama to touch on climate change and deforestation challenges.

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The company is a signatory of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests and has made a long - term commitment to only buy palm oil whose production doesn't lead to deforestation, fire or loss of peat land.

Activists hope Jokowi will go beyond a recent announcement to control peat fires and reform land use policies, although there is some skepticism that other topics will overtake the agenda.

«The announcement suggests that Jokowi himself is recognizing that a long - term solution to the fires can not be achieved without a fundamental change in land use, particularly related to peat lands,» she said.

When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).

«Indonesia is one of the major emitters in the world, and this year it's likely to be even more than usual,» because of the raging fires burning carbon - rich peat lands.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

These are the truly unnatural fires as tropical wet forests (and peat fires too) are not supposed to burn but do so because of unsustainable land - uses.

Fires also emit methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2), but peat fires may emit up to 10 times more methane than fires occurring on other types of Fires also emit methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2), but peat fires may emit up to 10 times more methane than fires occurring on other types of fires may emit up to 10 times more methane than fires occurring on other types of fires occurring on other types of land.

Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming may be more than 200 times greater than fires on other lands.

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In 2015, after months of forest fires and choking pollution levels, the Indonesian government identified dozens of companies responsible for millions of hectares of torched forest and peat land.