Carbon credit project half the size of Singapore wins court reprieve


Peat swamp forests in Indonesia store large amounts of carbon and protecting them is critical to fighting climate change. - Lianhe Zaobao/The Straits Times

SINGAPORE: One of the companies behind the world’s biggest carbon credit project won a key court battle in Indonesia as it attempts to resume activity at the vast site in Borneo.

The Jakarta State Administrative Court backed a request from Rimba Raya Conservation to overturn a decision last year by Indonesia’s government to revoke the firm’s licence to operate across 36,000ha of tropical peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan.

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