Schemes worth hundreds of millions of dollars in emissions credits at risk from burning
A forest fire raging on the edge of the Katingan Mentaya Project in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. The project aims to protect the forest and peatland to prevent emissions and verify them to sell carbon credits. (Katingan Mentaya Project)
AMY CHEW
October 19, 2026 13:34 JST
KUALA LUMPUR -- Indonesia's wildfires are not only burning swaths of jungle, plantation and farmland. They are also threatening the country's four recently launched projects that issue carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars by preventing greenhouse gas emissions from 225,000 hectares of forest.