Yet another Labor failure: "Australia has effectively killed the last of its vaunted on-the-ground projects in Indonesia to restore and protect forests and peatland for the carbon dioxide they store. In a small note on the AusAid website, the Commonwealth government has confirmed a $47 million project to restore 25,000 hectares of peatland on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan will end before most of its major milestones are met. The Kalimantan project was first launched with great fanfare in 2007 by then foreign minister Alexander Downer and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. It then became the centrepiece of a $100 million Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership launched by President Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008.." Read more: theage.au/opinion/political-news/australianindonesian-carbon-project-abandoned-20130702-2p98w.html#ixzz2XrfL6kVT
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:57:55 +0000