Burning Peat Or Burning Coal, Emissions Are Rising On The Road To Paris

Monday, 9 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Indonesia burning

The  worst environmental disaster of the twenty first century? Emissions greater than the whole US economy? Dr Daniel Murdiyarso from CIFOR, Centre for International Forestry Research talks about Indonesian peat fires.
PLUS Tim Buckley from the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA) on investor shock, stranded coal assets and how we can be a  superpower.

 

Further Reading:

Read up on the complex intersection of business and politics to what may amount as one of the greatest crimes against humanity and nature.
https://theconversation.com/playing-with-fire-the-economics-and-network-of-fire-and-haze-47284
"As rains finally clear the skies over south-east Asia, dramatic Greenpeace photos show people and wildlife coping with the haze in one of the worst hit areas of Central Kalimantan on Borneo island."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/nov/02/indonesias-forest-fires-living-under-a-yellow-haze-in-pictures
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? by George Monbiot
http://gu.com/p/4dmbb/stw

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