Indonesia has been well-known in scientific circles as the third-highest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, after the United States and China. Most of those emissions come from land uses and land-use changes, particularly deforestation.
However, Indonesia is also one of the world leaders in acting quickly to try and reduce its emissions.
To help the Government of Indonesia identify sources of emissions and design ways of reducing them, the European Union funded the World Agroforestry Centre to implement a ground-breaking project called Accountability and Local Level Initiatives to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Indonesia (ALLREDDI).
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