Indonesia Digging Up Too Much Coal: Greenpeace Indonesia’s
ambitious plans to boost coal production and exports from
Kalimantan are ill-advised and not worth the environmental and
social cost, according to a key report from Greenpeace. In the
“Point of No Return” report released last week, the
environmental group said the Indonesian government was one of a
handful of governments helping “push the world past the point of
no return” by pursuing massive coal, oil and gas projects that
would produce as much new carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 as
the entire United States. “These new climate-changing mega-
projects are the direct result of the hypocrisy shown by a
handful of governments,” Kumi Naidoo, the executive director of
Greenpeace International, said in a press release on the
organization’s website. “These governments claim they want to
prevent catastrophic climate change, but shamefully continue to
approve and promote major fossil fuel projects that will lead to
climate chaos and devastation,” he added. In