129

5082
Justice

Indonesian Palm Oil, Deforestation, Biofuels and Carbon Offsets – Podcast

Also on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon and Others

Today we speak with Hans Nicholas Jong. Hans is a journalist in Indonesia and a staff writer at Mongabay, where he has been writing for six years about environmental issues surrounding palm oil, indigenous land rights, carbon trading, deforestation, energy transition and much more. Previously, he was a journalist at the Jakarta Post for five years.

We spoke about a wide range of issues from palm oil and its impacts on deforestation in Indonesia, the impact of palm oil plantation on indigenous peoples and local communities, corruption, land rights, biofuels, carbon offsets and reforestation.

LinkedIn: Hans Nicholas Jong
X (formerly Twitter): @hans_nich
Articles by Hans on Mongabay

Climate Impacts Tracker Asia

Related articles

ADB Loan Adds to Indonesia’s Coal Problem, New Investigation Finds 

Pacific Cyclone Season: Could a Loss and Damage Fund Help?

Will COP29 Bring the Climate Action the World Needs?

Deforestation in Malaysia and the Fading Lives of Its Indigenous Peoples

Related articles

ICJ’s Ruling a Victory for Climate Litigation and Justice: ‘Provides Us With a Reason to Keep Fighting’

The International Court of Justice's historic advisory opinion declared that actions driving climate change are...

Environmental Justice Examples, Issues and Types

Climate change is a global issue, yet developed countries have contributed the most to it....

Study Directly Links Fossil Fuel Companies to More than 200 Heatwaves

A new study directly links the pollution from 180 major fossil fuel and cement companies...

Japan’s Fossil Fuel Financing Has Long Term Repercussions For Local Communities

Pacific Cyclone Season: Could a Loss and Damage Fund Help?

San Miguel Corporation LNG Projects Could Destroy the Philippines’ ‘Amazon of the Oceans’

Climate Change in Pakistan: Rising Temperatures and Melting Glaciers

Trending

The Indian Election, Public Policy and Climate Impacts – Podcast

Attributions speaks with ISB Professor Anjal Prakash about the Indian elections in the context of...

Nature’s Carbon Capture Potential – Podcast

The Attributions podcast speaks with Oswald Schmitz, Professor of Population and Community Ecology at Yale...

Malaysia’s Indigenous Batek and Deforestation from Palm Oil – Podcast

James Whitlow Delano speaks about his decades covering the impact of deforestation from palm oil...

The Indian Election, Public Policy and Climate Impacts – Podcast

Nature’s Carbon Capture Potential – Podcast

Malaysia’s Indigenous Batek and Deforestation from Palm Oil – Podcast

The Cost of Climate Change on Coral Reefs – Podcast