JAKARTA (Reuters) – An agreement on deforestation by more than 100 countries this week that was signed by Indonesia, home to a third of the world’s rainforests, did not contain a pledge to halt deforestation by 2030, a senior Indonesian official said on Thursday.
“The declaration issued does not refer at all to the ‘end deforestation by 2030’,” vice foreign minister, Mahendra Siregar, said in a statement. Indonesia’s environment minister earlier said such an arrangement would “inappropriate and unfair”.
(Reporting by Fathin Ungku and Stanley Widianto; Editing by Martin Petty)
