Home to the world's third-largest tropical forests and also its biggest palm-oil producer, Indonesia introduced a three-year freeze on plantation permits that expires in September.
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A long-awaited report by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that it is a "statement of fact" that humanity is having a damaging effect on the climate, and it is "unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land".
Earth is becoming so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a "code red for humanity."