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Indonesia's carbon reduction goals a tall order, expert claims

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the lofty targets during the G-20 meeting in the US city of Pittsburgh in late September, pledging to cut carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020, and up to 41 percent if international assistance was offered. Daniel Murdiyarso, a climate change scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) in Bogor, said the government targets could play a significant role in pushing for land use reform and the protection of forests to be included in climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen in December.
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