Many solutions to Southeast Asia’s haze problem proposed, but no end in sight

To boycott, or not to boycott? That seems to be the question many are asking as Southeast Asia’s haze problem, caused by fires set to clear Indonesian forests and peatland for agriculture, is once again blanketing Singapore in thick clouds of smog. A CIFOR study found that forest fires in Riau province emitted 1.5 – 2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions in just one week in 2012 — about one-tenth of Indonesia’s total annual emissions.