Mongabay: One third of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation originate from areas not officially defined as "forest" suggesting that efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) may fail unless they account for carbon across the country’s entire landscape, warns a new report published by the World Agroforestry Centre (CGIAR). The policy brief finds that up to 600 million tons of Indonesia’s carbon emissions "occur outside institutionally defined …

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