FILE PHOTO: Smoke covers forest during fires in Kapuas regency near Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has received an injection of cash from the United Nation's Green Climate Fund to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle forest fires at a time when the country has had to scale back spending in the area due to coronavirus budget pressures.
The $103.8 million fund was granted under the REDD+ programme, a U.N.-backed forestry conservation scheme to tackle climate change, based on progress Indonesia made in 2014-2016, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said.
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