For Unfiltered, @ncoca dives into how polluting palm oil power plants harms local communities, and the powerful movement that has, so far, successfully prevented two projects from being built. Harvesting palm oil also means #deforestation and land‑use change in #SoutheastAsia especially plantations on peatlands—which leads to high greenhouse‑gas emissions.

Read in more detail about the short and long term effects this will have on #Japan and its neighboring countries.

https://www.unfiltered.coop/japans-palm-oil-power-push-is-faltering/