"The people who will be affected by this are the most vulnerable people groups. It won't be the people who are making billions out of this,"
Dr Lee Jo Kien (LinkedIn, IG, FB) is the Lead Analyst of Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre (TRCRC) and People for Peat (PFP), a component of the Sustainable Use of Peatland and Haze Mitigation in ASEAN (SUPA) programme. Dr Lee graduated from Monash University Malaysia with a Doctor of Philosophy in Science, BSc. Biotechnology (Hons), and BSc. Biotechnology. His doctoral thesis focused on the Sources of Carbon Dioxide on the Forest Floor of Mt. Kinabalu.
We discussed the outsized importance of peatlands as a carbon sink and the difficulty in saving them. We talked about the nature of his work as an ecologist and the nature of funding in his field.
To learn more about the work TRCRC is doing with People for Peat, follow their socials: LinkedIn, FB, IG
For further reading, research materials, topics referenced here as well as book recommendations are listed on the show notes on our website.
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