The Burning Season (2008 film)

The Burning Season is a documentary about the burning of rainforests in Indonesia which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. The main characters featured in the film are Dorjee Sun from Australia Achmadi, a smallscale palm oil farmer from Jambi province in Indonesia and Lone Drscher Nielsen, a Danish conservationist based in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

A 30yearold Australian environmental entrepreneur, Dorjee Sun, sets out to find a solution. Using expertise gained during the dotcom boom, Dorjee forms a small carbontrading firm and signs up three pioneering Indonesian governors to partner in his venture. His idea involves selling the carbon credits represented by large forest areas in Aceh and Papua to big carbon emitters in the West. Despite the scepticism surrounding carbon trading, Dorjees quest for a big deal takes him from Sydney to New York, Washington DC, San Jose, San Francisco and London.Meanwhile, another burning season is underway. Achmadi, a smallscale Indonesian farmer, sets fire to his newly acquired piece of forest to clear it for palm oil. But he too has to face up to the impact of his burning on the global climate. And in Borneo, Danishborn Lone DrscherNielsen rescues and cares for orangutans injured or orphaned by the fires. As she prepares for the release of rehabilitated orangutans back into the wild, the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali commences. Everything hinges on whether all the countries of the world can agree on the wording of a new climate change protocol and whether protection of forests will be included. As the drama of this historic moment plays out, Dorjee relentlessly pursues his deal. Is he a pioneer or a profiteer? What value does his concept offer to the remaining forests of the world and to the challenges of climate change?. ........

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