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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - At an 8th World Forest Week (WFW2022) Special Event, held at the Headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome (Oct 4), Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Professor Siti Nurbaya laid out her country's plans to have carbon-positive forests by 2030 and also launched the publication titled “The State of Indonesia's Forests 2022".
In her keynote speech at the event, Minister Nurbaya emphasized the power of Indonesia's Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 initiative, backed by its Operational Plan, which is designed, among other things, to achieve carbon-positive forests in Indonesia by 2030.
She pointed out that nearly 60% of the reduction in GHG emissions emanates from the FOLU sector, according to both the updated and recently-submitted enhanced NDC targets.
The enhanced NDC marks a transition towards Indonesia’s Second NDC in alignment with the country’s Long-Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience (LTS-LCCR) 2050 which envisages reaching net-zero emissions (NZE) by 2060 or sooner.
Indonesia’s enhanced NDC will in fact ensure that the country stays en-route to achieving NZE earlier than 2060, keeping this aspiration on track towards 2050, as reported earlier by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 23).
“The enhanced NDC describes heightened actions and the necessary enabling environment that has laid the foundation for more ambitious goals, contributing to the concerted effort to prevent a 2°C increase in global average temperatures and to pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,” Minister Nurbaya stated.
Ongoing reinforcement
Minister Nurbaya also emphasized that the implementation of several policies and programs aimed at addressing the challenges faced by the FOLU sector and the impacts of climate change will continue to be reinforced.
First of all, according to the Minister, the reorientation of forest management from a wood-based system to a sustainable forest ecosystem and the adoption of community-based approaches will be continued.
Secondly, Minister Nurbaya underlined that the principle of environmental carrying capacity would be prioritized in forest utilization schemes by ensuring that this principle continues to be internalized into the National Forestry Plan, a macro-spatial plan for forestry development for the period 2011-2030.
She added that the prevention of biodiversity loss within and outside conservation areas, by stopping any further damage caused to conservation area landscapes as well as by enriching species, is also being reinforced.
Another undertaking in this regard involves strengthening and implementing national development policies by incorporating an economic and environmental balance, in this case by developing a greener economy to provide investment and job creation opportunities in support of national economic recovery.
The final effort to be reinforced, meanwhile, pertains to the carrying out of affirmative policies on community access to forest utilization, local and regional dispute resolution - including tenurial conflict resolution - as well as the upholding of local and adat community rights.
Significance of FOLU
Minister Nurbaya said that "Indonesia is of the view that FOLU plays a significant role in mitigating as well as adapting to climate change," adding that, “FOLU is the main sector for Indonesia in achieving the country's NDC targets.”
She stressed that after conducting a thorough analysis, Indonesia is confident about achieving a net carbon sink from the FOLU sector by 2030.
“This is how we are enhancing our ambitions through the incremental achievements we have obtained since our NDC was developed. This is also our strategy in achieving our NDC – by establishing our FOLU sector while simultaneously improving other significant sectors, energy, the wetland and ocean sectors, and blue carbon,” the Minister elaborated.
Accordingly, Minister Nurbaya cited the three working modalities Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 initiative uses as part of the country’s LTS-LCCR: (1) Sustainable Forest Management; (2) Environmental Governance; and (3) Carbon Governance.
Formulated strategies
In her keynote speech, Minister Nurbaya highlighted Indonesia's key climate actions intended to achieve FOLU Net Sink 2030.
The first priority detailed by the Minister is to reduce deforestation rates using a strategy that, among other things, encompasses controlling forest and land fires and engaging local communities in social forestry programs. Such efforts have already yielded positive results as evidenced by the sharp fall in deforestation during President Joko Widodo’s administration, reaching its lowest level in the past 20 years.
Second is the prioritization of climate actions in conservation and sustainable forest management. This involves, the Minister explained, reducing forest degradation driven by excessive logging and forest encroachment in production forests and expanding the extent of protected forest areas.
The third climate action mentioned by Minister Nurbaya concerns efforts to protect and restore peatlands and rehabilitate mangroves.
Last but not least, the Minister underscored the importance of sink enhancement by accelerating both the afforestation and reforestation of severely degraded lands outside and inside state forest areas, alongside efforts to bring about urban revegetation, successful ecosystem replication, and the ecological rehabilitation of riparian areas.
Minister Nurbaya concluded her keynote speech by conveying her hope that we all will collaborate in creating a story of success - as part of our global climate actions from the FOLU sector.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - At an 8th World Forest Week (WFW2022) Special Event, held at the Headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome (Oct 4), Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Professor Siti Nurbaya laid out her country's plans to have carbon-positive forests by 2030 and also launched the publication titled “The State of Indonesia's Forests 2022".
In her keynote speech at the event, Minister Nurbaya emphasized the power of Indonesia's Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 initiative, backed by its Operational Plan, which is designed, among other things, to achieve carbon-positive forests in Indonesia by 2030.
She pointed out that nearly 60% of the reduction in GHG emissions emanates from the FOLU sector, according to both the updated and recently-submitted enhanced NDC targets.
The enhanced NDC marks a transition towards Indonesia’s Second NDC in alignment with the country’s Long-Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience (LTS-LCCR) 2050 which envisages reaching net-zero emissions (NZE) by 2060 or sooner.
Indonesia’s enhanced NDC will in fact ensure that the country stays en-route to achieving NZE earlier than 2060, keeping this aspiration on track towards 2050, as reported earlier by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 23).
“The enhanced NDC describes heightened actions and the necessary enabling environment that has laid the foundation for more ambitious goals, contributing to the concerted effort to prevent a 2°C increase in global average temperatures and to pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,” Minister Nurbaya stated.
Ongoing reinforcement
Minister Nurbaya also emphasized that the implementation of several policies and programs aimed at addressing the challenges faced by the FOLU sector and the impacts of climate change will continue to be reinforced.
First of all, according to the Minister, the reorientation of forest management from a wood-based system to a sustainable forest ecosystem and the adoption of community-based approaches will be continued.
Secondly, Minister Nurbaya underlined that the principle of environmental carrying capacity would be prioritized in forest utilization schemes by ensuring that this principle continues to be internalized into the National Forestry Plan, a macro-spatial plan for forestry development for the period 2011-2030.
She added that the prevention of biodiversity loss within and outside conservation areas, by stopping any further damage caused to conservation area landscapes as well as by enriching species, is also being reinforced.
Another undertaking in this regard involves strengthening and implementing national development policies by incorporating an economic and environmental balance, in this case by developing a greener economy to provide investment and job creation opportunities in support of national economic recovery.
The final effort to be reinforced, meanwhile, pertains to the carrying out of affirmative policies on community access to forest utilization, local and regional dispute resolution - including tenurial conflict resolution - as well as the upholding of local and adat community rights.
Significance of FOLU
Minister Nurbaya said that "Indonesia is of the view that FOLU plays a significant role in mitigating as well as adapting to climate change," adding that, “FOLU is the main sector for Indonesia in achieving the country's NDC targets.”
She stressed that after conducting a thorough analysis, Indonesia is confident about achieving a net carbon sink from the FOLU sector by 2030.
“This is how we are enhancing our ambitions through the incremental achievements we have obtained since our NDC was developed. This is also our strategy in achieving our NDC – by establishing our FOLU sector while simultaneously improving other significant sectors, energy, the wetland and ocean sectors, and blue carbon,” the Minister elaborated.
Accordingly, Minister Nurbaya cited the three working modalities Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 initiative uses as part of the country’s LTS-LCCR: (1) Sustainable Forest Management; (2) Environmental Governance; and (3) Carbon Governance.
Formulated strategies
In her keynote speech, Minister Nurbaya highlighted Indonesia's key climate actions intended to achieve FOLU Net Sink 2030.
The first priority detailed by the Minister is to reduce deforestation rates using a strategy that, among other things, encompasses controlling forest and land fires and engaging local communities in social forestry programs. Such efforts have already yielded positive results as evidenced by the sharp fall in deforestation during President Joko Widodo’s administration, reaching its lowest level in the past 20 years.
Second is the prioritization of climate actions in conservation and sustainable forest management. This involves, the Minister explained, reducing forest degradation driven by excessive logging and forest encroachment in production forests and expanding the extent of protected forest areas.
The third climate action mentioned by Minister Nurbaya concerns efforts to protect and restore peatlands and rehabilitate mangroves.
Last but not least, the Minister underscored the importance of sink enhancement by accelerating both the afforestation and reforestation of severely degraded lands outside and inside state forest areas, alongside efforts to bring about urban revegetation, successful ecosystem replication, and the ecological rehabilitation of riparian areas.
Minister Nurbaya concluded her keynote speech by conveying her hope that we all will collaborate in creating a story of success - as part of our global climate actions from the FOLU sector.
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