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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - In a joint statement (Apr 19), Indonesia and the UK reaffirmed their shared commitment to elevating their 2022-2024 partnership roadmap to new heights, including matters such as climate change as well as low carbon and sustainable development, as focused on in this news report.
The partnership roadmap document mentions, among other things, the pursuit of global climate goals “through the fulfilment of financial pledges from developed countries”. Given that such a pledge was made more than a decade ago and has yet to be realized, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in September last year, Indonesia continues to push for it to be honoured.
The partnership roadmap will also continue its collaboration in support of Indonesia's low carbon development initiative, bearing in mind the relevant Indonesian laws and regulations, including specifically the presidential regulation (98/2021) on the economic value of carbon which prioritizes meeting the country's NDC targets.
Before heading to the G20 and COP26 summits last year, President Joko Widodo signed this landmark regulation which contains a clear set of legally-designated climate targets, as highlighted by the country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya and reported by FORESTHINTS. NEWS in late October last year.
In his two well-received speeches at COP26, President Widodo laid out Indonesia’s legally binding climate targets, among which are the country's 2060 or sooner net zero emissions target, the 2030 Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK target, and the implementation of the world's largest community-based mangrove rehabilitation initiative, as also covered by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in early November last year.
Tropical forest power, carbon markets
The Indonesia-UK partnership roadmap also states that the “Indonesian government’s efforts to enhance south-south cooperation on climate resilience are commendable.”
These efforts include the initiation by Minister Nurbaya of a tropical forest power collaboration in the run-up to COP26, emphasizing the substantial power and significant influence wielded by large tropical forest nations in terms of climate actions, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in October last year.
Other praiseworthy climate actions undertaken by Indonesia include the permanent legal ban on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands spanning an area of over 66 million hectares, or 2.7 times the size of the UK.
Furthermore, the trend of substantially declining deforestation from year to year in Indonesia – which is integral to the country meeting its FOLU NET SINK 2030 target - demonstrates the strong climate leadership of President's Widodo administration.
The latest update on deforestation in Indonesia from 2019/2020-2020/2021 was recently delivered by Minister Nurbaya in a meeting with a team of delegates from the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC). The country’s impressive falling rate of deforestation, even over the two-year period of the global pandemic, was reaffirmed at this meeting.
As such, Indonesia currently boastsmore than 90 million hectares of standing tropical forests, including those within the moratorium map, almost quadruple the size of the UK.
Meanwhile, in terms of carbon markets and trade, the partnership roadmap outlines its commitment to enhancing cooperation by means of dialogue between the two countries on carbon trade and carbon pricing, in line with the aforementioned landmark presidential regulation on the economic value of carbon to achieve Indonesia's NDC targets.
As recently reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Apr 11), Minister Nurbaya is continuing to take strict measures against carbon projects linked to illegal forestry operations, especially those that are not aligned with the landmark presidential regulation.
Aligning with FOLU NET SINK 2030, LCCR
Just months after COP26, Minister Nurbaya released the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan through a ministerial decree (Feb 24) aimed at implementing climate actions based around the landmark presidential regulation, as also reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Mar 12).
The statement from the Indonesia-UK partnership in fact refers to the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan, stating a commitment to “promote cooperation aligned with Indonesia's ambition to achieve net sink for the Forest and Land Use sector.”
The partnership also mentions the aim of “promoting the New Version of SVLK (Legality and Sustainability Verification System) as the Indonesian Certification of Sustainable Forest Management.” This system is another key part of Indonesia's efforts towards FOLU NET SINK 2030.
As to energy transition, according to the partnership roadmap, Indonesia will be assisted in attaining net zero emissions by 2060 or sooner, taking into consideration the country’s LTS-LCCR 2050 (Long Term Strategy for Low Carbon and Climate Resilience).
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - In a joint statement (Apr 19), Indonesia and the UK reaffirmed their shared commitment to elevating their 2022-2024 partnership roadmap to new heights, including matters such as climate change as well as low carbon and sustainable development, as focused on in this news report.
The partnership roadmap document mentions, among other things, the pursuit of global climate goals “through the fulfilment of financial pledges from developed countries”. Given that such a pledge was made more than a decade ago and has yet to be realized, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in September last year, Indonesia continues to push for it to be honoured.
The partnership roadmap will also continue its collaboration in support of Indonesia's low carbon development initiative, bearing in mind the relevant Indonesian laws and regulations, including specifically the presidential regulation (98/2021) on the economic value of carbon which prioritizes meeting the country's NDC targets.
Before heading to the G20 and COP26 summits last year, President Joko Widodo signed this landmark regulation which contains a clear set of legally-designated climate targets, as highlighted by the country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya and reported by FORESTHINTS. NEWS in late October last year.
In his two well-received speeches at COP26, President Widodo laid out Indonesia’s legally binding climate targets, among which are the country's 2060 or sooner net zero emissions target, the 2030 Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK target, and the implementation of the world's largest community-based mangrove rehabilitation initiative, as also covered by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in early November last year.
Tropical forest power, carbon markets
The Indonesia-UK partnership roadmap also states that the “Indonesian government’s efforts to enhance south-south cooperation on climate resilience are commendable.”
These efforts include the initiation by Minister Nurbaya of a tropical forest power collaboration in the run-up to COP26, emphasizing the substantial power and significant influence wielded by large tropical forest nations in terms of climate actions, as reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in October last year.
Other praiseworthy climate actions undertaken by Indonesia include the permanent legal ban on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands spanning an area of over 66 million hectares, or 2.7 times the size of the UK.
Furthermore, the trend of substantially declining deforestation from year to year in Indonesia – which is integral to the country meeting its 2030 FOLU NET SINK target - demonstrates the strong climate leadership of President's Widodo administration.
The latest update on deforestation in Indonesia from 2019/2020-2020/2021 was recently delivered by Minister Nurbaya in a meeting with a team of delegates from the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC). The country’s impressive falling rate of deforestation, even over the two-year period of the global pandemic, was reaffirmed at this meeting.
As such, Indonesia currently boasts more than 90 million hectares of standing tropical forests, including those within the moratorium map, almost quadruple the size of the UK.
Meanwhile, in terms of carbon markets and trade, the partnership roadmap outlines a commitment to enhancing cooperation by means of dialogue between the two countries on carbon trade and carbon pricing, in line with the aforementioned landmark presidential regulation on the economic value of carbon to achieve Indonesia's NDC targets.
As recently reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Apr 11), Minister Nurbaya is continuing to take strict measures against carbon projects linked to illegal forestry operations, especially those that are not aligned with the landmark presidential regulation.
Aligning with FOLU NET SINK 2030, LCCR
Just months after COP26, Minister Nurbaya released the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan through a ministerial decree (Feb 24) aimed at implementing climate actions based around the landmark presidential regulation, as also reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Mar 12).
The statement from the Indonesia-UK partnership in fact refers to the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan, stating a commitment to “promote cooperation aligned with Indonesia's ambition to achieve net sink for the Forest and Land Use sector.”
The partnership also mentions the aim of “promoting the New Version of SVLK (Legality and Sustainability Verification System) as the Indonesian Certification of Sustainable Forest Management.” This system is another key part of Indonesia's efforts towards FOLU NET SINK 2030.
As to energy transition, according to the partnership roadmap, Indonesia will be assisted in attaining net zero emissions by 2060 or sooner, taking into consideration the country’s LTS-LCCR 2050 (Long Term Strategy for Low Carbon and Climate Resilience).
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