Forest and climate change
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Indonesia is an important actor in international fora on enviromental-, development and trade policy. Norway has since 1990 had an ongoing cooperation on the environmental field with Indonesia, due to the major significance Indonesia has regarding environment, biological diversity and global environmental outlook. |
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Indonesia houses the world third largest rainforest areas after the Amazon and Congo rainforest. The rainforest areas in Indonesia are threatened by climate changes, illegal logging, forest fires and establishment of large scale plantation areas on former forest areas. A high rate of deforestation also results in large greenhouse gas emissions, especially from carbon rich peat lands. |
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The bilateral cooperation on enviroment includes a political dialogue regarding climate issues and efforts towards illegal forest activities and illegal logging and trade with tropical wood. Indonesia is also an important part of the Norwegian Government`s climate- and forest initiative and serves as one of the nine pilot countries for the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries. (UN-REDD) |
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Norway is currently supporting the following environmental projects and organizations in Indonesia:
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| - The Forest Governance Program |
| - ‘Facing an Illegal Logging Crisis’ |
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- ‘Fighting Illegal Logging’ |
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- Rainforest Foundation Norway |
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UGM is planning to expand their cooperation with UiA and other Norwegian universities. The Embassy has provided UGM with a fund of approximately USD 144.000 to carry out a multidisciplinary research and curriculum development for students interested in the REDD+ initiative. The research focuses on challenges in land use and land tenure in Katingan District of Central Kalimantan the REDD+ pilot... Read more
Phase 2 of the cooperation continues to support students and faculty at both University of Gajah Mada and University of Oslo in pursuing research related to REDD+ issues. Specifically the students will complete their master thesis in 2012, based on accumulated knowledge of the policy and framework analyses of REDD+ development, as well as the civil society engagement and local communities... Read more
The project 'International Cooperation for Helping Countries facing an Illegal Logging Crisis' focuses on how to reduce illegal logging in Indonesia by applying an ‘integrated approach’ which not only looks at the forestry sector itself, but also money-laundering, corruption, and the financial structures which make illegal logging possible. The project will identify hindrances in law enforcem Read more
The Forest Governance program is administered by the Partnership for Governance Reform. It has been developed in order to sustain and further develop the work initiated by the DfID-funded Multistakeholder Forestry Programme. Read more
FGP aims to accelerate development of forest and climate governance through policy development and practices that reduce deforestation and forest degradation, as well as increase access to forests resources for forest dependent communities and Indigenous Peoples. The Forest Governance program is administered by the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan). The purpose of the program is to... Read more
The aim of this project is to prepare government, industry and civil society in Indonesia to include revenues from the Forestry sector into the country’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) reporting system. Currently forestry is not considered as a part of extractive industries, however, within the Indonesian budget system, the extractive industries include forestry sector, Read more
Yayasan Pengembangan Biosains dan Bioteknologi untuk Pembangunan (YPBB) or Foundation for Development of Bioscience and Biotechnology received a total of approximately USD 195.000 for 2011 to 2012, as a bridging fund to support the Papua Provincial Planning Office with formulating and put to practice the 100 year Blueprint for Sustainable Development of Papua province. This program will be.. Read more
Building capacity in order to scale up existing efforts to reduce carbon emissions at both the provincial and national level. Read more
The Rainforest Foundation is cooperating with local partners to protect Indonesia’s forests and strengthen the rights of local forest peoples. Read more
This project is linked to the CIFOR-project 'International Cooperation for Helping Countries facing an Illegal Logging Crisis', but has a more specific geographical focus. Based to a large extent on CIFOR’s findings, this project aims to reduce illegal logging in Central Kalimantan using an integrated approach. It does so by giving capacity building and other forms of assistance to a variety of... Read more
Indonesia-Norway Partnership supports the Reducing greenhouse gas Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative. The Letter of Intent ( link ) signed in May 2010, outlines the REDD+ cooperation agreement between the two governments. To support GOI in meeting the deliverables of the preparation phase, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Indonesia has bee Read more
Norway and its partner UNODC are supporting efforts to combat anti-corruption in the forestry sector in Indonesia. Read more
Norway is supporting efforts to assist the Indonesian Government in developing a national REDD strategy. Read more