REDD Programme Plus Return Discussed in Palangkaraya

Program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) will not work properly if it does not involve the local community. This statement was delivered William Boyd, Senior Adviser GCF (Governor's Climate and Forest Task Force), in a press conference to reporters, Monday, September 19, 2011 evening in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan.  "GCF is a unique collaboration," said Boyd is a researcher...

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Criticized, Kelapa Sawit So Forest Tree

Greenpeace condemned the release of the Minister of Forestry (Permenhut) which accommodates the oil palm as part of forest plants. This could potentially increase the destruction of peatland forests and increase carbon emissions. That policy contained in Permenhut Number 62/Menhut/II/2011 on Forest Plantation Development Guidelines on Various Types of Business License Timber Utilization in Industrial Forest Plantation...

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Stop the Project REDD Indonesia - Australia

Stop the Project REDD Indonesia - Australia At Territory Indigenous Dayak of Central Kalimantan We the undersigned, Mantir Peoples in Kadamangan Mantangai Kapuas in Central Kalimantan, has conducted serious talks on 7 - June 8, 2011 held at the Village Katunjung Mantangai Kapuas district of Central Kalimantan, the results of monitoring and evaluation of development of REDD projects of cooperation between Indonesia and...

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Many Bolder Blocks in Singkil Swamp Are No Longer Accurate

The Singkil Swamp is an important part of the Leuser Ecosystem, and is well known for its value in conserving biodiversity. In particular it holds the highest densities of orangutans in the world, and supports viable populations of python, crocodiles, and large turtles. Tigers also inhabit the area during the dry season and prey on the numerous deer, and pigs that live there. The Singkil swamp is also important as a significant...

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Govt Determined to Fight Forest Fires As Hot Spots Proliferate

The Indonesian government appears to be determined to reduce the number of forest fire hot spots by 20 percent annually in order to help meet the country`s pledge to cut its gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020. “Indonesia has successfully reduced the number of forest fires over the past three years, and this year, the government is determined to do a similar thing as the National Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics...

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Sustainability is the new buzzword

Dire forecasts about climate change and the global failure to rein in the growing carbon footprint has made it imperative for both industry and grassroots movement to not only advocate sustainability but embrace it. "Unfortunately for many decades, we have delayed taking action to protect our environment, which is now at the edge of collapse. We have been brushing our problems aside to dream of solutions tomorrow . But...

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New proposal aims to put more green shackles on developing economies

The meeting was meant to review the work done two decades after the famed Rio summit or the UN meet on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. But the Rio+20 conference is turning into another global ground to put green fetters on developing economies. A proposal floated in the run-up to the main meeting has suggested "sustainable development goals" along the lines of millennium development goals. But the goals...

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$40bn a year could halve deforestation worldwide

Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century.That is the conclusion of a major new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which argues that investing an average of $40bn a year in forest protection would allow forests to absorb 28 per cent more...

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