Forest and Paris Agreement

Dr. Nur MasripatinGeneral Director of ClimateMinistry of Environemnet and Forestry – INDONESIAThe 2nd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit,ICC-Berakas Brunei Darussalam 3-5 August 2016

Asia Pacific Forest In Numbers

740 million hectares of forest area or 26 % of global tropical rain forests

Asia Pacific region plays key roles in achieving the global goal to prevent the temperature increase well below 2 degrees celcious as compared to pre-industrial era.

4.4 billion people or 60 % of the world population Asia Pacific region could play strategic roles in achieving

global sustainable development goals. With these outlooks of forest and population, forest

sector will be an important part of NDC in many countries of Asia Pacific region.

Ten Years REDD+ Negotiation and Piloting Forest has also been an important part of the climate negotiations since

the past ten years, The alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation in developing

countries on one side and the recognition of the role of forest resources for national development and livelihood for millions of people on another, has placed forest as a key sector in climate negotiation agenda.

Ten years negotiation under UNFCCC has produced sufficient guidance for both REDD+ and partner countries to implement REDD+ with result-based finance.

At the same period, piloting with REDD+ at various scales and approaches has set light on to what issues to be addressed for REDD+ full implementation

REDD+ has also provided example and valuable lessons for developing transparency framework mandated by Paris Agreement

Support for REDD+

Centre for Global Development (2015) recorded pledges made between 2006-2014 was about USD 9.8 billion in which almost 90 % of the pledges originated from public sector. The record also indicated a slow trend of pledges after 2010.

FAO recorded other USD 5 billion of joint Norway, Germany and UK pledges by 2020 during COP-21 for REDD+.

The challenge now is how to effectively incentivise REDD+ countries with the existing rules including Warsaw Framework, while preparing the implementation of Paris Agreement from 2020 onwards.

Role of Private Sector

Recognized under Decision 1/CP.16 (enhance engagement of Non Party Stakeholder including private sector

COP Presidencies-High level Champions- NAZCA

Internalization to national context should be in accordance with national regulations, policies, national circumstancies and capacities.

Positive Impacts to Forest Governance

Developing countries (Asia Pacific Region) have shown the progression of their efforts to strengthen governance system through various policy interventions .

Some examples, certification schemes related to sustainable forest management including the assurance of sustainable sources of timber being exported and imported.

Strengthening trade cooperation that provide sufficient market incentives to sustainable forest products are keys for the successful efforts in protecting the remaining forest.

Indonesia Case, for examples: improving spatial planning and complying to spatial plan through ONE MAP policy and policy reform in the effort of restoring degraded peat lands and transforming towards sustainable peat land ecosystem management.

Indonesia Contribution Indonesia has made commitment as reflected in its INDC to

reduce emission by 29% under the Business as Usual in 2030 up to 41% with international support.

With this commitment, Indonesia will need to formulate and communicate a long term low carbon development strategy.

Three principles will guide the NDC implementation, 1. enable economic growth and put people’s welfare as priority,

especially with regard to food security and energy resilience;2. support protection of poor and vulnerable communities and

environment conservation in the framework of sustainable development and;

3. focus on core interventions that reduce emissions and strengthen policy framework.

Opportunities for Collaboration

Diversity of national circumstances, capacities and capabilities open opportunity for a wide range of areas for regional collaboration

Investment in sustainable forestry or in a broader scale sustainable landscape under various schemes beyond UNFCCC.

With NDCs, parties are to undertake and communicate ambitious efforts on mitigation, adaptation, means of implementation (provision of finance, technology and capacity building by developed to developing countries), and transparency framework.

The transparency framework will play a critical role in assessing both collective and individual contributions to the global efforts in achieving the climate convention objective.

Asia Pacific countries could collaborate in building and implementing the transparency framework both for actions and supports, including, in addressing methodological challenges on forest/land sector accounting.

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