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Indonesia to boost sustainable forestry to create low carbon prosperity
09/12/2009
Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has made a promise to try to reduce the country’s carbon emissions by 26 per cent by 2020. Part of the plan to achieve this ambitious goal is to increase the amount of sustainable forestry taking place in the country.
The president says that the reduction in emissions should not prevent Indonesia’s efforts to improve the living standards of its people. Yudhoyono is now working alongside the National Council on Climate Change to develop ways of achieving his goals of reducing climate change without stalling economic growth.
The plan is to create an infrastructure in which the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) can take place. The plan is to reduce the emissions from REDD, the idea for which was first put together at the Bali Climate Change Conference in 2007.
Moves to stamp out practices like illegal logging, which damage the environment, increase emissions and harm the economy, is a priority for Indonesia. The production of palm oil is also a huge problem as producers are cutting down forested land to create palm plantations. Instead, they should be using already degraded land but tenure and planning issues prevent this.
Yudhoyono’s plans are a further indication that sustainable forestry is to take a central role in reducing emissions across the world.
The president says that the reduction in emissions should not prevent Indonesia’s efforts to improve the living standards of its people. Yudhoyono is now working alongside the National Council on Climate Change to develop ways of achieving his goals of reducing climate change without stalling economic growth.
The plan is to create an infrastructure in which the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) can take place. The plan is to reduce the emissions from REDD, the idea for which was first put together at the Bali Climate Change Conference in 2007.
Moves to stamp out practices like illegal logging, which damage the environment, increase emissions and harm the economy, is a priority for Indonesia. The production of palm oil is also a huge problem as producers are cutting down forested land to create palm plantations. Instead, they should be using already degraded land but tenure and planning issues prevent this.
Yudhoyono’s plans are a further indication that sustainable forestry is to take a central role in reducing emissions across the world.
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