PALMOILMAGAZINE, ROMA – Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, affirmed Indonesia’s commitment to ambitious climate targets and biodiversity conservation at the 27th Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome.
During the session titled “The 2024 Forests of the World: Forestry Innovation Heading to a More Sustainable Future,” Siti commended the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for its publication, which highlighted a global decrease in deforestation.
Minister Siti noted that Indonesia’s deforestation rate decreased by approximately 8.4 percent from 2021 to 2022. “We appreciate the positive news from the State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) report, which shows significant reductions in deforestation in several countries, including Indonesia,” she said in an official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
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She continued the losses of mangrove forests globally decreased 23 percent in gross net between 2000 – 2010 and 2010 – 2020. “This, of course, is a good news. But we have more to get,” Minister Siti said.
Indonesia re-emphasized its climate targets by handing over nationally determined contribution (NDC) that was perfected in 2022. She said emission reduction in Indonesia reached 47,3% in 2020; 43,8% in 2021; and 41,6% in 2022 if compared to annual baseline. The numbers were closer to NDC that reached 43,2% with the international scale – performance and surpassed the national scale target that reached 31,89%.
The approach to manage natural resources and climate action implementation in Indonesia were integrated and systematically running through 15 climate action clusters managed by operational plans of forest and other land use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030. The plans were legally bonded and not only the commitment on papers. The initiatives of the 2030 FOLU Net Sink also specifically prioritized the protection, such as, for orangutan, elephants, tigers, rhinos, and other species to confirm that their population would keep developing and be avoided from extinction.
“The mainstream of natural diversity conservation including the wild, habitat protection, and advantaging natural resource sustainably would be very significant to realize the same goals in the global natural diversity work frame. Even though FOLU net sink would be targeted in 2030 nationally, the main landscape in Sumatera, Kalimantan, and Papua have got the historical milestone,” Minister Siti explained.
To support and encourage innovations in – forest base, Indonesia launched some programs, such as, the 2030 FOLU Net Sink, minimize deforestation, escalate the control in the forest fire, social forestry and indigenous forests. Besides, Indonesia also promoted conservation areas by implementing resort – based management (RBM), spatial monitoring and reporting Tool (SMART), escalate forestry, peat ecosystem, and mangrove governance, and wood legal and verification system.
“Every innovation and program had been explained in our latest publication ‘’The State of Indonesia’s Forests 2024′, which was the version of Indonesia from SOFO 2024 and launched on Tuesday, 23 July 2024,” Minister Siti said. (P2)
