If the global community is to solve the challenge of climate change, we are going to need to make the most of every opportunity available to us. Among these opportunities, forests rank as an important and unique way to tackle the challenge.
Addressing this issue is commonly known as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, or REDD.
Indonesia and Australia share a strong commitment on REDD and are working collaboratively to support an effective outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Australia has committed $30 million to the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership. This Partnership is the first, large-scale REDD demonstration activity of its kind in Indonesia. It aims to demonstrate a credible, equitable and effective approach to REDD, including from the degradation of peatland, that can inform a post-2012 climate change agreement.
The initial focus is on an area of 120,000 hectares of forested and degraded peatland in the province of Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
Fact sheets
International Forest Carbon Initiative
Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership