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View all search resultsA decade of partnership between Indonesia, Norway to combat climate change
Within the last few years, Indonesia has made comprehensive efforts and achievements in reforming domestic forest and land-use management policies.
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he year 2020 may be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this year marks two important milestones between Indonesia and Norway.
As we commemorate 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, we also observe 10 years of bilateral partnership in combating deforestation and climate change. Ten years ago in May 2010, Indonesia and Norway were committed into a partnership by signing a bilateral agreement (LOI) to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) under the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Through this agreement Indonesia aimed to reform its forest management and reduce its carbon emissions with the support of Norway, which pledged to provide financial assistance of up to US$1 billion for Indonesia’s policies and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Within the last 10 years, Indonesia through its national action plan, has set an ambitious target to reduce its national emissions by 26 percent in 2020. The largest portion of this reduction was envisioned through reducing deforestation, forest degradation and conversion of peatland. Norway has given its support not only financially but also through scientific and technical support.
The early years of cooperation, which is defined as the preparation phase, were utilized to identify the challenges that Indonesia faced in its forest management and means of cooperation to tackle these challenges.
In the second phase of the partnership, defined as the transformation phase, various programs and activities were launched to increase Indonesia’s capacity to achieve its target or Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). In 2016, Indonesia ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and shortly thereafter a number of legal reforms were implemented by the Indonesian government to provide the necessary legal foundation to support Indonesia’s forest management.
The Agency for Peatland Restoration (BRG) was formed in 2016 with the task of restoring 2 million hectares of degraded peatland and in 2017 a moratorium was issued to protect peatland across the country. The following year, the Indonesian government also issued a moratorium on the conversion of forests into new oil palm plantations.
