Indonesian-Australian carbon project in Sumatra
Indonesia and Australia announced on Tuesday a multi-million dollar initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
AFP in Yahoo! News | Mar 2, 2010
AFP/File – A fisherman (seen in distance) paddles his boat through devastated peatland forest in Indonesia's …
The Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership worth 30 million Australian dollars (27 million dollars) will address immediate threats to forest on mineral soils in Jambi province.
The announcement in a statement by Australian Climate ChangePenny Wong and Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan is an expansion of an existing agreement.
"The partnership in Jambi is a demonstration activity, which is a pilot project to show how you can reducegreenhouse gas emissions in practice," Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership coordinator Neil Scotland told AFP.
"The first demonstration activity already takes place in Central Kalimantan (Borneo)," he said, adding that it was in line with the UN-REDD programme on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
Rapid deforestation in Indonesia by legal and illegal loggers has made Indonesia one of the highest emitters ofgreenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Indonesia plans to reduce its emissions by 26 percent by 2020.
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