Developing policy responsive to climate
change and the Carbon Economy of
Indonesia
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Integrated management
Environment
Biodiversity
Ecology
Climate
Carbon
Dynamics
REDD
Forestry
agriculture
Policy
Ethnicity
Mining
Culture
Emissions Employment Health
Trading
Education Law
Economy
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Religion
Social
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Project Aim
Respond proactively to climate
change by developing land and
forest management strategies to
deliver sustainable social economic
and environmental benefit to
Indonesia
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Approaches
• User-friendly integrated models to
explore consequences of
alternative policy actions and of
likely climate change scenarios
• Knowledge management for
coordinating information exchange
among agencies and stakeholders
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Common Problems
• Poor communication and coordination
among agencies responsive to land and
forest management
• Poverty reduction strategies can lead to
unsustainable development
• Climate change requires a coordinated
approach among and within states
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Knowledge management
• Consolidates diverse information
streams
– Formal e.g. Science
– Informal e.g. Local lore, traditional customs
• Promotes a shared understanding of the
problem (e.g. Climate change)
• Identifies integrated solutions (central to
local)
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Knowledge Management
TASK Forest
Management
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KM: Structure and Function
Reporting
Storage
Culture
Retrieval
Governance
AccountabilityDissemmination
ICT
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Land Use
Forestry
Mining
Community
Development
Integrated
models
Low Carbon
Growth
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Knowledge Management
Not knowing more but
Understanding better
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Central Kalimantan
Ministry of
Environment
Aforestation
Protection of
peat lands
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Ministry of
Forestry
Economic
Development
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Kalimantan Forests and Climate
Partnership
Sustainable
forestry
Alternative
Low carbon livelihoods for
growth
forest
dependent
communities
Central
Kalimantan
Planning
Development
Agency
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Resolving legal conflict
Ministry of
Energy and
Mineral
Resources
Law 4/2009 Mining
Law 26/2007 Spatial
planning
Ministry of
Forestry
Law 41/1999 Forestry
Law 32/2009 Environmental Protection
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A unified spatial planning framework
Legal and
regulatory
framework
Alternative
Low carbon livelihoods for
growth
forest
dependent
communities
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REDD + Unresolved Issues
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Governance
Land Tenure
Livelihoods
Financial Mechanisms
MRV
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Future activities
• Extend Knowledge management to
agencies responsive to the Carbon
Economy
• Develop a framework which coordinates
the activities of stakeholders for
sustainable development and low carbon
growth
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Developing policy responsive to climate
change and the Carbon Economy of
Indonesia
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