The partnership between Indonesia and Australia in the field of carbon emission reduction started with the Kalimantan Forest Climate Partnership. Both countries agreed to raise the intensity and the coverage of the partnership by signing the Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership - which aims at to fight climate change in the region with carbon-trading market development as its notable element.
Jakarta. Australian Climate Change and Water Minister Sen. Penny Wong and Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan announced Monday the establishment of a joint Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forest degradation and deforestation.
The A$3 million (US$2.7 million) project is an extension of existing efforts by the two neighbors to reducing emission from defo-restation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries within the framework of the Indonesia – Australia Forest Carbon Partnership agreed on by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in June 2008.
In a press statement, the Forestry Ministry said the new joint activity in Sumatra would address the immediate threats to forests on mineral soils in Jambi, complementing the existing joint activity in the carbon-rich peat forests in Central Kalimantan.
Source: The Jakarta Post – 02 March 2010
