This document discusses forests and the Paris Agreement in Asia Pacific regions. It notes that Asia Pacific regions contain 26% of the world's tropical rainforests and play a key role in achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise. REDD+ negotiations over the past 10 years have produced guidance for implementing REDD+ with result-based finance. Private sector engagement is also recognized. The document outlines opportunities for collaboration among Asia Pacific countries in implementing NDCs and developing transparency frameworks under the Paris Agreement, particularly for the forest sector.

1. Forest and Paris Agreement
Dr. Nur Masripatin
General Director of Climate
Ministry of Environemnet and Forestry – INDONESIA
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit,
ICC-Berakas Brunei Darussalam 3-5 August 2016

2. Asia Pacific Forest In
Numbers
 740 million hectares of forest area or 26 % of global tropical
rain forests
 Asia Pacific region plays key roles in achieving the global goal
to prevent the temperature increase well below 2 degrees
celcious as compared to pre-industrial era.
 4.4 billion people or 60 % of the world population
 Asia Pacific region could play strategic roles in achieving
global sustainable development goals.
 With these outlooks of forest and population, forest sector will
be an important part of NDC in many countries of Asia Pacific
region.

3. Ten Years REDD+
Negotiation and Piloting
 Forest has also been an important part of the climate negotiations since
the past ten years,
 The alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation in developing
countries on one side and the recognition of the role of forest resources for
national development and livelihood for millions of people on another,
has placed forest as a key sector in climate negotiation agenda.
 Ten years negotiation under UNFCCC has produced sufficient guidance
for both REDD+ and partner countries to implement REDD+ with result-
based finance.
 At the same period, piloting with REDD+ at various scales and
approaches has set light on to what issues to be addressed for REDD+ full
implementation
 REDD+ has also provided example and valuable lessons for developing
transparency framework mandated by Paris Agreement

4. Support for REDD+
 Centre for Global Development (2015) recorded pledges
made between 2006-2014 was about USD 9.8 billion in
which almost 90 % of the pledges originated from public
sector. The record also indicated a slow trend of pledges
after 2010.
 FAO recorded other USD 5 billion of joint Norway,
Germany and UK pledges by 2020 during COP-21 for
REDD+.
 The challenge now is how to effectively incentivise
REDD+ countries with the existing rules including
Warsaw Framework, while preparing the
implementation of Paris Agreement from 2020 onwards.

5. Role of Private Sector
 Recognized under Decision 1/CP.16 (enhance
engagement of Non Party Stakeholder including
private sector
 COP Presidencies-High level Champions- NAZCA
 Internalization to national context should be in
accordance with national regulations, policies,
national circumstancies and capacities.

6. Positive Impacts to Forest
Governance
 Developing countries (Asia Pacific Region) have shown the
progression of their efforts to strengthen governance system
through various policy interventions .
 Some examples, certification schemes related to sustainable forest
management including the assurance of sustainable sources of
timber being exported and imported.
 Strengthening trade cooperation that provide sufficient market
incentives to sustainable forest products are keys for the
successful efforts in protecting the remaining forest.
 Indonesia Case, for examples: improving spatial planning and
complying to spatial plan through ONE MAP policy and policy
reform in the effort of restoring degraded peat lands and
transforming towards sustainable peat land ecosystem
management.

7. Indonesia Contribution
 Indonesia has made commitment as reflected in its INDC to
reduce emission by 29% under the Business as Usual in 2030
up to 41% with international support.
 With this commitment, Indonesia will need to formulate and
communicate a long term low carbon development strategy.
 Three principles will guide the NDC implementation,
1. enable economic growth and put people’s welfare as priority,
especially with regard to food security and energy resilience;
2. support protection of poor and vulnerable communities and
environment conservation in the framework of sustainable
development and;
3. focus on core interventions that reduce emissions and
strengthen policy framework.

8. Opportunities for Collaboration
 Diversity of national circumstances, capacities and capabilities open
opportunity for a wide range of areas for regional collaboration
 Investment in sustainable forestry or in a broader scale sustainable
landscape under various schemes beyond UNFCCC.
 With NDCs, parties are to undertake and communicate ambitious efforts
on mitigation, adaptation, means of implementation (provision of finance,
technology and capacity building by developed to developing countries),
and transparency framework.
 The transparency framework will play a critical role in assessing both
collective and individual contributions to the global efforts in achieving
the climate convention objective.
 Asia Pacific countries could collaborate in building and implementing the
transparency framework both for actions and supports, including, in
addressing methodological challenges on forest/land sector accounting.

9. THANK YOU
TERIMA KASIH