Blog Posts: forests

While Indonesia has made some steps to meet its climate action targets, it now needs more of a long-term vision.

If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in global emissions behind China and the United States. Tree cover loss is on the rise, but channeling climate mitigation finance towards forests could change the course of the world's climate.

Most people don’t associate cities with trees, but urban areas are actually dependent on healthy forests. A new initiative helps cities protect trees—both those within city boundaries and others hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

Countries are joining the restoration movement, and especially the Bonn Challenge. But few have yet aligned their restoration and climate commitments. Doing so would make the planet greener—and the air cleaner—faster.

The habits of people in Mangun Jaya, Banyuasin, South Sumatra is still dominated by a culture of extraction that takes natural resources directly without processing it first. Yet, the management of oil resources offers huge and rapid profits that encourage people to engage in high-risk areas. Find out more from Hendrika Samosir's story about people's lives in Mangun Jaya.

Indonesia's indigenous communities claim more than 40 million hectares of land, but they only manage a tiny fraction. Granting control back to communities could improve environmental outcomes, as it has in Gajah Bertalut, a community in Riau.

Indonesia sees more than 24 million hectares of degraded land, equivalent to almost twice the size of England, with such large size of degraded land, restoration is inevitable. But, we could save 2 million hectares of degraded land with good data. Read more in this article.

Does the rule of law disallow the government to make any changes in the law that have adverse effects on exiting permits or legal obligations/rights? Read more in the article.

New research from WRI and others shows that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars.

How is the position of women in Kenegerian Gajah Bertalut today? Is the establishment of a political power based on a nation state (kingdom/republic) that places men in a privileged position, affecting women's access in the public spaces? Read more in this article.