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June 22, 2011 The Jakartaglobe Indonesia is a candidate for a share of $90 million in aid from Norway and Germany for World Bank programs to help slow tropical deforestation that is blamed for stoking climate change.
Norway, the top donor to protecting tropical forests that absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide as they grow, on Tuesday said it would give $50 million to a World Bank Carbon Fund as part of a Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, while Germany said it would add 30 million euros ($43 million) to past donations.
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Agus Purnomo | June 07, 2011, The Jakarta Globe It has been nearly three weeks since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a landmark presidential instruction binding Indonesia to a two-year moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for the conversion of primary forest and peatland.
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Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
May 20, 2011
The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The moratorium, which took effect January 1, 2011, but had yet to be defined until today's presidential decree, aims to slow Indonesia's deforestation rate, which is among the highest in the world. Indonesia agreed to establish the moratorium as part of its reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) agreement with Norway. Under the pact, Norway will provide up to a billion dollars in funds contingent on Indonesia's success in curtailing destruction of carbon-dense forests and peatlands.
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Fitrian Ardiansyah, Canberra ACT | Mon, 06/13/2011 6:44 PM The Jakarta Post This year’s World Environment Day, which sports the theme “Forests: Nature at your service” is likely to be celebrated in a more “colorful” way in Indonesia.
This may be due to the fact that in the last two weeks prior to June 5, three influential policies were issued by the government. These were two presidential decrees concerning forests and the most recent economic development master plan.
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Zubaidah Nazeer – Strait Times Indonesia | May 25, 2011 Cut logs being gathered from a peatland forest in a picture from a Greenpeace aerial survey mission over Sumatra last year. Some environmentalists say the moratorium is an 'anti-climax' and want it to cover existing concessions in forest areas. (AFP Photo) |
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