- The latest CDP findings show globally, to achieve zero deforestation goals by 2030, companies and governments need a seismic shift in their approach to halting deforestation.
- By working collaboratively with public and private stakeholders, and local communities, the Government of Indonesia, has reduced deforestation rates by 75% since 2018-19.
- Landscape and jurisdictional approaches provide a management framework that enables collaboration across multiple stakeholders and sectors, enabling renewed commitments made at Glasgow to end deforestation by 2030.
- There is a 50% increase of companies in Indonesia engaging with landscape and jurisdictional approaches. Including companies such as Danone, Cargill, and Golden-Agri Resources.
(Jakarta, 27th January 2022) A new policy brief published by CDP today, the not-for-profit which runs the world’s largest environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states, and regions, suggests that Indonesia is on its way towards achieving its goal for a more sustainable future for the country. The report shows there are positive signs that the Government of Indonesia (GoI) is committed to halting deforestation and promoting the implementation of landscapes and jurisdictional approaches (LA/JA) in Indonesia.
CDP’s new policy brief highlights the role that LA/JA’splay in creating harmony between government, private and public sectors. The objective of LA/JA is to balance different and conflicting land-use demands by employing long-term strategies involving local stakeholders focusing on their shared sustainability goals. These emerging approaches coordinate companies, government, local communities, and civil society working together and look to be strengthening the GoI’s ability to halt deforestation by 2030.
Thomas Maddox, Global Director Forests and Land, CDP, said, “Globally responses to climate change are still nowhere near what we need to meet the Paris Agreement targets, and individual action often acts as a barrier to success, so the need for collaborative action has never been greater. LA/JA helps to tackle both environmental and social problems on the ground and we hope that this report helps to raise awareness of the benefits of LA/JA approach and the urgent need for further collaborative action.”
Last year, in Indonesia, deforestation rates fell by 75% covering an area 5 times larger than Jakarta (when compared to the rates across 2018-19) a goal achieved through public and private stakeholders working collaboratively with the GoI. This collaboration has been enabled in part by LA/JA.LA/JA is an emerging holistic approach for sustainable land-use management gaining prominence globally. CDP’s latest policy brief shows LA/JAis needed to reverse the damage caused by deforestation, in 2018-19, deforestation rates reached 462,500ha, which is the size of 650,000 soccer fields. LA/JA will also be crucial in ensuring that Indonesiaand the rest of the world stick to the global deforestation pledge made at COP26 in November 2021 to halt deforestation by 2030.
Indonesia is leading the way globally in implementing LA/JA, CDP’s latest policy brief shows. For example, the Sustainable Districts Association or LTKL is a district government association formed and managed to realize sustainable development through the cooperation principle by multi-stakeholders. Established in 2017 by eight districts, currently, LTKL has nine district members and is working collaboratively with more than 20 prominent partners from global, national, and regional levels, including CDP. The GoI is also leading the way in ensuring progress from LA/JA is monitored and recorded so best practices can be shared globally through an initiative led by BAPPENAS (Ministry of National Development Planning) and funded by the European Union (The Terpercaya Initiative).
John Leung, Director, Southeast Asia and Oceania, CDP said, “At COP26, President of the Republic of the Indonesia, H.E. Joko Widodo highlighted Indonesia’s efforts to use its abundant natural resources as a key strategy in lowering its carbon emissions. Deforestation has dropped to the lowest levels in 20 years, forest fires were down 82 per cent in 2020 and the rehabilitation of huge areas of peatlands and mangrove forests is underway.”
In Indonesia, there are at least 23 active or ongoing jurisdictional approaches implemented in eight provinces and 14 districts. Seven provinces in Indonesia have disclosed their ongoing implementations through CDP in 2020 and only five of them stated that they were aware of an implemented LA/JA which covers a total forest area of 56% in the country. Common conditions available in the five provinces include 1) identified deforestation and/ or forest degradation as issues in the region, 2) has a policy in place to address deforestation and/ or forest degradation, 3) has a climate change action plan, and 4) actively collaborated with business or private sectors in environmental and forest management. Globally, engagement with LA/JA also remain low with only 28% (38 out of 131) of global states reported to CDP in 2020 knew about LA/JA.
Gita Syahrani, Head of Secretariat, Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL) said, “We have seen first-hand how collaborative efforts across various stakeholders including government, private sectors, NGOs and community at large through jurisdictional approach could leverage sustainability on the ground at our district members. However, it is essential to ensure that each stakeholders understand why sustainable development is beneficial and valuable. Only by doing so, we can drive even stronger collaborations. With this approach, we can also go as far as shifting the appetite for nature exploitation or destruction to sustainable consumption and production.”
Thus, CDP recommends the following actions to enforce sustainability and environmental policies effectively on the ground.
The multi-stakeholder platform can facilitate collaboration and encourage inclusivity of all relevant actors (governments, private sectors, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, and communities) in planning, developing, implementing, and monitoring the shared sustainability and environmental goals.
Commitments from the multi-stakeholder platform can be secured and maintained withlong-term policies (whether newly developed or existing ones) that transcend the governmental periods.
The provincial and district governments need to lead and coordinate the multiple international and national frameworks and initiatives operating in their region to achieve the expected landscape/ jurisdictional outcomes effectively.
By data collection, reporting, and monitoring, sub-national governments can show progress in tackling complex environmental and social issues in their respective regions and demonstrate their contribution to global commitments (for example: NDCs and SDGs) and make their progress more accessible to the global market.
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Notes to editors
1Definition of Landscape approach:
Landscape Approaches involve a collaboration of stakeholders within a landscape to advance shared sustainability goals and reconcile and optimize multiple social, economic, and environmental objectives across multiple economic sectors and land uses. They are implemented through processes of integrated landscape management, convening diverse stakeholders to develop and implement land-use plans, policies, investments, and other interventions.
1Definition of Jurisdictional approach:
Jurisdictional Approaches are a type of landscape approach to advance shared sustainability goals where the landscape is defined by administrative boundaries of subnational governments and the approach is implemented with a high level of government involvement.
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Thanks to the Walmart Foundation for providing the funding for this policy brief.