East Kalimantan Environmentally Sustainable Development Strategy

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Both Berau and Malinau are large, still heavily forested districts. But Malinau is part of the Heart of
Borneo area with protected forests, and thus has one third of the emissions of Berau despite being
30 percent larger in size. Likewise, forestry and non-timber forest products make up 40 percent
of Malinau’s GDP, whereas the largest sector in Berau is coal and mining at 40 percent of its GDP.
Thus, a one-size-fits-all policy for low-carbon growth for the province would be impractical, given
the different economic and emission realities facing East Kalimantan’s districts.
2. East Kalimantan’s environmentally
sustainable development strategy
East Kalimantan is committed to moving onto a climate-compatible development
pathway. In a developing economy like East Kalimantan, the people will not choose to reduce CO2
emissions if to do so means retarding economic growth. This strategy does not require that choice.
A core principle of this development strategy is that economic development and CO2 mitigation
can be mutually reinforcing. East Kalimantan’s low carbon growth strategy reconciles growth with
climate change mitigation by focusing on: 1) reducing the carbon footprint of its current economic
sectors, 2) moving to higher value-added activities and new low-carbon activities, and 3) acting to
make the economy and infrastructure resilient to climate change.
Achieving truly climate-compatible development will require substantial changes to
East Kalimantan’s economic structure, land-use planning, and government policy. It
will also require a new mindset focused on long-term, environmentally-sustainable development
taking hold within the government, the business community, and the non-profit sector. Finally,
these changes will require additional financing. As above, a principal goal of the low carbon
Environmentally sustainable development is a holistic approach where
economic growth, CO2 mitigation, and adaptation go hand in hand
DRAFT
Framework for environmentally
sustainable development
Environmentally sustainable development
Economic
development
CO2
Mitigation
Institutional
enablers
Adaptation
Key elements
CO2 mitigation
▪ Estimate the size of current and future emissions
▪ Assess the technical abatement potential and
feasibility and implementation cost of individual
mitigation initiatives
Economic development
▪ Analyze existing competitive strengths and
weaknesses
▪ Explore potential new sources of growth
(providing less carbon emissions)
Adaptation
▪ Analyze existing and future climate threats
▪ Explore adaptation measures and estimate total
cost of realization
Institutional enablers
▪ Develop strategy for critical enablers (e.g.,
monitoring and evaluation, spatial planning,
community engagement)
▪ Estimate the total costs of realizing these
opportunities
Exhibit 6
SOURCE: DNPI – Low carbon growth team; team analysis