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East Kalimantan Environmentally Sustainable Development Strategy

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26<br />

Exhibit 9<br />

Shifting into higher value add activities and low carbon sectors could boost<br />

<strong>East</strong> <strong>Kalimantan</strong>’s real GDP growth from 3% to 5%<br />

<strong>East</strong> <strong>Kalimantan</strong>’s real GDP forecast<br />

IDR Trillions<br />

280<br />

260<br />

240<br />

220<br />

200<br />

180<br />

160<br />

140<br />

120<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

20<br />

0<br />

2005<br />

SOURCE: team analysis<br />

10<br />

15<br />

20<br />

25<br />

2030<br />

<strong>Environmentally</strong><br />

<strong>Sustainable</strong><br />

<strong>Development</strong><br />

<strong>Strategy</strong><br />

Business<br />

As Usual<br />

CAGR<br />

GDP per<br />

capita 2030<br />

IDR Millions<br />

animals and plants, such as the orangutan, clouded leopard, and river dolphins. Finally, <strong>East</strong><br />

<strong>Kalimantan</strong> wants to be known as a green province and be an important contributor to Indonesia’s<br />

effort to be a global leader in addressing climate change.<br />

REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is a new framework that<br />

can both help reduce emissions and increase GDP. REDD+ is an international mechanism<br />

to mitigate global climate change by creating payments to protect forests and peatlands that<br />

would otherwise be converted from their natural state, for example, to be used as plantations. In<br />

fact, the abatement initiatives identified above can be considered to be part of a REDD+ strategy;<br />

reducing forest degradation through better logging techniques, ending the use of fire for land<br />

clearing, rehabilitating degraded peatlands, reforesting lands, and using degraded lands rather<br />

than forested lands for agriculture. REDD+ could be a powerful integrating framework for these<br />

initiatives. For example, after a concession is moved from forested land to degraded land, REDD<br />

payments could be used to ensure local communities and companies then protect the forested<br />

land. Otherwise, the forested land would be at risk of having a new, different concession issued for<br />

it in the future unless the land was re-zoned as protected land.<br />

DRAFT<br />

5%<br />

3%<br />

44.6<br />

33.2<br />

Concession buyout schemes, in which concessions are purchased from concession license<br />

holders to prevent forest clearing, should be a last resort as they could be quite costly. If an<br />

acacia plantation concession on forested land could not be moved to degraded land or reduced<br />

in size via improved yields, then the only option to avoid deforestation would be to buy out the<br />

concession in full. Payment for buyout schemes are still being worked out. For those cases where<br />

only past expenses or outlays are compensated, the cost of these schemes could be high, but<br />

not unreasonably so on a cost-per-abated-ton basis. However, if it were required to compensate<br />

concession holders and local communities for the complete loss of future revenue, then costs<br />

would become prohibitively high. Concession buyouts for palm oil and acacia concessions could

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