Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) Design ...

2.4 OVERVIEW OF THE DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITY
As the KFCP is the first demonstration activity under the IAFCP, the Governments of Indonesia and
Australia will work in partnership to pursue multiple objectives intended to demonstrate REDDrelated
activities at a scale that will achieve development results and co-benefits while also generating
knowledge that can applied elsewhere in Indonesia and used to inform international discussions on
REDD. The KFCP is intended to be a learning activity in which technical, scientific, and
institutional innovations are tested, refined, and communicated to add to the body of REDD
knowledge and experience. The KFCP goal is stated below. The Objective Tree for the KFCP
(Figure 2) indicates its goal, purpose, four components, and supporting outputs to achieve REDDrelated
results. 9 The four components correspond to the key aspects of REDD: 1) reducing GHG
emissions through incentives to local people and technical means; 2) developing methods and
capacity to measure and monitor GHG emissions; 3) developing and testing equitable and practicable
payment mechanisms to channel financial payments to those people and organisations that contribute
to achieving emissions reductions, and 4) building institutional and technical readiness on the part of
local government and villages to implement REDD on a sustainable basis.
KFCP Goal: to demonstrate a credible, equitable, and effective approach to reducing
greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including from the
degradation of peatlands, that can inform a post-2012 global climate change agreement and
enable Indonesia’s meaningful participation in future international carbon markets.
The KFCP is one of the first large-scale REDD demonstration activities in Indonesia and the first in
tropical peatland anywhere in the world. Land clearing and fires in Indonesia‘s peatlands are a major
source of global GHG emissions because these ecosystems contain very high carbon stocks, mostly in
belowground biomass. Exposed peat dries rapidly, resulting in oxidation of the organic matter, and
creating a serious threat of fire in dry periods. Halting peatland drainage, along with stopping or
reversing degradation/deforestation of peat swamp forest, offers great potential for emission
reductions.
The KFCP will work to contribute to REDD in many areas, including:
Demonstrating genuine emissions reductions can be achieved from REDD activities;
Demonstrating credible, equitable, and effective approaches to REDD;
Trialing innovative, market-oriented approaches to REDD financing and REDD
implementation measures;
Documenting the positive and negative social and economic impacts of the REDD
demonstration on participating communities, especially focusing on the results of KFCP
interventions targeted at communities;
Providing lessons learned from the KFCP for Indonesia and Australia to introduce to the
UNFCCC negotiations on REDD to support efforts to include REDD in a post-2012 global
climate change outcome;
Contributing to IAFCP objectives by complementing and supporting IAFCP activities
including the Roadmap for Access to International Carbon Markets, the development of the
FRIS and INCAS for Indonesia, and the FWI project;
Demonstrating how to effectively manage and conserve tropical peat forests based on
state-of-the-art scientific knowledge, with the potential to apply these techniques throughout
Indonesia‘s extensive peatlands;
Producing co-benefits in terms of providing livelihood options and cash payments for REDD
services to target villages, conserving biodiversity, reducing health impacts and economic
losses from smoke, and clarifying land tenure and property rights of communities, thereby
providing a basis for economic security while reducing the threat of conflict;
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The KFCP goal has been divided into a goal and purpose statement in keeping with standard practice.
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