Report for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) - UMS

staff). They try to develop national demonstration objects. CBD should be part of the
project as well. Location: Borneo, Berau district. Size: 971,000 ha. Emissions reductions:
5 MtCO2e per year. Project activities: Forest management, wildlife protection, local
economic development, capacity building, land use planning, habitat conservation, carbon
offset sales. Co-benefits: Water resource protection, food security, financial growth.
Partners: indigenous groups, government agencies, The Nature Conservancy and other
international NGOs, local and global businesses. Description: Logging, mining and the
rapidly growing oil palm industry are killing off the forests of Indonesia faster than
anywhere else on earth. The destruction of these forests produces 80 percent of
Indonesia’s carbon emissions, placing it among the world’s top emitters of climate
changing greenhouse gases, alongside. the United States and China.
• GTZ and Global Eco-Rescue GER: Balikpapan/Malinau District: (economic level, profit
agreement). GER has already expended 89,000 Euros for the preparation of a proposal
for the Malinau forest (89,000 ha). REDD will be implemented in Malinau (pilot project). At
least three districts are needed for the REDD research.
• Fauna & Flora International FFI (Frank Momberg). Aceh and West Kalimantan. Funded
also by USAid (not definitive). “Fauna and Flora International and Australia’s Macquarie
Group have signed a deal to invest in six Redd projects globally, three of them in
Indonesia. Two are in West Kalimantan, on Borneo island, for which memorandums of
understanding (MOUs) have been signed with the local government and the third is in
Papua province on New Guinea island. The other three projects are in Cambodia, Liberia
and Ecuador.” (conservation)
• WWF: Heart of Borneo: Network Initiative (SFM, freshwater, biodiversity, strategies for
adaptation. It has a co-operation with the Ministry of Forestry Indonesia (Directorate
General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation). Surin Suksuwan WWF assumes
that no strategies have been drawn up yet (conservation;
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/asia_pacific/our_solutions/borneo_fores
ts/).
• WWF and Tropenbos: Forest partnership: from Kalimantan districts to the global market
place (http://www.asiaforests.org/files/_ref/about/activities/workplan/wp_kalimantan.htm.
Time frame: 2 years (July 2004 – June 2006) with possible extension of 3 years (July
2006 – June 2009).
• Center for Tropical Forest Research PPHT and JICA (Japan International Cooperation
Agency, comparable to GTZ-Germany). Aboveground biomass and carbon stock in
Acacia plantations in East Kalimantan. JICA will use the ALOS PALSAR-Satellite System.
• JICA: Bornean Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conservation BBEC (long running, focus on
Sabah). Phase II from October 2007 through September 2012. Aims to support the
implementation of the Sabah Biodiversity Enactment 20001 in order to achieve a balance
between development and conservation by linking conservation activities and decisionmaking
process. (http://www.bbec.sabah.gov.my/index.asp).
• Forest Based Carbon FBC Network Initiative: Input to the Kyoto Protocol, aim for REDDpilot
projects, still being developed, multi country effort, Ivy Wong (iwong@wwf.org.my).
• Winrock International (will start in March): Carbon stock identification: Oil palm,
community areas. Winrock International, Sandra Brown (East Kalimantan).
• BAKOSURTANAL. There already exists a partnership of Bakosurtanal within the project
“Forest Degradation and Vegetation Mapping in East Kalimantan” (including Sabah) by
Dr. Kitayama and Dr. Tay (since last year?). The project “Land cover change in South
Kalimantan” by Bakosurtanal starts now (three years by 25,000 $/year). It is expected to
be extended.
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