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

• Australia/CIFOR. Research partnership on reducing emissions from deforestation. A
research partnership of up to $3 million to help meet the need for further research on
policy and technical issues associated with reducing emissions from deforestation (from
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/international/publications/fs-ifci.html).
• FFI and Macquarie Group. 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.
• See also Indonesian Forest and Climate Change Program (IFCCP).
• The Biocarbon-Network is active in Malaysia but they state “forest rich and stable forest
cover countries like Malaysia can’t reduce deforestation rates much further due to heavy
investments in forest conservation over the decades.”
• Conservation of Biodiversity Project (CBIOD): Conservation of Biological Diversity through
Improved Forest Planning Tools Project in Malaysia.
Completed projects:
• SFMP (GTZ), already finished (five years ago)
• There was a project about biomass of Eucalyptus deghipta and primary forest which was
Dadis PhD-Thesis in Göttingen. Funded by the GTZ but finished long time ago
• A GTZ project in South Sumatra called South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project
SSFFMP has been closed and get new injection from BMZ for REDD project in same
location. (30,000 to 40,000 ha)
• “Sabah/Sarawak Highlands Study”. Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister’s
Department (project ended about two years ago; report available)
• GTZ and the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry ICRAF. Nunukan: CARE-
Project from Canada: Assessment of carbon stocks in crops at Nunukan near Malinau
(already finished). It was ongoing still under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
instead of REDD
• Projects by Winrock
o GER Indonesia I. Increasing forest conservation values through climate change
actions in Malinau, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Duration: 2007-2008. Funding:
Global Eco Rescue Limited (GER). Budget: $337,670. Division: Forestry & Natural
Resource Management.
o Carbon Storage and Co-Benefit Initiative Project. Expand the quality and availability
of data for a range of carbon-storage projects to assist USAID in reporting the
carbon benefits achieved through its portfolio of forestry projects. Duration: 2003-
2007. Funding: U.S. Agency for International Development. Budget: $906,000.
Division: Ecosystem Services. Countries: Republic of Congo, Mexico, Brazil,
Indonesia.
o Peat Forest Carbon Reduction. Providing data and increased knowledge to aid in
the improvement and focus of conservation efforts in Indonesia. Duration: 2007-
2008. Funding: Shell Canada Energy. Budget: $48,494. Division: Ecosystem
Services.
o Sourcebook for REDD. Developing a user-friendly sourcebook to provide guidance
for carrying out national-level forest carbon inventories and for monitoring and
estimating changes in carbon stocks from deforestation and degradation for use as
a capacity building tool for developing countries. Duration: 2007-2008. Funding: The
Nature Conservancy. Budget: $59,295. Division: Ecosystem Services. Countries:
Global.
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