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InfoSAWIT, BONN – Dalam kegiatan Side Event Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) bertema “Peatland”di Pavilion Jerman, pada Kamis (20/12/2017) lalu, terdapat kejadian yang sangat menarik, lantaran ada tiga pembicara di forum tersebut yang mengakui kegiatan Indonesia terkait restorasi lahan gambut, sebagai langkah tepat.

Diceritakan, Deputi Konstruksi dan Pemeliharaan Badan Restorasi Gambut (BRG), Alue Dohong, salah satu sesi yang pembicaranya adalah Prof. Hans Joosten (Greifswald University/Greifswald Mire Center), Diana Kopansky (UNEP, Coordinator GPI), dan Dr. Tobias Selatho (Ramsar Convention Secretary). Ketiganya dalam presentasi yang disampaikan justru mengakui keberhasilan Indonesia dalam merestorasi, pengelolaan, dan proteksi lahan gambutnya baik dari segi legal framework maupun aksi-aksi nyata di lapangan.

Coimbatore, Dec 23 United Nations Environment Programme, the leading environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, has discussed the Rally for Rivers, initiated by Isha Foundation here.

The UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim discussed the matter with the Isha Foundation Founder Sadhguru and lauded its success, a foundation release said today.

Latin America and the Caribbean have taken important steps to respond to climate change. Countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia have made important agreements to reduce their carbon emissions. Between 1990 and 2012, deforestation in some countries decreased, such as Brazil and Mexico. Thereby, these countries have reduced the relative contribution of the forestry sector to overall emissions in the region.

Other countries such as Costa Rica, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and Chile are taking advantage of the potential of renewable energy and gradually reducing the contribution of fossil fuels to their energy network.

Coimbatore, Dec 23 (PTI) United Nations Environment Programme, the leading environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, has discussed the Rally for Rivers, initiated by Isha Foundation here.

The UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim discussed the matter with the Isha Foundation Founder Sadhguru and lauded its success, a foundation release said today. Solheim welcomed him by saying, “an Indian leader is here today who has inspired any number of Indians to take care of the great rivers of India.”

InfoSAWIT, BONN – pada Rabu 20/12/2017 lalu pada acara Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), yang digelar di Bonn, Jerman. Untuk pertama kalinya rapat yang dilakukan Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI) Steering Committee (SC) di Bonn, Jerman.

Dalam informasi yang didapat InfoSAWIT, belum lama ini Deputi Konstruksi dan Pemeliharaan Badan Restorasi Gambut (BRG), Alue Dohong mengatakan, untuk saat ini komposisi Steering Committee, Global Peatlands Initiative (Dewan Pengarah, GPI) diisi oleh para peneliti, dari berbagai lembaga penelitian gambut di dunia. Dimana Ketua SC ditempati Tim Christophersen (UNEP), sementara anggota terdiri dari Gerald Schmilewski (president of International Peat Society), Dr. Tina Vahanen (Deputy Director of Forestry Department, FAO), Dr. Alue Dohong (Deputy for Construction, Operation & Maintenance, BRG), Prof. Dr. Hans Joosten (Greifswald University) dan Jonathan Hughes (IUCN).

Coimbatore(PTI): United Nations Environment Programme, the leading environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, has discussed the Rally for Rivers, initiated by Isha Foundation here.

The UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim discussed the matter with the Isha Foundation Founder Sadhguru and lauded its success, a foundation release said today.

United Nations Environment Programme, the leading environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, has discussed the Rally for Rivers, initiated by Isha Foundation here.

The UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim discussed the matter with the Isha Foundation Founder Sadhguru and lauded its success, a foundation release said today.

According to the World Resources Institute (WRI), one-quarter of the world’s land mass has suffered environmental degradation over the past 50 years. The costs have totaled at least $6.3 trillion in lost ecosystem services; on the flip side, there is massive investment potential in repairing all these lands. The challenge, however, is finding ways to make land restoration more enticing for investors.

A report WRI issued earlier this week suggests seven essential steps by which governments and the private sector can find ways to make ecosystems restoration an attractive financial proposition. The results would include more food grown, improved energy efficiency and of course, better air and water quality.

So what is getting in the way of restoring forests and other remediation efforts worldwide?

Attendees at the annual Global Landscape Forum conference in Bonn, Germany, this week sought approaches for implementing “climate-smart” agricultural practices to help keep global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

Some 40 percent of the earth’s surface is used for food production, with 400 million small farmers worldwide, plus industrial agribusiness, so policymakers understand that climate-smart agriculture, practiced broadly, could play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions and helping nations meet their Paris carbon-reduction pledges.

BONN (IDN) – Forest degradation and biodiversity loss carry a very heavy price for climate and people’s livelihoods. Restoring forests matters when it comes to growing resilience to climate variation and securing a healthy environment for future generations. This was the main message delivered by experts and community leaders who met in Bonn (December 19-20, 2017) to discuss a more sustainable path to conservation.

“We should stop seeing indigenous peoples, natural resources and forests as a problem. We could see them as a solution,” said Robert Nasi, director general of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) which hosted the Global Landscapes Forum, a large science-based platform on sustainable land use.