OVERVIEW

The Tropical Forest Power Collaboration (Indonesia, Brazil, Congo Forest Power for Climate Action) is an initiative announced by H.E. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment and Forestry for the Republic of Indonesia; H.E. Eve Bazaiba Masudi, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Democratic Republic of Congo; and H.E. Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, Minister of the Environment of Brazil ahead of COP26 in Glasgow.

The collaboration between Indonesia, Brazil and Congo offers opportunity for lessons and knowledge exchange to tackle deforestation and climate change and for Indonesia to share its success stories. Potential areas for cooperation between the forest nations would include, reduced deforestation, forest, and land fire control management, social forestry and community-based forest management, climate fund management, sustainable land administration, biodiversity and bioprospection, and mangrove rehabilitation and conservation.

The “Signing Joint Statement on Tropical Forest Partnership between Indonesia, Brazil and Congo (IBC)” ceremony was held around the G20 Bali Summit in November 2022. The partnership will see the world’s three largest carbon-sink countries working together to negotiate a new sustainable payment mechanism for preserving the tropical rainforest, protecting million species of plants and animals as well as combating climate change. The collaboration of the three countries is open to other tropical forest countries and welcomes temperate forest countries as well. (Source: https://www.menlhk.go.id/site/single_post/4505)

In a powerful keynote remarks made by H.E. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia at the 2022 Tri Hita Karana Forum, an official side event of the G20 Bali Summit, she said, “…. We are now not just pursuing ambition but also implementation with international support and collaboration with developed and developing countries. All of us must be part of the solution.” She added, “Just this month, Indonesia became the first country in the East Asia Pacific Region to receive an advance payment of US$20.9 million under the Emissions Reduction Payment Agreement between the Government of Indonesia and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the East Kalimantan province… but more than just financial matters, we have the experiences and gain technical know-how to be dealing with the complexities of field and landscape management.”

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