Forest destruction and deterioration of climate change in Indonesia
Forest is very important for life on earth. Of all ecosystems, the forest is the richest ecosystems - covering only eight percent of this planet's surface and is home to two-thirds of species of plants and land animals. Millions of people depend directly on forests for food, water, medicines and basic materials other.
For them, the forest reflects the culture and way of life. In developing countries, one of the world's poorest billion people depend their livelihood on some forests, and 350 million people who live on the outskirts of forests and livelihoods depend on forests for their safety.
Forests are also important as a regulator of global climate and weather patterns, which are important systems of the environment that supports life on Earth.
Many of world's natural forests have been badly damaged or even disappear altogether. Humans destroy the forest with incredible speed. Region the size of football fields are cut down every two second. Half of lost forest area in the last year 10,000 extinct less than 80 years ago. Most of this forest destruction occurred in the last 30 years.
This results in shrinkage and the extinction of the greatest biodiversity on earth and thus destroy the lives of millions of people who depend on forests. The speed of extinction of species of plants and animals more than a thousand times faster than the time before human existence. Experts say that the Earth is at a major extinction keenam6 point and the extinction rate will increase ten-fold in the year 2007.
Forests and Climate Change
Approximately one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by rumahkaca deforestation, particularly of tropical forests. It does not include the emissions caused by forest destruction from industrial activities such as logging, both legal and illegal.
Forest and soil carbon storage which is large - more than any other mainland ecosystems. Referring to the FAO study, forests store about three hundred billion tons, equivalent to 40 times the amount currently released into the atmosphere every year from fossil fuel burning and cement production.
According to final estimates, Indonesia is the third largest pengemisi gas rumahkaca world after China and the United States. Indonesian higher emission levels are a consequence of the very high rate of deforestation - which reaches almost 2 million hectares per year - especially the destruction of peat forests are rich in carbon.
An estimated two billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the air only from the drying and burning of peat forests in Southeast Asia. This amount is equivalent to eight percent of the global emissions from fossil fuel usage. Ninety percent of CO2 emissions from peatlands in Southeast Asia from Indonesia.
Natural Forest: Cooler Climate
Natural forests play an important role in regulating global climate and global weather patterns, critical environmental systems that support life on earth. Currently, only 20 percent of the world's original natural forest left in the vast territory and intact (intact forest landscape).
Forest fragmentation due to industrial logging, destroy natural forests and increase the vulnerability to drought and fire - are expected to increase in tropical forests as a result of climate change. This resulted in a causal chain of endless forest where degradation makes it more vulnerable to forest fires, thus removing more rumahkaca gas and encourage the acceleration of climate change, resulting in forest fires and increasing fragmentation.
Prevent climate change from reaching dangerous levels means keeping as much as possible in order to increase global temperatures average below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this required emergency measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from two sources rumahkaca largest drastically: the burning of fossil fuel for energy and deforestation. These two sources each contributed two-thirds and one-fifth of the amount of emissions released into the air.
Greenpeace brought the energy revolution and called on world nations to invest in renewable energy and improve energy efficiency. Greenpeace also asked for the seriousness and sincerity to stop forest destruction and the world is asking for validated targets in international agreements, which bind to the country.
Remaining Natural Forests (Paradise Forests): Indonesia
Remaining natural forests of Asia Pacific peninsula, stretching from Southeast Asia, through Indonesia, and on to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. Remaining natural forest is home to various indigenous cultures and a variety of plants and innumerable animals and can not be found elsewhere on this earth.
Indonesia has most of the remaining natural forest areas, consisting of areas of intact forest landscape is vast and secondary forests. An estimated 88.5 million hectares of forest remaining. Although this number seems large, in fact almost half of Indonesia's forests have been destroyed since 1950 when the total forest cover was 162 million ha.
Indonesia is currently experiencing its forests shrinking faster than any other forested countries. Approximately 51 square miles of forests were destroyed each day, or the equivalent of more than 300 football fields per hour area.
Way Out: A Forest Rescue Funding Mechanism
To avoid a snowball achieving climate change we must reduce emissions from industry and stop emissions from deforestation. Termination of deforestation on a global level is essential for all countries on Earth share responsibility in solving the problem of climate change.
Encouraging countries to buy a number of advanced industrial emissions permits that regulated the Kyoto Protocol through an auction would generate the funds needed to stop deforestation. This effort also provides industrial countries developed an efficient way to reduce global emissions by 20 percent.
A funding mechanism for saving forests would help developing countries owners of tropical forests preserve their forests. What is needed now is concrete action in the countries of the world.
What should the Make?
Greenpeace called on the Indonesian Government to immediately implement temporary suspension (moratorium) on all forms of forest conversion, including the logging industry, to assist in braking Indonesia rumahkaca gases emissions, protecting biodiversity and protect the lives of millions of people who depend on forests across Indonesia.
Moratorium on deforestation is a way to stop forest destruction while providing time and space for the development efforts of protected area networks and other areas designated for forest use patterns are responsible and socially just. Forest use based on social justice can be maintained through a process of participatory land use planning to ensure full and respected the rights of indigenous peoples and other forest user communities.
Greenpeace Demands Moratorium:
There is no expansion of plantations in forest areas that have been mapped
No plantations which causes destruction of peatland
No plantations or expansion post-November 2005 which has led to deforestation and degradation in areas of high conservation value
No plantations or expansion is done in the garden on land owned controlled and indigenous peoples and other forest user communities that do not involve the approval process without force
Establish supply chain and separation system that can be traced closed for palm oil from business groups who fail to meet criteria on the
Forest Damage thrusters in Indonesia
A surprising number, about 72 percent of Indonesia intact forest landscape has been lost or badly damaged or industry growth for decades and illegal logging.
Glory forests in Borneo has been passed and become victims of logging done haphazard companies and brokers, timber brokers, leaving intact forest landscape in the highlands and areas difficult to reach. In the province of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia in the east end, the remaining intact forests in the region is still relatively wide. But these forests began to face great pressure as loggers continue to seek new areas. The pressure is also caused by the explosion of the oil palm industry. Approximately 10 million hectares of forests in Papua have been allocated to forest concessions (HPH) and another 1.6 million hectares allocated for Industrial Plantation Forest (HTI). The numbers show most reliable planning the allocation of oil palm plantations reach of 3 million hectares.
World Bank estimates that up to 80 percent of logging in Indonesia is illegal. Although no illegal logging, illegal business in Indonesia is not currently sustainable. In 2006, some 29 million hectares of Indonesian forests have been earmarked for the concession, and another 10 million hectares are planned for conversion to plantation timber.
Forest is very important for life on earth. Of all ecosystems, the forest is the richest ecosystems - covering only eight percent of this planet's surface and is home to two-thirds of species of plants and land animals. Millions of people depend directly on forests for food, water, medicines and basic materials other.
For them, the forest reflects the culture and way of life. In developing countries, one of the world's poorest billion people depend their livelihood on some forests, and 350 million people who live on the outskirts of forests and livelihoods depend on forests for their safety.
Forests are also important as a regulator of global climate and weather patterns, which are important systems of the environment that supports life on Earth.
Many of world's natural forests have been badly damaged or even disappear altogether. Humans destroy the forest with incredible speed. Region the size of football fields are cut down every two second. Half of lost forest area in the last year 10,000 extinct less than 80 years ago. Most of this forest destruction occurred in the last 30 years.
This results in shrinkage and the extinction of the greatest biodiversity on earth and thus destroy the lives of millions of people who depend on forests. The speed of extinction of species of plants and animals more than a thousand times faster than the time before human existence. Experts say that the Earth is at a major extinction keenam6 point and the extinction rate will increase ten-fold in the year 2007.
Forests and Climate Change
Approximately one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by rumahkaca deforestation, particularly of tropical forests. It does not include the emissions caused by forest destruction from industrial activities such as logging, both legal and illegal.
Forest and soil carbon storage which is large - more than any other mainland ecosystems. Referring to the FAO study, forests store about three hundred billion tons, equivalent to 40 times the amount currently released into the atmosphere every year from fossil fuel burning and cement production.
According to final estimates, Indonesia is the third largest pengemisi gas rumahkaca world after China and the United States. Indonesian higher emission levels are a consequence of the very high rate of deforestation - which reaches almost 2 million hectares per year - especially the destruction of peat forests are rich in carbon.
An estimated two billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the air only from the drying and burning of peat forests in Southeast Asia. This amount is equivalent to eight percent of the global emissions from fossil fuel usage. Ninety percent of CO2 emissions from peatlands in Southeast Asia from Indonesia.
Natural Forest: Cooler Climate
Natural forests play an important role in regulating global climate and global weather patterns, critical environmental systems that support life on earth. Currently, only 20 percent of the world's original natural forest left in the vast territory and intact (intact forest landscape).
Forest fragmentation due to industrial logging, destroy natural forests and increase the vulnerability to drought and fire - are expected to increase in tropical forests as a result of climate change. This resulted in a causal chain of endless forest where degradation makes it more vulnerable to forest fires, thus removing more rumahkaca gas and encourage the acceleration of climate change, resulting in forest fires and increasing fragmentation.
Prevent climate change from reaching dangerous levels means keeping as much as possible in order to increase global temperatures average below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this required emergency measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from two sources rumahkaca largest drastically: the burning of fossil fuel for energy and deforestation. These two sources each contributed two-thirds and one-fifth of the amount of emissions released into the air.
Greenpeace brought the energy revolution and called on world nations to invest in renewable energy and improve energy efficiency. Greenpeace also asked for the seriousness and sincerity to stop forest destruction and the world is asking for validated targets in international agreements, which bind to the country.
Remaining Natural Forests (Paradise Forests): Indonesia
Remaining natural forests of Asia Pacific peninsula, stretching from Southeast Asia, through Indonesia, and on to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. Remaining natural forest is home to various indigenous cultures and a variety of plants and innumerable animals and can not be found elsewhere on this earth.
Indonesia has most of the remaining natural forest areas, consisting of areas of intact forest landscape is vast and secondary forests. An estimated 88.5 million hectares of forest remaining. Although this number seems large, in fact almost half of Indonesia's forests have been destroyed since 1950 when the total forest cover was 162 million ha.
Indonesia is currently experiencing its forests shrinking faster than any other forested countries. Approximately 51 square miles of forests were destroyed each day, or the equivalent of more than 300 football fields per hour area.
Way Out: A Forest Rescue Funding Mechanism
To avoid a snowball achieving climate change we must reduce emissions from industry and stop emissions from deforestation. Termination of deforestation on a global level is essential for all countries on Earth share responsibility in solving the problem of climate change.
Encouraging countries to buy a number of advanced industrial emissions permits that regulated the Kyoto Protocol through an auction would generate the funds needed to stop deforestation. This effort also provides industrial countries developed an efficient way to reduce global emissions by 20 percent.
A funding mechanism for saving forests would help developing countries owners of tropical forests preserve their forests. What is needed now is concrete action in the countries of the world.
What should the Make?
Greenpeace called on the Indonesian Government to immediately implement temporary suspension (moratorium) on all forms of forest conversion, including the logging industry, to assist in braking Indonesia rumahkaca gases emissions, protecting biodiversity and protect the lives of millions of people who depend on forests across Indonesia.
Moratorium on deforestation is a way to stop forest destruction while providing time and space for the development efforts of protected area networks and other areas designated for forest use patterns are responsible and socially just. Forest use based on social justice can be maintained through a process of participatory land use planning to ensure full and respected the rights of indigenous peoples and other forest user communities.
Greenpeace Demands Moratorium:
There is no expansion of plantations in forest areas that have been mapped
No plantations which causes destruction of peatland
No plantations or expansion post-November 2005 which has led to deforestation and degradation in areas of high conservation value
No plantations or expansion is done in the garden on land owned controlled and indigenous peoples and other forest user communities that do not involve the approval process without force
Establish supply chain and separation system that can be traced closed for palm oil from business groups who fail to meet criteria on the
Forest Damage thrusters in Indonesia
A surprising number, about 72 percent of Indonesia intact forest landscape has been lost or badly damaged or industry growth for decades and illegal logging.
Glory forests in Borneo has been passed and become victims of logging done haphazard companies and brokers, timber brokers, leaving intact forest landscape in the highlands and areas difficult to reach. In the province of Papua and West Papua, Indonesia in the east end, the remaining intact forests in the region is still relatively wide. But these forests began to face great pressure as loggers continue to seek new areas. The pressure is also caused by the explosion of the oil palm industry. Approximately 10 million hectares of forests in Papua have been allocated to forest concessions (HPH) and another 1.6 million hectares allocated for Industrial Plantation Forest (HTI). The numbers show most reliable planning the allocation of oil palm plantations reach of 3 million hectares.
World Bank estimates that up to 80 percent of logging in Indonesia is illegal. Although no illegal logging, illegal business in Indonesia is not currently sustainable. In 2006, some 29 million hectares of Indonesian forests have been earmarked for the concession, and another 10 million hectares are planned for conversion to plantation timber.
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