The Policy of long-term REDD Implementation as an Alternative Solution on Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Indonesia
This article was made as an assignment of public policy analysis lecture at Master Public Administration faculty of University of Gadja Mada-Jogyakarta-Indonesia. By Emilianus Yakob Sese Tolo I. Introduction Between 8 million and 16 million hectares of tropical forest was destroyed yearly in the 1980s and 1990s, sending from 0.8 billion to 2.4 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Deforestation causes about 20% of global warming, about as much as the United States, the world’s leading emitter. There are many drivers of deforestation, and they vary a great deal by region. Major causes of deforestation include cattle pasture, industrial agriculture (soy, oil palm), and logging of tropical timbers for export, largely in South America, South East Asia and Central Africa. Global greenhouse gas emissions from developed and developing country fossil fuels and tropical deforestation must start to come down in the next decade if warming is to remain below 2°C by 2050. Global warming will ...