The government has finally come up with a detailed strategy on how to turn the forestry and land-use sector into a carbon sink by 2030.

The strategy to achieve the target is detailed in a ministerial decree issued by Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar in late February, seven months after Indonesia updated its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat.

Forestry is the nation's largest source of emissions, at nearly 925,000 gigagrams of carbon dioxide equivalent (Gg CO2e) in 2019 and a carbon sink is when a forest absorbs more carbon than it releases.

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courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil (The Jakarta Post)

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