Overview
The main underlying cause of deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia is the drive for economic development.
Indonesia is party to many International agreements aiming to mitigate climate change and improve forest governance.
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNFF
United Nations Environment Program
FLEGT
Forest Law Enforcement, Governance & Trade
CITES
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
Indonesian forests are expected to play an important role, particularly in climate change mitigation by contributing 38% to the conditional 41% emissions reduction target of Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments.
Through regeneration of terrestrial NC, development of new globally accepted, VERRA Carbon Standard (VCS) methodologies, tech derived carbon credits, Indonesian Jurisdictional & Nested REDDS+ (JNR) carbon credits and innovative Natural Capital Credits (ready for market test), NewCo can monetise the carbon sinks under its jurisdiction, thereafter West Kalimantan’s carbon sink, and imminently develop and introduce to market, Natural Capital Credits (NCC’s).
The credits generated by regeneration and conservation activities can be purchased by off-takers, both corporate and Government, domestically and offshore. Capital raised from the sale of credits to be re-invested into the Indonesian economy via the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
“Natural Capital” is defined as the world's stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water, carbon, all living things and the places of cultural significance to people. It is from this natural capital that humans derive a wide range of services, often called ecosystem services, that make human life possible and fulfilling
Building a Platform and Economic Model to Actualize the Value of Natural Capital to Incentivize Preservation and Conservation over Exploitation of Indigenous Culture their Natural Capital Assets and the Natural Capital Assets of Indonesia.
THE VISION
“Placing Indonesia and its threatened Natural Capital, into a Global Economic Perspective”.
The Indonesia Government is in a position whereby it can protect and conserve its remaining reserves of Natural Capital (NC) and carbon assets with the expressed purpose of developing a perpetual asset. This enables Indonesia to partner with global funders, carbon project managers, corporations, and companies to develop open and transparent preservation, conservation and regenerative on ground intervention strategies based on economic models and platforms that accurately and confidently calculate a market derived financial value for Carbon and Non-Carbon components of Natural Capital (NC) to ensure that, at a steady state, conservation of NC is better business than exploitation.
The core and guiding principal of conservation of Indonesia’s tropical rainforest is the principle that Natural Capital is of foundational importance to the long-term sustainability of life on our planet. Its importance ranks equal to, if not higher, than any other social or economic challenge societies currently face. Without sustaining the core integrity (amount and quality) of biodiversity, air, “Water”, “Carbon” and “Soil” at regional scales, societies will experience profound hardship and will ultimately collapse. The world’s history is full of examples of these unlearned lessons.
During the past two centuries, the global loss of Natural Capital has been well documented, as has its global consequences (climate change, shift in “Rainfall” patterns, habitat loss, “Sterilization, Erosion Loss of Fertile Soils”, and wide-scale reductions in quality and quantity of biodiversity, “Water”, air, and organic carbon).
These unfavourable outcomes are the unintended consequences of governance and policy architecture, but distilled to its basic structure, they are the result of economic equations that historically externalized the role of Natural Capital in decision making.
Because of this omission, economic and policy decisions Naturally tend toward short-term economic benefits, because the long-term costs to Natural Capital never enter decision-makers' discussion. This economic governance imbalance has led to exponential increases in human populations, food production, built infrastructure, and economic wealth, with all the benefits those bring, but has been at the expense of Natural Capital (NC), whose degrading performance can now be readily measured at local, regional, and global scales.
Image: Ecosystem Sevices
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