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CIFOR Media Coverage 2007
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- The Star - 30 December 2007
Title: Paying the green bill
Trees are being felled at an alarming rate, even as delegates from the 190 countries attending the conference were nitpicking on the words that went into the draft of the Bali Roadmap. Deforestation, according to the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is contributing some 20% of carbon emissions – or 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 – in the atmosphere. The world, says a Centre for International Forestry Research report released at the same Bali conference, is losing 13 million hectares of forests each year.
- AFP- 28 December 2007
Title: Money on trees
Swathes of peatland are being cleared to make way for pulp and paper plantations, and the booming palm oil industry. But Indonesia is slowly waking up to the hidden cost of releasing the huge stores of carbon kept in peatland, said Daniel Mudiyarso, an expert at Indonesia's Centre for International Forestry Research. "We used to hear the term 'marginal land' for this kind of ecosystem, but our awareness (of its importance) is increasing," Mudiyarso said.
- The Age - 28 December 2007
Title: Call for more trees to stop landslides
But Greg Clough from the Jakarta-based Centre for International Forestry Research said the scientific community was divided on the question of whether deforestation leads to floods that cause landslides. "There is no simple explanation," Mr Clough said. "Blaming upland farmers for massive downstream flooding can cause unnecessary suffering through policies that restrict their livelihoods." At the scene of the landslide in Central Java, local officials insisted that deforestation was not to blame.
- Jakarta Post - 23 December 2007
Title : Ecologist helps people through environment
For ecologist Elizabeth Linda Yuliani, the rich ecosystem of Lake Sentarum National Park in West Kalimantan is highly enjoyable because the surrounding provides breathtaking views to explore. As visitors to Lake Sentarum, Linda and her fellow researchers stayed on a houseboat, called motor bandong by locals. Living on a houseboat, Linda could observe eagles flying, orangutans and other wildlife. The researchers also observed and interacted with the local people, many of who made a living by fishing. Residents generally started their daily activities at 4 a.m., when they went to the lake for fish.
- Canberra Times - 17 December 2007
Title: By signing Kyoto Protocol, Rudd has set a binding target
Marilyn Shepherd, Kensington, SA Climate alternative Noting that Kyoto failed to include the quarter of emissions from deforestation in its controls, Sven Wunder and Frances Seymour reported that at Bali and beyond, fixing this is high on the UN agenda ("Seeing REDD to save the forests and the planet", December 14, p23). Apparently it's difficult to come up with effective mechanisms to prevent forest destruction. Those developing nations just don't seem to value their carbon sinks like we do.
- Le Figaro- 17 December 2007
Title: Les forêts vont participer à la lutte contre le réchauffement
Mais Frances Seymour, directeur du Centre de recherche international sur les forêts, ne cache pas ses craintes de voir ce dispositif «miné par la corruption et que ses bénéfices n’aillent pas aux indigènes mais aux multinationales qui gagneront de l’argent en plantant des forêts.
- Canberra Times - 17 December 2007
Title : By signing Kyoto Protocol, Rudd has set a binding targetMarilyn Shepherd, Kensington, SA
Climate alternative Noting that Kyoto failed to include the quarter of emissions from deforestation in its controls, Sven Wunder and Frances Seymour reported that at Bali and beyond, fixing this is high on the UN agenda ("Seeing REDD to save the forests and the planet", December 14, p23). Apparently it's difficult to come up with effective mechanisms to prevent forest destruction. Those developing nations just don't seem to value their carbon sinks like we do. But where are the West's trees? Well, we removed them hundreds of years ago. Now we want developing countries to do what we say, not what we did, because we value their forests more highly than their agriculture. So, we should keep buying their forests and paying them to not destroy them. But as Wunder and Seymour noted, that isn't going well.
- Life Science Weekly- 17 December 2007
Title: Report finds deforestation offers very little money compared to potential financial benefits
Deforestation in tropical countries is often driven by the perverse economic reality that forests are worth more dead than alive. But a new study by an international consortium of researchers has found that the emerging market for carbon credits has the potential to radically alter that equation. The study was conducted by the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), four of the15 centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and their national partners.
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- International Herald Tribune - 15 December 2007
Title: Evidence of progress emerges at Bali talks
Environmentalists said the plan to protect forests was a good start, but some had reservations about its implementation. Frances Seymour, director for the Center for International Forestry Research, a nonprofit U.S. group, voiced concern that the system was vulnerable to corruption and could be undermined by a growing demand for biofuels. Global demand for palm oil, a popular biofuel, has increased sharply in recent years and has led to the widespread clearing of tropical forests to make way for palm plantations.
- International Herald Tribune - 14 December 2007
Title: Rainforest protection plan takes shape
Environmentalists said the plan to protect forests was a good start, but some had reservations about its implementation. Frances Seymour, director for the Center for International Forestry Research, a nonprofit U.S. group, voiced concern that the system was vulnerable to corruption and could be undermined by a growing demand for biofuels. Global demand for palm oil, a popular biofuel, has increased sharply in recent years and has led to the widespread clearing of tropical forests to make way for palm plantations.
- Reuters - 14 December 2007
Title: AFRICA: Tackling deforestation is critical
Deforestation is responsible for 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon emissions every year, amounting to one-fifth of the global total, and to more than the combined total contributed by the world's energy-intensive transport sectors, according to the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Similar version of the article also appeared in UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) and All Africa com.
- Christian Science Monitor - 14 December 2007
Title: In Bali, new incentive for developing nations to curb emissions
The bottom line: Developing countries could pocket from $2.3 billion to $23 billion a year from avoiding deforestation under REDD, according to Frances Seymour, director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The range reflects different assumptions about the price of carbon on international markets and on the expanse of forest involved. And as talks on crafting a framework for negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol wind down here, REDD looks as though it will be incorporated into that framework, analysts here say.
- Strait Times - 14 December 2007
Title: Reward plan to save forests may just end haze but ASEAN cautions against let-up in bid to fight haze from Indonesia
Cifor's Ms Seymour, however, felt that Asean would do the right thing. Redd would take some years to kick off,' she said. 'It is in Asean's interests not to wait and to solve the haze issue quickly, as every haze-affected day amounts to some economic losses.'
- Afrol News - African News Agency - 14 December 2007
Title: Bali: hay que detener la deforestación de África
La deforestación es responsable de la emisión anual de 1.600 millones de toneladas de carbono, lo que representa a nivel mundial una quinta parte de la cantidad total, y dos veces más que la aportación de la combinación total de los sectores mundiales de la energía y el transporte intensivo, según el Centro Internacional para la Investigación Forestal (CIFOR, en sus siglas inglesas) con sede en Indonesia.
- Associated Press - 13 December 2007
Title: UN climate conference expected to embrace forest protection as part of climate change plan.
"If you agree with Al Gore that we have a climate emergency, you can't afford to have 20 percent of the problem off the table. We have to do it," said Frances J. Seymour, the director general of the Center for International Forest Research in Indonesia, referring to the Nobel prize-winning former U.S. vice president. "There are so many other reasons to conserve forest from sustainable development forest."
Similar articles appeared in International Herald Tribune, Yahoo! News International, Singapore Malaysia, Economic Times India, MSN NBC, Mainichi Daily News
- Belga News Agency - 13 December 2007
Title: Après Bali, la forêt aura un prix. >
"C'est une excellente nouvelle pour la deuxième période d'engagement du protocole de Kyoto en 2012. Mais la protection de la forêt est aussi indispensable à la biodiversité, à la vie des populations qui en dépendent et à leur intégrité culturelle" souligne Frances Seymour, directrice du Centre international pour la recherche forestière, basée en Indonésie. "Les forêts ont obtenu ici des incitations financières et l'attention politique. Le problème dans ce scénario est de veiller au respect des droits des communautés indigènes: qui va les rémunérer si elles veulent protéger leur forêt mais que leurs droits de propriété ne sont pas reconnus", demande-t-elle.
Similar version of the article also appeared in AFP, L'Expansion and La Depeche.
- Financial Times 12 December 2007
Title: Deal close on reward scheme to save forests
However, Frances Seymour, director-general of the Centre for International Forestry Research, warned: "For these payment schemes to be effective, there need to be significant governance reforms going all the way from establishing clear property rights to new institutional mechanisms for channelling payments so they are not siphoned off but make their way to the pockets of the right people."
- Xinhua News Agency (Spanish) - 12 December 2007
Title: Organización de investigación forestal pide abordar la deforestación con incentivos financieros.
La directora del Centro, Frances Seymour, subrayó el potencial de las discusiones en Bali para luchar contra la deforestación mediante la compensación de los administradores de tierras por su protección de la capacidad de almacenar dióxido de carbono de los bosques mediante un mercado global multimillonario de "créditos de carbono". "Estos pagos a los individuales tienen el potencial de cambiar los incentivos financieros que favorecen la destrucción de los bosques (como pasa ahora) por esos que impulsan la conservación", apuntó.
- Voice of America (VOA) - 12 December 2007
Title: Scientists Fear Amazon May Face Early Destruction
Christiane Ehringhaus, who studies the Amazon for the Center for International Forestry Research, says she would not be surprised if the Amazon's future is bleaker than previously expected. She says the cycle of drying may have contributed to, and been intensified by, widespread forest fires in 2005. "You saw fires in areas of the Amazon that hadn't been detected even as flammable in previous models. So you saw forest fires that are undetectable from space that do tremendous damage and dry up the forest for subsequent fires," said Ehringhaus.
- Environment News Service (ENS) - 11 December 2007
Title: World Bank Fund Will Pay to Leave Forests Standing
On Saturday, meetings on forest conservation took center stage at the first Forest Day ever held at a UN climate meeting. The parallel event was hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research, CIFOR. The Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Yvo de Boer, was presented with a set of key recommendations on the role of forests in combating climate change for consideration by the government ministers participating in the high-level segment of the conference which begins Wednesday. De Boer welcomed the contribution that the many world-leading experts and forest organizations attending Forest Day could make in influencing forest and climate policy at the global level
- Neues-deutschland - 10 December 2007
Title: Bäume sollen Geld bringen. Klimabürokraten wollen Waldvernichtung mit finanziellem Anreiz bekämpfen.
In Indonesien, Gastgeberland der Klimakonferenz, werden jährlich 1,9 Millionen Hektar Regenwald abgeholzt. »Das ist weltweit eine der Hauptquellen für Kohlendioxidemissionen«, heißt es in dem auf Bali veröffentlichten Bericht des Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Ursache ist die weltweit steigende Nachfrage nach Palmöl und Chinas Bedarf an Zellstoff für die Papierproduktion. In Zentralafrika sind der Bedarf an Feuerholz und die Holzkohleproduktion treibende Kraft für den Verlust von jährlich vier Millionen Hektar Wald.
- El Pais - 10 December 2007<
Title: Los países tropicales exigen ayudas a la ONU para no talar sus bosques. La deforestación causa el 20% de las emisiones de efecto invernadero
Daniel Murdiyarso es un climatólogo indonesio del Centro Internacional para la Investigación Forestal (CIFOR). Está especializado en adaptación de los bosques tropicales al cambio climático. "La deforestación es la segunda causa de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Cada año, la pérdida de bosques supone la emisión a la atmósfera de 6.000 millones de toneladas de CO2. Sólo conseguir reducir a la mitad esa cantidad sería ya un gran éxito y tendría un gran impacto", explica en Bali a este diario. Para eso hacen falta entre 5.000 y 10.000 millones de dólares al año, añade.
- Jakarta Post - 9 December 2007
Title: REDD scheme given a morale boost
Separately, the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) said there would be ample opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emission should the financial incentives be sufficient to flip the political and economic realities that caused deforestation. “After being left out of the Kyoto agreement, it is promising that deforestation is commanding center-stage at the Bali conference,” CIFOR’s director general, Frances Seymour said in the statement. “But the danger is that policy makers will fail to appreciate that forest destruction is caused by an incredibly wide variety of political and economic factors that originate outside the forestry sector and require different solution.”
- Afriquenligne - 9 December 2007
Title: Forest preservation plan debated at climate talks
Frances Seymour, Director General for the Indonesia-based Center for International Forest Research, is concerned a premature REDD agreement could do more harm than good. "Because in many forested countries, land tenure rights to forest lands and resources are either unclear or contested or both. And you can imagine that if a potential new income stream is available for those who can present themselves as owners of the forest, this could create conflict and create conditions under which some of the world's poorest people, who are people who live in forests, could be pushed aside," said Seymour.
- Der Tagesspiegel - 9 December 2007
Title: Waldrodung – ein Klimakiller
Brasilien, das Land mit dem größten Regenwald, hält nichts von Waldschutzzertifikaten. Die Südamerikaner hätten lieber einen Redd-Fonds, einen Topf mit Geld für den Waldschutz. Auf Bali wird gerade um den richtigen Weg gestritten. Der Finanzbedarf ist noch offen. „Die Reduktion der Entwaldung wird jährlich zwischen 2,3 und 23 Milliarden US-Dollar kosten“, schätzt Frances Seymour vom Waldforschungszentrum Cifor.
- Jakarta Post - 9 December 2007
Title: Young leaders initiate regional network on climate issue
The Asian Young Leaders Climate Forum (AYLCF) in Bogor ended Friday with the 35 participants from 14 countries producing an action plan and a shared, strong commitment toward building a network in the Asia-Pacific to address climate change issues. The communique is the result of a five-day workshop facilitated by the British Council, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). The workshop, which ran from Dec. 5-8 in Bogor, was attended by representatives from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
The article also appeared in Xinhua News, China Daily, Central News Agency of Taiwan and Taiwan Headlines with variety titles.
- AFP - 8 December 2007
Title: Débats épineux à Bali sur la "déforestation évitée"
D'autres experts évoquent des risques de triche, par exemple en touchant de l'argent pour une zone non coupée tout en défrichant ailleurs, ou bien en brûlant une parcelle une fois l'argent versé.
Frances Seymour, directrice du Cifor, rappelle que "dans beaucoup de forêts du monde", les titres de propriété "ne sont pas clairs". "Lancer des dispositifs de paiement trop rapidement en l'absence d'accord sur à qui appartient la forêt pourrait avoir pour conséquence non souhaitée que des populations parmi les plus pauvres du monde soient écartées par des acteurs puissants cherchant à recevoir ces paiements", souligne-t-elle.
Similar articles published in AFP Spanish and Portugese language, La Croix newspaper, Yahoo! Noticias Spain, Brasil, Canada, El Litoral newspaper, Terra Daily.
- YLE Radio - 8 December 2007
Title: Tutkijat vaativat metsien säilyttämistä (Researchers want to save the forests)
Kokonaan Kioton sopimuksen ulkopuolella on trooppisten metsien tai yleensä metsien häviämisestä aiheutuvien päästöjen kuriin saattaminen. Tähän saakka ilmastosopimus on huolehtinut vain uusien metsien istuttamisesta, mutta ei metsien hävityksen vähentämisestä. Tästä on nyt kysymys, sanoo tohtori Markku Kanninen. Kanninen on Indonesiassa sijaitsevan kansainvälisen metsäntutkimuskeskuksen CIFORin kestävän metsäkäyttöohjelman johtaja. Kaakois-Aasian lisäksi suuria sademetsäalueita on Afrikassa ja Etelä-Amerikassa Amazonin alueella. Metsää hakataan paitsi puun takia, myös laitumien ja viljelymaan levitessä. Vain energiantuotanto on metsän tuhoutumista pahempi yksittäinen ilmastonmuutoksen aiheuttaja.
- Frankfurter Rundschau - 8 December 2007
Title: Regenwald als Klima-Retter: Forstschutz soll ins neue Abkommen
In Bali wird gerade über den richtigen Weg gestritten. Der Finanzbedarf ist auch noch offen. "Eine verminderte Entwaldung wird jährlich zwischen 2,3 und 23 Milliarden US-Dollar kosten", schätzt Frances Seymour vom Waldforschungs-Zentrum Cifor. Die Redd-Initiative hat hohe Erwartungen in Regenwald-Staaten geweckt. Sie rechnen mit Milliarden und hätten sie am liebsten sofort. Doch so einfach sei das nicht, meint Deutschlands Verhandlungschefin Nicole Wilke: "Wir können zum Beispiel nicht Geld für den Schutz eines Gebietes geben, während ein paar Kilometer weiter munter abgeholzt wird."
- VOA News - 8 December 2007
Title: Forest Preservation Plan Debated at Climate Talks
Frances Seymour, Director General for the Indonesia-based Center for International Forest Research, is concerned a premature REDD agreement could do more harm than good. "Because in many forested countries, land tenure rights to forest lands and resources are either unclear or contested or both. And you can imagine that if a potential new income stream is available for those who can present themselves as owners of the forest, this could create conflict and create conditions under which some of the world's poorest people, who are people who live in forests, could be pushed aside," said Seymour.
- Suara Karya - 8 December 2007
Title: Konferensi Iklim Dukungan Negara Maju Belum Konkret
Studi baru oleh Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) mengingatkan bahwa dukungan baru terhadap REDD terancam oleh kegagalan dalam pergulatan soal akar penyebab deforestasi. "Adalah berbahaya jika para pembuat keputusan gagal melihat bahwa pengrusakan hutan disebabkan oleh masalah politis, ekonomi, dan sejenisnya, yang berasal dari luar sektor kehutanan," kata Dirjen CIFOR Frances Seymour di sela UNFCCC di Nusa Dua, Jumat.
Artinya, kata dia, masing-masing kawasan hutan membutuhkan solusi berbeda. Dia mencontohkan, untuk menghentikan penggundulan hutan di Indonesia berbeda dengan deforestasi di Amazon atau degradasi hutan di sub-sahara Afrika.
- SciDev.Net - 7 December 2007
Title: Plans to curb deforestation need more consideration
Incentives to tackle deforestation and forest degradation can play a key role in combating climate change and requires a strong policy framework that is fair to poor communities, says a new report.
The report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), was launched today (7 December) at the UN climate meeting in Bali, Indonesia. It states that "an appropriate policy framework to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) would help prioritise areas with high deforestation risk and high carbon content, while ensuring the sustained well-being of forest-dependent communities".
- Environmental News Network - 7 December 2007
Title: New report on deforestation reveals problems of forest carbon payment schemes
A new study by one of the world’s leading forestry research institutes warns that the new push to “reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation,” known by the acronym REDD, is imperiled by a routine failure to grasp the root causes of deforestation. The study sought to link what is known about the underlying causes of the loss of 13 million hectares of forest each year to the promise—and potential pitfalls—of REDD schemes. Based on more than a decade of in-depth research on the forces driving deforestation worldwide, the report by researchers at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) found that there is ample opportunity to reduce carbon emissions if financial incentives will be sufficient enough to flip political and economic realities that cause deforestation.
- The Daily Green - 7 December 2007
Title: Corals and Forests: Climate Fix or Consensus Foe? Friday's Roundup of News from the U.N. Global Warming Summit in Bali
Friday, the Center for International Forestry Research recommended creating a multibillion-dollar carbon trading program that would include payments to forest owners who leave forests intact, so they can continue absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. But, the organization warned, governments might use those payments to exploit forest dwellers if the "Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" (a.k.a. "Reducing Emission from Deforestation in Developing Countries," or REDD) program is not constructed carefully.
- LKBN Antara - 7 December 2007
Title: CIFOR: Perlu Kebijakan Berbeda Terhadap Insentif REDD
Studi baru oleh "Center for International Forestry Research" (CIFOR) mengingatkan bahwa dukungan baru terhadap REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation) terancam oleh kegagalan dalam pergulatan soal akar penyebab deforestasi. "Adalah berbahaya jika para pembuat keputusan gagal melihat bahwa pengrusakan hutan disebabkan oleh masalah politis, ekonomi dan sejenisnya yang berasal dari luar sektor kehutanan," kata Dirjen CIFOR Frances Seymour, pada Konferensi Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa/PBB tentang Perubahan Iklim (UNFCCC) di Nusa Dua, Bali, Jumat.
- The Meghalaya Guardian, Nepal - 7 December 2007
Title: Workshop held on livelihood improvement from forestry
A two-day workshop on “livelihoods improvement from forestry in Meghalaya” is aimed at bringing together a wide range of stakeholders in the movement for sustainable development, namely policy makers, forest managers, legal experts, development practitioners, representatives from forest based industries and associations, traditional institutions and researchers to support discussions and exchange ideas on the critical factors regarding forests and livelihoods improvement.
- Sinar Harapan - 7 December 2007
Title: Skema REDD Dinilai Tidak Efektif
Program Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) dianggap tak efektif bila pemerintah tak mampu memberikan jaminan dana tersebut sampai pada kalangan kelas bawah. Demikian satu kesimpulan yang didapatkan pada peluncuran Buku Laporan Pusat Penelitian Kehutanan Internasional (CIFOR), berjudul “Apakah Hutan Tumbuh untuk Uang?”, Jumat (7/12).
- Daily Telegraph - 7 December 2007
Title: Deforestation needs local answers
CIFOR's director general, Frances Seymour, said: "After being left out of the Kyoto agreement, it's promising that deforestation is commanding centre-stage at the Bali climate talks."But the danger is that policy-makers will fail to appreciate that forest destruction is caused by an incredibly wide variety of political, economic, and other factors that originate outside the forestry sector, and require different solutions." She said stopping deforestation in Indonesia caused by overcapacity in the wood processing industry was a completely different challenge from dealing with deforestation stemming from a road project in the Amazon or forest degradation caused by charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa.
- SciDev.Net - 3 December 2007
Title: Forest loss 'yields meagre financial benefits'
Converting Indonesian forests and peatlands for various agricultural land uses has released huge amounts of greenhouse gases with little economic benefit, according to a new report. The report, by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Indonesian partners, was released last week (21 November). Researchers found that less than two per cent of the 400 megatonnes that the provinces emit per year, largely through 'slash and burn' land clearing, yield a clear economic benefit of more than US$15 per tonne of carbon dioxide.
Similar articles also published in Environmental News Network and Forest Watch
- Tempo Magazine - 3 December 2007
Title: In Memoriam: Zamrud Khatulistiwa
Jumlah lahan gambut di Indonesia mencapai 22,5 juta hektare. Riau menyimpan hampir separuhnya. Sisanya tersebar di Aceh, Jambi, Kalimantan, dan Papua. Greenpeace menduga hampir separuhnya sudah rusak. Studi lembaga peneliti kehutanan internasional Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) menyatakan, dari konversi lahan gambut saja, Indonesia melepas 1.100 juta ton karbon dioksida (CO2) ke udara per tahun. ”Ini sama dengan seluruh emisi yang dikeluarkan Jerman,” kata Profesor Daniel Murdiyarso, ahli klimatologi Institut Pertanian Bogor.
- Tempo Magazine - 3 December 2007
Title: Biography Prof. Dr. Daniel Murdiyarso: Hutan Indonesia Tidak Dijual
Daniel adalah anggota Panel Antarpemerintah untuk Perubahan Iklim (IPCC) bentukan PBB sejak 1998. Sekitar 3.000 ilmuwan dunia menjadi anggota lembaga ini. Mereka menelisik pengaruh pemanasan global terhadap planet Bumi. Oktober lalu, IPCC, bersama bekas Wakil Presiden Al Gore, meraih penghargaan Nobel Perdamaian 2007. Selain meneliti, Daniel adalah Guru Besar Ilmu Atmosfer di Jurusan Geofisika dan Meteorologi, Institut Pertanian Bogor.
- International Herald Tribune - 2 December 2007
Title: World fears for Indonesia's forests
The concept, called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), appears to have widespread global support, not least because deforestation accounts for almost 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, with about half from Indonesia alone. Experts warn, however, that implementation will be difficult and the incentives will have to be considerable. "It's definitely not a silver bullet (and palm oil) is a significant new threat to forests," says Ms Seymour. "A very robust REDD regime will be necessary to counter the profits to be made from this lucrative industry."
Similar story also appeared in Irish Times
- Sydney Morning Herald - 1st December 2007
Title: For peat's sake - stopping the rot in logging industry
The difficulties of changing a culture of corruption and exploitation are immense, but must be faced, says Frances Seymour, the director of the world-leading Centre for International Forestry Research.
Indonesia's massive forests and peatlands make it the place to begin to address deforestation. "If you agree with Al Gore that we are in a climate emergency and you have to do everything you can about it, then forests have to be part of the answer," Seymour says.
- LKBN Antara - 30 November 2007
Title: "Forest Day" Akan Meriahkan Konferensi Perubahan Iklim di Bali
Forest Day" atau "Hari Hutan" akan memeriahkan Konferensi Internasional Perubahan Iklim yang berlangsung 3-14 Desember di Bali, dengan mengambil hari khusus, Sabtu 8 Desember 2007. "Peminatnya sudah sangat banyak," kata Koordinator Tropical Forest and Climate Change untuk Asia Tenggara CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research), Dr Heru Santoso di Bandung, Kamis.
- Taipei Times - 25 November 2007
Title: Carbon dioxide oozes from damaged peatlands
A figure from the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research puts deforestation at around 25 percent of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions. Avoiding emissions from deforestation has so far been left out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which focuses instead on reducing emissions from sources such as industry and transport. Widespread deforestation has made Indonesia the third largest emitter of carbon in the world, the contribution coming most dramatically in the form of near-annual forest fires on islands such as Sumatra and Borneo.
- Mongabay - 22 November 2007
Title: Carbon offset returns beat forest conversion for agriculture in Indonesia
Conversion of forests and peatlands for agriculture in Indonesia has generated little economic benefit while releasing substantial amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, reports a new study from the the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and their Indonesian partners. The study, which looked at carbon emissions and land use changes in three Indonesian provinces covering 16 percent of the country, calculated the economic benefits derived from different types of land use, including oil palm, rubber, coffee and mixed agroforestry.
- AFP - 22 November 2007
Title: Indonesia's forests, a precious resource in climate change fight?
Swathes of peatland are being cleared to make way for pulp and paper plantations, and the booming palm oil industry. But Indonesia is slowly waking up to the hidden cost of releasing the huge stores of carbon kept in peatland, said Daniel Mudiyarso, an expert at Indonesia's Centre for International Forestry Research. "We used to hear the term 'marginal land' for this kind of ecosystem, but our awareness (of its importance) is increasing," Mudiyarso said.
- Jakarta Post - 21 November 2007
Title: Green groups want end to mining in forests
Environmental groups urged the government Tuesday to stop issuing concessions for mining companies at protected forests, to avoid further forest conversions. Separately in Bogor, researchers from the World Agroforestry Center, the Center for International Forestry Research and their Indonesian partners reported the conversion of forests and peatlands had generated very little profit, despite the huge amount of emitted carbon.
- Suara Merdeka - 21 November 2007
Title: 75-80 Persen Bencana Alam Terkait Iklim
Tiga perempat atau 75-80 persen bencana alam di bumi merupakan bencana yang terkait dengan iklim, seperti banjir, badai, penyakit, kekeringan, hingga longsor, kata Peneliti Senior pada Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) Daniel Mudiyarso. "Dari grafik jumlah bencana alam yang tercatat sejak 1900 hingga 2003, bencana yang bersifat `hydro-meteorological` melonjak tajam pada dekade terakhir, jauh dibanding bencana biological yang naik namun sedikit atau bencana geological yang konstan," kata Daniel di depan lebih dari 600 ilmuwan yang menghadiri Kongres Ilmu Pengetahuan (Kipnas) IX di Jakarta, Rabu.
- INQUIRER.net - 20 November 2007
Title: Close-up of the Forestry Outlook in Asia and the Pacific
Frances Seymour of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) pointed out that “for forests to have a future, constituencies for forests need to influence policies and engage institutions outside the forestry sector and beyond the Asia Pacific region. There should be efforts to promote reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, and decentralization of the forest management authority and increased roles for community based management.”
- Reuters - 20 November 2007
Title: Feature - Indonesia pins hopes on forests at Bali meeting
"We're in a canoe heading for the waterfall," Frances Seymour, director-general of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), said. "Current rates of deforestation, whether it is here in Indonesia or anywhere else in the world, are unsustainable and need to be slowed." During the Bali conference, participants will hear a report on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation (RED) -- a new scheme that aims to make emission cuts from forest areas eligible for global carbon trading.
Similar articles also published in ABC News, Strait Times, TV NZ, LKBN Antara and Gulf Times Newspaper with variety taglines.
- The Post (Buea) - 19 November 2007
Title: Cameroon: MINFOF, CIFOR, to Institute Model Forest Governance
The Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, MINFOF, and the Centre for International Forest Research, CIFOR, have resolved to make Model forest a reality in Cameroon. CIFOR began the model forest project in Cameroon in 2003, with the help of the International Model Forest Network, IMFN, which is working towards the sustainable management of forests around the world. According to Chimere Diaw, Director of CIFOR, the concept of model forest is one that regulates the conflicting interests of various stakeholders such that they all make gains within the policy of sustainable forest management.
Similar articles also published in All Africa.com and Quotidien Mutations (French edition).
- Bloomberg - 15 November 2007
Title: Indonesia Says It May Take Until 2014 to End Illegal Logging
Industrial demand for timber in Indonesia is about 60 million cubic meters a year, compared with supply of 12 million cubic meters from plantations and natural forests, according to World Bank data. The country, the world's largest archipelago, ranks behind only Brazil and the Congo basin in the size of its tropical jungles. In 2001, about 83 percent of the 59 million cubic meters of wood consumed in Indonesia came from illegal sources, according to the Bogor, Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research.
- Jakarta Post - 7 November 2007
Title: Frances J. Seymour: World forest conservationist
With her friendly face and familiarity with forest conservation issues, Frances J. Seymour, the director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), immediately inspires confidence and trust. Asked about the effect of forest destruction in Indonesia on the world environment in the form of global warming, Seymour said: "The whole world has been aware of the link between forest fires and global warming for the last few years, and Indonesia has the same status as other countries with vast forests and fairly high rates of deforestation, let alone its possession of around 26 million hectares of peatland.
- Pontianak Post - 31 October 2007
Title: Kerusakan hutan pengaruhi kesehatan manusia
Dampak perubahan cuaca seperti itu, menyakinkan ada hubungan yang kuat antara kesehatan manusia dengan hutan sebagaimana menjadi fokus peneliti pakar CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research). Walaupun demikian, hutan yang memberikan manfaat positif bagi kesehatan. Tutupan hutan dapat mempertahankan kejernihan dan kebersihan pengairan. Ini juga dijelaskan penelitia CIFOR, maupun aktivitis Riak Bumi.
Similar articles also published in Metro Pontianak and Harian Berkat
- International Herald Tribune - 29 October 2007
Title: Planting seeds of biofuel where little else grows
Until recently, Jatropha Curcas, a tall bush with highly toxic fruit and bark, was mainly used as a hedge plant to keep livestock away from crops. But amid soaring prices for traditional biofuel feedstock, including palm oil, the nuts from the perennial bush are now being eyed as a possible sustainable alternative throughout South and Southeast Asia. "It's one of the biofuel crops that offer a genuine hope of producing an environmentally neutral fuel," said Krystof Obidzinski, a research fellow at the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia. "Environmentally it's definitely better than palm oil because you can plant it on dry soil and barren areas and it will do well. But the problem is you need a vast area to produce a substantial amount of oil because the yield of jatropha oil per hectare is far, far, far smaller than the yield from palm oil."
- Cameroon Tribune - 16 October 2007
Title: Forestry and Health Experts in Synergy
An international research centre in Yaounde says the welfare of forest communities in the world's tropical countries can be significantly enhanced by bringing together forestry and health professionals. This is why forestry and health experts on 12 October at the conference hall in Yaounde ended a two-day brainstorming workshop. Organised by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the workshop aimed at bridging the gap between forest managers and health professionals.
- Kompas - 6 October 2007
Title: pengurangan emisi:Skema REDD Selesai Awal November
Peneliti senior CIFOR Daniel Murdiyarso, yang tergabung dalam tim lahan gambut, menyatakan, tim ahli bekerja menyediakan data-data ilmiah. Penghitungan dan analisis harus berdasar data-data yang dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Berdasarkan data historis dan terkini, tim menghitung dan menganalisis kemungkinan laju deforestasi dan degradasi. Akan tetapi, keputusan menekan laju deforestasi atau degradasi merupakan keputusan politik pemerintah. Timnya menghitung luas lahan gambut serta memilah dikonversi atau belum. Analisis data dan fakta akan menghasilkan potensi lahan gambut yang dapat "dijual" sesuai skema REDD. Kerja yang hampir sama diterapkan pada empat lanskap yang lain.
- Mongabay - 4 October 2007
Title: Forests reduce flooding
A 2005 report by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) cited this lack of evidence and argued that flood mitigation efforts though forest preservation could not be justified on economic grounds. Now, a new study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, suggests that forests do impact the occurrence and severity of destructive floods. A prominent researcher is already calling the new work a "landmark study" in support of forest conservation. Analyzing data from 56 developing countries and controlling for differences in rainfall, elevation, soil moisture and degraded areas, researchers from Charles Darwin University in Australia and the National University of Singapore found that a 10 percent increase in deforestation results in a 4-28 percent increase in flood frequency.
- Reuters - 1st October 2007
Title: Deforestation needs to be in next climate pact
But greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nearly 20 percent of the world's total, are not yet eligible for trade because they were excluded from the Kyoto Protocol's first round, which runs out in 2012. "It's huge because preserving and conserving the existing pool will then become very attractive," said Daniel Murdiyarso, senior scientist at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). "Whether by means of a market mechanism or not, including deforestation in the new deal is something Indonesia and every developing country should push for."
- Dagens Næringsliv - 1st October 2007
Title: Motorsagmassakren
Under et tre utenfor kontorene til forskningsinstitusjonen CIFOR på Java sitter den finske klimaforskeren Markku Kannninen og er hoderystende uenig med Stern. For det første mener han slett ikke at det er så billig. For det andre vil det være uhyre komplisert å bremse avskogingen.
I et ekstrem-scenario så plasserer man soldater rundt hele skogen for å holde folk ute. Men det er jo ikke slik vi vil ha det, sier Kanninen. Korrupsjon og svake rettsinstitusjoner i land som Indonesia kompliserer saken. For å opprettholde den heseblesende økonomiske veksten støvsuger Kina Asia for råvarer og skog.
- Environmental News Network -28 September 2007
Title: Billions Committed for Environment at Clinton Global Initiative
The World Bank estimates that 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people who are living in extreme poverty depend on forest resources for some part of their livelihood. With this three-year commitment, CIFOR will spend $6 million to launch Climate Change and Forests Initiative to produce independent and timely analysis of the options for including deforestation into global and national climate policies. A key feature of its research will be a focus on ensuring that the risks of avoided deforestation - known as "reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation" or REDD - are not borne by those least able to afford them.
- Nature Magazine – 27 September 2007
Title: Forests and Floods
Yet this approach is contentious. Most notably, a serious counterargument came from an influential report published in 2005 by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia. The analysis concluded that the evidence that forests reduce flooding is weak, especially for the largest and most devastating floods. The report suggested that retaining or regenerating large forest areas was an economically dubious strategy for developing nations, at least from a flood-reduction perspective.
- Xinhua Financial Network - 24 September 2007
Title: China will fight illegal logging, promote forestry programs – officials
Excess and illegal logging is generally regarded as one of the key drivers behind environmental degradation and destruction of ecosystems, but solutions to the problem face several hurdles, other experts said. 'Conflicting government objectives, the complexity of regulations and the lack of sufficient data are the key problems,' said Frances Seymour, director general at the Center for International Forestry Research.
- Sinar Harapan - 24 September 2007
Title: Menyikapi Laporan IPCC dengan Bijak
Baru-baru ini kita mendengar serangkaian peluncuran laporan Panel Antar-pemerintah tentang Perubahan Iklim (IPCC). Pertama dari Paris di bulan Februari 2007, kedua dari Brusel di bulan April, kemudian dari Bangkok bulan Mei yang lalu. Ketiganya memberi gambaran kelam tentang masa depan planet bumi kita jika kita tidak berbuat sesuatu.
- Brunei Times - 22 September 2007
Title: Brunei forests pharmacies, beauty shops
According to a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) study, prices being paid to collectors of gaharu, such as those in East Kalimantan for high-quality specimens have soared to unprecedented heights, stimulating prices such that gaharu collection has become a high-priced livelihood.
- Kompas - 18 September 2007
Title: Taman Nasional Kutai Dirambah
Balai TNK dan Cifor, lembaga penilitian kehutanan, punya spekulasi bahwa motif di balik perambahan tidak jauh dari alasan ekonomi. Yang klasik ialah masyarakat miskin ingin hidup sejahtera sehingga menebangi kayu untuk dijual. Godwin Limberg, peneliti Cifor, berspekulasi bahwa perambahan adalah bagian skenario besar melenyapkan TNK. Para perambah akan menguasai lahan TNK sehingga Departemen Kehutanan terpaksa enclave. Namun, kawasan enclave nantinya akan dibeli oleh pengusaha batu bara.
- Financial Times - 18 September 2007
Title: Fund faces pressure over pulp mill plan
Criticisms of the project surfaced several years ago, with the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) saying Unifiber did not have a detailed plan to support its claim that the mill would not use natural forests.
* Similar version of the article also published in The Australian under title “Greens target Asian hedge fund.”
- Xinhua - 11 September 2007
Title: Indonesia to bring seven-point agenda to UNFCCC
Indonesia will bring a seven- point agenda for discussion at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it will host in December this year, a spokesman said on Monday. The seven-point agenda deals with adaptation, mitigation, clean development mechanism (CDM), financial mechanism, technology and capacity building, reduced deforestation and post-Kyoto protocol, said Daniel Murdiyarso, the editor of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The time had come for policy makers to pay attention to the problems of adaptation to climate change that had happened to their respective citizens, he said.
* Similar version of the article also published in People’s Daily Online and LKBN Antara wire agency
- Gatra Magazine - 7 September 2007
Title: Bogor Akan Bangun Jalur Khusus Sepeda
Ketua komunitas B2W Ramadaniyah Diawan mengatakan, soal rencana pembangunan jalur khusus sepeda, komunitasnya sudah menyampaikan gagasan tersebut kepada Wali Kota dan mendapat tanggapan positif.
Namun, sebelum jalur khusus sepeda dibangun, menurut dia, maka infrastruktur ruas jalan raya yang ada harus diperbaiki lebih dulu, misalnya pembangunan underpass di Jalan Raya Soleh Iskandar dan pembangunan jalan tol Bogor Ring Road (BRR).
- ABC Radio Australia - 6 September 2007
Title: The media outlook in Indonesia
This week we take a first-hand look at the state of the Indonesian media. The country has experienced some remarkable liberalisation over the last ten years, but what's that meant for Indonesia's media sector? Greg Clough, a Communications specialist from CIFOR joined the discussion.
- Media Indonesia - 4 September 2007
Title: Perbaikan Hutan Harus Berjalan * Kompensasi REDD Diluruskan
Laporan Bank Dunia 2007 menyebutkan Indonesia sebagai negara penyumbang karbon dioksida (C02) ketiga di dunia akibat pembukaan hutan dengan cara dibakar dan pembalakan liar (illegal logging). ''Dengan situasi seperti ini, pertemuan di Bali akan sangat penting artinya dalam menghasilkan mandat yang akan memandu Protokol Kyoto untuk melajukan pengurangan emisi C02 dari deforestasi,'' kata peneliti senior Pusat Riset Kehutanan Internasional (Center for International Forestry Research/CIFOR) Daniel Murdiyaso di Jakarta, Rabu (2/4).
Deforestasi, lanjut dia, merupakan persoalan terbesar yang harus diatasi Indonesia dalam penurunan emisi gas rumah kaca. Data Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup 1998 menyebutkan, dari total 800 juta ton emisi gas rumah kaca yang dihasilkan Indonesia selama 1992-1997 sekitar 75% di antaranya didominasi alih fungsi lahan. Sisanya, dengan angka yang kurang signifikan, dihasilkan oleh penggunaan energi dan aktivitas industri.
- Reader Digest (Asia Edition) - 3 September 2007
Title: The Man Who Halted the Chain Saws
Luther Tare is an unlikely forest saviour. Slightly built, with a slender face and wispy beard, black hair neatly cropped, he wears a brightly patterned, short-sleeved shirt. Yet, in a land where loggers have done almost as they pleased, Tare has shown a steely resolve in safeguarding a patch of rainforest. ''All human needs are met by nature,'' his parents told Tare when growing up in a Dayak village in northeast Kalimantan. ''We depend on forests.'
- Jakarta Post - 27 August 2007
Title: Green change needed to keep life in city bearable
Meanwhile, the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) said that poor spatial planning in the capital was the main contributor to higher temperatures in the capital.
"Jakarta will become hotter in the future due to impact of climate change unless the city starts promoting green projects," said Heru Santoso, coordinator for Cifor's Asia Tropical Forest and Climate Change Project.
- CarbonoBrasil - 11 August 2007
Title: Seminário debate interação entre saúde e floresta
Os produtos das florestas são importantes fontes de nutrição, medicina e bem-estar para centenas de milhões de pessoas no mundo. Apesar das inúmeras contribuições das florestas para a saúde humana, a conexão entre as duas áreas ainda é incipiente.
Para discutir e ampliar o entendimento sobre o papel das florestas na saúde de populações rurais e urbanas, o Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG/MCT) e o Centro para Pesquisa Florestal Internacional (Cifor) promovem nos próximos dias 13 e 14, em Belém (PA), o seminário "Saúde e Floresta: desenvolvimento sustentável com qualidade de vida".
More hits published in ORM, O Liberal, Radio Cultural, SBT, Diario do Para and TV Cultura
- Tribun Kaltim, Indonesia - 4 August 2007
Title: Konflik di TNK Sudah Terbuka
Peneliti hutan dari Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Indonesia, Agus Mulyana mengaku, potensi konflik yang ada di Taman Nasional Kutai (TNK) saat ini sudah masuk pada taraf yang sangat riskan. Sudah masuk kategori konflik terbuka. "Hasil pemetaan kami terkini, potensi konflik di TNK sudah masuk kategori konflik terbuka. Ini sangat riskan jika kita tidak segera ditangani secara serius dan terintegrasi," ujar Agus di sela-sela acara lokalatih TNK di Wisma Raya, Swarga Bara-KPC, Jumat (3/8). Agus memetakan konflik di TNK sebagai konflik yang terbuka, karena saat ini masyarakat yang ada di dalam wilayah TNK sudah secara terang-terangan membuat batas demarkasi antara satu kelompok dengan kelompok yang lain. Hal ini menjadi semakin riskan, karena pada awalnya akar konflik hanya sebatas konflik sumber daya alam (SDA), namun saat ini sudah melebar menjadi konflik sosial.
- Suara Karya, Indonesia - 2 August 2007
Title: Pemanasan global: Tahun 2050 Sebagian Jakarta dan Bekasi Tenggelam
Peneliti senior dari Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) menjelaskan, pemanasan global adalah kejadian terperangkapnya radiasi gelombang panjang matahari (disebut juga gelombang panas/inframerah) yang dipancarkan bumi oleh gas-gas rumah kaca. Efek rumah kaca adalah istilah untuk panas yang terperangkap di dalam atmosfer bumi dan tidak bisa menyebar. Gas-gas itu secara alami terdapat di udara (atmosfer). Penipisan lapisan ozon juga memperpanas suhu bumi. Makin tipis lapisan teratas atmosfer, makin leluasa radiasi gelombang pendek matahari (termasuk ultraviolet) memasuki bumi. Pada gilirannya, radiasi gelombang pendek ini juga berubah menjadi gelombang panas, sehingga kian meningkatkan konsentrasi gas rumah kaca.
- Agro Indonesia1 August 2007
Title: Perang Dagang Berkedok Dumping dan Lingkungan
Bicara industri pulp dan kertas Indonesia, orang pasti ingat dua nama besar yang kebetulan sama-sama berbasis di Riau dan sama-sama menggunakan kata Asia. Namun, dua nama itu bisa tenggelam diterjang persaingan dagang berkedok penegakan hukum.
- Jakarta Post - 30 July 2007
Title: Science key to better environmental decisions
Such hard lessons should be a thing of the past in Indonesia. Scientists and researchers have built up a solid body of knowledge of soils, ecology and environmental impacts that can help policy makers avoid repeating past mistakes and to help address rather than exacerbate environmental problems. But this knowledge is seldom used. Those with power and influence often find it advantageous to ignore well founded environmental concerns. Think of George Bush's past stance on global warming. Sometimes the politicians are not wholly to blame.
- ABC Radio Australia - 24 July 2007
Title: Australia to push Asia-Pacific climate solution
Frances Seymour, the director-general of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, told Radio Australia's Connect Asia program that Australia's commitment will help Indonesia address the problem of deforestation. "I think there are two important potential uses - one is to start the design of new mechanisms that would provide the government or individual land owners with payments to avoid deforestation," he said. "But perhaps more importantly the money would be used to invest in developing this so-called readiness for those programs, so strengthening policy, strengthening government capacities to address the important problem of deforestation."
Similar version appeared in ABC Radio Australia program Rural Western Australia
- ABC Radio Australia Pacific Beat Program - 24 July 2007
Title: Cash boost to monitor illegal logging
Australia is planning to set up a global carbon accounting scheme to fund closer monitoring of countries illegally logging timber. It includes plans to use satellite imagery to track changes in forest cover in countries like Indonesia. The announcement was made at an international ministerial meeting on forests and climate change in Sydney. It follows a $AU200 million fund launched by Canberra earlier this year to help developing nations reduce the amount of greenhouse gas pollution caused by deforestation. Presenter - Frances Seymour, director-general of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research
- Daily Telegraph, Australia - 24 July 2007
Title: Save trees for green future
Frances Seymour, director of the Centre for International Forestry Research, congratulated the Australian Government for being the first to make a significant commitment to the climate and forests agenda, and for convening this conference. Deforestation has been largely neglected by international efforts to combat climate change, but as a result of a small number of countries, including Australia, forest issues are moving to the top of the agenda. The reason is as obvious as the need is urgent.
Similar story appeared in NEWS.com.au
- ABC Radio National - 23 July 2007
Title: AUSTRALIA: Funding to tackle greenhouse gas emissions
The Australian government this year launched a 200-million dollar initiative to help developing nations reduce global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation. Presenter - Sen Lam Speaker - Frances Seymour, the director-general of the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry Research
- ABC Radio National Breakfast23 July 2007
Title: Forests and Climate Change
Earlier this year the PM announced a $200 million package to help our near neighbours with deforestation. John Howard said fighting deforestation in Indonesia would be more effective than signing the Kyoto Protocol. Whether or not that's the case, it certainly is true that upwards of twenty per cent of global greenhouse emissions are caused by deforestation in developing countries, so the money can't hurt. Frances Seymour is the director-general of the Centre for International Forestry Research, based in Indonesia.
- ABC Radio Australia Program Rural Tasmania - 23 July 2007
Title: Turnbull: deforestation a "scourge" on the world
But the Center for International Forestry Research says the underlying causes of deforestation are more complex. The organisation's Indonesian-based Director-General, Frances Seymour, says better regulatory frameworks are required by all governments. "The bad news is the underlying causes of deforestation trace back to pretty fundamental market failures and governance failures and they are not going to be solved overnight," she says. Ms Seymour says Australia's issues with pulp-milling and land clearing are global in nature, and especially prevalent in developing countries, where high-profile crackdowns on illegal logging tend to focus on the man with the chain saw and not the corporation with the swollen bank account.
- ABC Radio Australia program Rural News - 23 July 2007
Title: International environmental conference begins in Sydney
But the Centre for International Forestry Research director-general Frances Seymour says the underlying causes of deforestation are more complex. "The bad news is that the underlying causes of deforestation trace back to pretty fundamental market failures and governance failures, but I can say that countries face similar issues around the world, in terms of how to align incentives so that valuable forest land is not cleared for agriculture and to ensure that pulp milling capacity does not exceed the ability of plantation to provide sustainable sources of wood to industry," she said.
- Kompas - 20 July 2007
Title: Protokol Kyoto- Tak Terhindari, Negosiasi Masalah Ekonomi
Perundingan dalam COP pada akhirnya memang tidak hanya menyangkut persoalan teknis, tetapi juga ekonomi. Peneliti Senior Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Dr Daniel Murdiyarso, mengingatkan, dari sekitar 500 proyek CDM yang terdaftar untuk menurunkan emisi, hanya tujuh proyek aforestasi (A) dan reforestasi (R) CDM yang berjalan. Indonesia, katanya, mendaftarkan dua proyek yang belum jelas nasibnya. Daniel mendukung ide pengurangan emisi dari deforestasi (D) di negara berkembang yang dilontarkan pada tahun 2005 di Montreal. Ia berharap COP 13 di Bali menghasilkan keputusan tentang itu.
- Mongabay.com - 16 July 2007
Title: Is peat swamp worth more than palm oil plantations?
Could peat swamp be worth more intact for their carbon value than palm oil plantations for their oil? Quick analysis suggests yes, though binding limits on emissions will be needed to trigger the largest ever flow of money from the industrialized world to developing countries. At stake: the bulk of the world's biodiversity.
- Sinar Harapan - 11 July 2007
Title: Pembangkit Listrik Bahan Bakar Gambut Dapat Memicu Emisi Karbon
Pembangunan energi alternatif dari lahan gambut untuk mengurangi ketergantungan pada Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM), namun pendapat yang mempertanyakan ini disampaikan Daniel Murdiyarso, peneliti senior CIFOR, lembaga peneliti hutan internasional bermarkas di Bogor, Rabu pagi ini. “Menurut saya, gambut bukan green energy, dan yang lebih parah lagi, akibat dari ekstraksi itu luar biasa,” jelas Daniel Murdiyarso. “Belum lagi emisi dari drainase,” lanjutnya, “jadi kalau bahan organik didrainase dia juga mengemisikan karbon.”
- Wall Street Journal - 3 July 2007
Title: Indonesia's Logging Fight. Smugglers Defy Crackdown to Feed Demand in China
Krystof Obidzinski, of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, contends that more than 70% of logs going to Indonesia's timber-processing industry have been illegally felled. Pressure on Papua's forests, in particular, is likely to increase in coming years, with projects on the drawing board to plant enormous plantations for palm oil, which is used to produce biodiesel. Seeking to exploit the rising global demand for alternative energy, China National Offshore Oil Corp. said in January it was ready to invest $5.5 billion to develop plantations and biodiesel factories in Kalimantan and Papua.
- Reuters - 2 July 2007
Title: Climate deals turn up heat in Indonesia's dark peatlands
Within the million hectares of the nearby ex-Mega Rice Project peatlands, Rieley's scientists have been offered funding from Climate Care for tree planting and fire-fighting. Shell Canada is bank-rolling NGO-led peat rehydration and the Dutch government has invested 5 million euros ($6.7 million) in dam-building. "They are all coming to visit the same people in Palangkaraya," said Daniel Murdiyarso of the Bogor-based Centre for International Forestry Research. "There's so much interest - we are in the eye of the hurricane."
Similar version of this story also appeared LKBN Antara, Boston Globe, Yahoo!, ABC News, Washington Post, China Radio International (CRI), Environmental News Network, Jakarta Post and Gulf Times Newspaper.
- Sinar Harapan - 28 June 2007
Title: Indonesia Belum Siap Hadapi Dampak Perubahan Iklim
Perubahan iklim yang menghantui dunia kian menjadi kenyataan. Namun, Indonesia diklaim belum siap menghadapinya. “Pemanasan global akan mempengaruhi banyak hal, terutama keanekaragaman hayati. Sayangnya, kita seperti tak mempersiapkannya, padahal banyak sekali kerugian yang harus dihadapi,” papar Prof Dr Daniel Murdiyarso, pada acara Seminar mengenai “Keanekaragaman Hayati di Tengah Perubahan Iklim: Tantangan Masa Depan Indonesia”, yang diselenggarakan Yayasan Keanekaragaman Hayati Indonesia (Kehati), Kamis (28/6) pagi ini.
- Kompas23 June 2007
Title: Peralihan yang menentukan
Sebagai negara tropis yang memiliki hutan tropis yang terluas ketiga di dunia, Indonesia berpeluang memanfaatkan pasar yang bermunculan. Namun, harus ada kebijakan jelas mencakup penggunaan dan pemilikan lahan, pengelolaan hutan berkelanjutan dan kemampuan inventarisasi hutan dengan cadangan karbonnya. Perundingan tentang perubahan iklim selama ini terlalu terfokus pada ekonomi dan teknologi dan melupakan soal manusia serta tatanan sosial-ekologis. Begitu kritik salah satu panelis. Kesepakatan untuk menghambat laju pemanasan biosfer, menurut dia, tidak serta merta mengandung pemecahan sosial ekologis Bumi.
- Kompas - 23 June 2007
Title: Perubahan iklim: sektor pertanian paling terpukul
Cuaca yang tidak menentu, curah hujan yang tinggi, ombak besar, banjir dan berbagai bencana alam yang datang merupakan salah satu cirri-cirinya. Intensitas bencana maupun frekuensinya pun semakin meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. “Kejadian-kejadian ini cukup menyadarkan masyarakat bahwa dampak pemanasan global yang menyebabkan perubahan iklim mulai terjadi di tengah-tengah kita,” ungkap Dr. Heru Santoso, coordinator untuk Asia, proyek Hutan Tropis dan Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim, CIFOR.
- Braga Magazine, Indonesia - 5 June 2007
Title: Book review - Merunut pencucian uang
Apa yang menyebabkan pembalakan liar di Indonesia sulit dihentikan? Keterlibatan penyokong dana, yang kerap disebut cukong, industri kayu legal, dan aparat yang korup adalah jawabannya. Penegakan hokum pencucian uang dengan pendekatan “mengikuti uang” dapat menjadi pilihan penting untuk menjerat mereka. Saat ini pendekatan penegakan hokum kehutanan tak mampu menghentikan pembabat hutan yang telah merugikan triliunan rupiah ini.
- Braga Magazine, Indonesia - 1 June 2007
Title: Gelombang panas ancam nusantara
Hutan Indonesia berpeluang menyelamatkan bumi dari deraan pemanasan global. Di balik itu, negara ini perlu segera menyusun strategi adaptasi nasional. Di tengah upaya mengantisipai perubahan iklim, hutan Indonesia mendapat perhatian dunia. Hutan Indonesia dianggap berpeluang melindungi bumi dari pemanasan global.
- Braga Magazine, Indonesia - 1 June 2007
Title: Jasa Lingkungan – Saatnya Membayar kepada Alam
Nilai ekonomi hasil kayu ternyata hanya lima persen dari nilai total kawasan hutan di Indonesia. Sedangkan 95 persen lainnya merupakan nilai ekonomi non-kayu, termasuk jasa lingkungan hutan. Namun dalam pelaksanaan perlu mekanisme, cara penghitungan.
- AP - 30 May 2007
Title: Indonesia wants money to preserve forests as part of new climate change deal
Markku Kanninen, from the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, said the idea of rewarding countries for preserving their forests was gaining international support given that deforestation now accounted for 20 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. «This is quite a cheap way of achieving some climate benefits, he said. We are not constructing any expensive technological solutions, we are just preserving something that is there.
Similar version of the article also published in Jakarta Post and International Herald Tribune
- Sinar Harapan - 12 May 2007
Title: PROFILE Daniel Murdiyarso: Dari Hutan Melihat Masa Depan
Seperti itu juga yang terjadi pada pria itu, Prof Daniel Murdiyarso PhD, dalam memetakan kondisi hutan masa kini, pemanfaatan, dan prediksinya bagi pembangunan bangsa. Anda mau melihat buktinya? Hal itu jelas terlihat pada kemampuannya memprediksi konversi penyerapan karbondioksida (CO2) dari hutan.
Keahlian tersebut jelas bukan main-main, karena tak sembarang orang bisa melakukannya. “Hutan bukan hanya untuk diambil kayunya. Mengambil kayu hanya sebagian kecil dari manfaat pohon,” tuturnya.
Pengetahuan semacam itu menjadi makin penting, kala pola perubahan iklim semakin menggejala saat ini. Sebab seperti diketahui, pemanasan global yang mengakibatkan perubahan iklim sekarang ini sebenarnya sebagian besar berasal dari tingginya penyebaran CO2 di angkasa. CO2 yang terperangkap di lapisan langit, memaksa panas sinar matahari tertahan di udara bumi. Bumi yang bertambah panas mengakibatkan perubahan iklim dan cuaca.
- The Jakarta Post - 11 May 2007
Title: Climate change not on the city's mind
Senior researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research Daniel Murdiyarso said that understanding of climate change was still very poor across Indonesia. "It is very sad, not only the public, but many of the state officials do not know what climate change is," he told reporters during a recent discussion hosted by WWF Indonesia.
- Kaltim Post - 9 May 2007
Title: Posisi SDA Masih sebagai Komoditas Pendapatan-Lokalatih Pembiayaan Jasa Lingkungan bagi Pembangunan Daerah Se-Kalimantan
Sayangnya selama ini -terutama di Indonesia- pemanfaatan nilai ekonomi masih terlalu dominan dibandingkan pemanfaatan nilai-nilai lingkungan dan sosial. Nilai jasa lingkungan seperti pemanfaatan sumber daya air, ekowisata, keragaman hayati, hasil hutan nirkayu serta nilai-nilai budaya masih belum diinternalisasikan ke dalam proses pengembangan kebijakan pendapatan berimbang. Untuk itulah, berbagai pihak penggerak lingkungan yang terdiri dari Pusat Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup (PPLH) Regional Kalimantan, Tropenbos, GTZ-SMCP, WWF Indonesia, Badan Pengelola HL Sungai Wain, Cifor dan didukung PT Pupuk Kaltim mengelar Lokalatih Pembiayan Jasa Lingkungan Bagi Pembangunan Daerah yang digelar 8–10 Mei 2007 di Balikpapan. Pembukaan sudah dilakukan kemarin (8/5) di Hotel Mega Lestari yang diisi lokakarya.
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