Carbon Trading Mechanism Australia Will Occupy 100,000 Hectares of Kalimantan Forest
- translated by Rosmi Julitasari
VHRmedia, Jakarta – Australia’s and Indonesia’s government plan to make an agreement on carbon trading mechanism through Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership (KFCP) program. Australia will pay AUS$ 30 million for leasing 100 thousand hectares of carbon absorber forest for 4 years.
A delegation of Australia Friend of the Earth (FoE) Ellen Roberts said that Australia’s government runs this project to achieve the carbon trading with cheap price, without reducing their industrial activities, which are polluting the earth.
“The fund is not for Indonesia’s people, but for Australia’s own good,” Ellen said in a discussion in the Indonesia Environmental Forum (Walhi) office, Monday (11/30).
Head of Campaign Department of Walhi Teguh Surya examined that offset mechanism implementation to reduce the greenhouse emission potentially cause many conflicts. “This is the dirtiest scheme to save the climate, it has been proven to be useless,” he said.
According to Teguh, if the government insists to implement the reduction emission scheme through carbon trading, it has to be full of requirements, such as by attaching regulation which prohibits exporting wood to industrial countries. “But Indonesia’s government has never implemented that kind of regulation.”
Staff of Strategic Study of Indonesia’s Peasants Union Elisha Kartini said that carbon trading mechanism potentially increase seizing land, which belongs to the community. In Jambi, there are at least 101 hectares of farmers’ land were seized for REDD areas. “The conference in Copenhagen has not been staged yet, but many projects of industrial countries have already existed in developing countries.” (E1)
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