What does REDD+ mean for business?
JAKARTA, Indonesia (6 May, 2011)_Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) discussed the challenges of…
1 min readBusinesses and environmentalists need to ‘get real’ over REDD+
JAKARTA, Indonesia (29 April, 2011)_Business and environmental lobbies need to ‘get real’ over the importance of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from…
3 min readBusinesses pledge support for Indonesian green economy
JAKARTA, Indonesia (29 April, 2011)_Indonesian businesses have announced their commitment to work towards a green economy by presenting the Coordinating…
2 min readIndonesia’s Yudhoyono promises incentives to develop degraded land
JAKARTA, Indonesia (29 April, 2011)_Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promises incentives and renews calls for businesses to develop the country’s…
2 min readAgus Purnomo’s key messages for forest and climate change
JAKARTA, Indonesia (29 April, 2011)_Indonesia’s chief climate change negotiator, Agus Purnomo today discussed the difficulties between balancing a growing economy…
5 min readREDD+ Taskforce Reaches Out to Palm Oil Companies
JAKARTA, Indonesia (28 April 2011)_Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Head of the President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight and Chair of…
4 min readTranscript of President Yudhoyono’s speech at B4E Global Summit
JAKARTA, Indonesia (28 April, 2011)_The President of Indonesia, Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono today announced the opening of a program that…
11 min readEnvironment Caught in the Extremes
This article, written by Agus Purnomo, special adviser on climate change to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, first appeared in the…
5 min readForests and food security: What we know and need to know
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 April, 2011)_A few weeks ago, I met a senior diplomat from one of the countries where CIFOR…
4 min readBusiness as usual important for forest conservation strategies
BOGOR, Indonesia (19 April, 2011)_With the Indonesian economy set to grow by 7 percent next year, climate change mitigation policies…
3 min readThe 9 billion people question: Food security & why biodiversity is important
BOGOR, Indonesia (10 April, 2011)_Food security has become one of the most important issues of our time. In February, The…
4 min readBiodiesel Demand Fuelled by Policy, Not Oil Prices
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=For1jPJ9PZEBOGOR, Indonesia (6 April, 2011)_World media have reported a renewed interest in biofuels as unrest in the Middle East pushes…
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