Penelitian “Perluasan Pendekatan Yurisdiksi pada Sektor Kelapa Sawit di Indonesia” bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesiapan kabupaten produsen sawit terpilih dalam mengimplementasikan program-program yurisdiksi (Jurisdictional Programs/JPs) menuju kelapa sawit berkelanjutan melalui pendekatan partisipatif, multipihak, dan inklusif gender; dengan memanfaatkan pembelajaran dari pelaksanaan JP oleh CIFOR-ICRAF beserta pihak-pihak lainnya.
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Pour un suivi transparent dans la pratique: Guide pour un suivi efficace dans le secteur des terres. Livre II – Études de cas sur les démarches de suivi transparent
La gestion des terres joue un rôle décisif dans la lutte contre le changement climatique, ce qui rend le suivi transparent indispensable. Les pays disposent d’une large marge de manœuvre pour fixer leurs objectifs, définir la portée du secteur de l’utilisation des terres et rendre compte des émissions et absorptions de gaz à effet de serre qui en sont issues. Toutefois, ils sont tenus de le faire d’une façon qui favorise la transparence et fournisse suffisamment d’exactitude, d’exhaustivité, de cohérence et de comparabilité.
Le projet Suivi transparent a permis de concevoir un ensemble de critères visant à surmonter les difficultés présentées dans le Livre I. Le Livre II présente une collection d’études de cas illustrant la mise en œuvre réussie de démarches de suivi transparent, d’après les expériences menées en Côte d’Ivoire, Éthiopie, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et Pérou. Ces études abordent les besoins spécifiques identifiés par les pays, allant de travaux techniques sur les facteurs d’émission liés à la conversion de forêts en plantations de palmiers à huile, à l’utilisation des données de suivi fournies par la communauté pour la restauration de la forêt et les alertes de déforestation, en passant par la cartographie des moteurs de la déforestation grâce à la télédétection et par l’amélioration de la communication des cartes du cacao pour différentes parties prenantes.
Ces études de cas démontrent que les démarches de suivi transparent sont bien plus qu’un simple itinéraire technique : il s’agit d’un puissant instrument au service d’une action climatique concrète. En s’attaquant aux difficultés existantes et en prenant appui sur les succès décrits dans le présent rapport, les pays seront en mesure d’instaurer des systèmes de suivi capables d’enclencher un changement transformateur. La voie à suivre requiert de l’engagement, de la collaboration et de l’innovation, mais débouchera sur des politiques du secteur de l’utilisation des terres plus efficaces, avec pour avantages une plus grande résilience et une action plus forte contre le changement climatique.
Pour un suivi transparent dans la pratique: Guide pour un suivi efficace dans le secteur des terres. Livre I – Comprendre les démarches de suivi transparent
La gestion des terres joue un rôle décisif dans la lutte contre le changement climatique, ce qui rend le suivi transparent indispensable. Les pays disposent d’une large marge de manœuvre pour fixer leurs objectifs, définir la portée du secteur des terres et rendre compte des émissions et absorptions de gaz à effet de serre qui en sont issues. Toutefois, ils sont tenus de le faire d’une façon qui favorise la transparence et avec suffisamment d’exactitude, d’exhaustivité, de cohérence et de comparabilité.
Le volume de données actuellement généré à l’échelle mondiale est inédit. Ces données sont disponibles pour évaluer les changements de l’utilisation et de gestion des terres dans le temps, et en déterminer les effets sur les émissions et absorptions de gaz à effet de serre. La richesse de ces données peut servir de socle solide à la génération de produits et services de qualité pour le suivi des évolutions du stock de carbone. Néanmoins, cette quantité colossale d’informations crée aussi de la confusion, avec des définitions contradictoires et des interprétations erronées.
Le projet de suivi transparent a permis de concevoir un ensemble de critères visant à surmonter ces difficultés et à renforcer l’efficacité du suivi des émissions de gaz à effet de serre à partir du secteur des terres. Ces critères sont présentés dans le présent Livre I. Les démarches de suivi transparent portent sur les jeux de données, les outils et les portails qui répondent aux besoins des pays dans le secteur des terres, en leur fournissant des données pouvant compléter les informations nécessaires à leur propre système de suivi.
En tirant avantage des démarches de suivi transparent, les pays peuvent augmenter leurs capacités pour suivre et rendre compte de leurs émissions et absorptions de GES du secteur des terres, et progresser dans la mise en œuvre du cadre de transparence renforcée (ETF) de l’Accord de Paris. Le Livre II comprend une collection d’études de cas illustrant la mise en œuvre réussie de démarches de suivi transparent.
Towards a sustainable woodfuel sector in Tshopo Province, DR Congo
Most households in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) use charcoal for cooking. Demand for this essential fuel is increasing due to urbanization and population growth. The high level of demand is putting intense pressure on forest resources because charcoal production is linked to forest degradation, often in combination with slash-and-burn agriculture.
Smallholder farmers, with no access to sustainably managed resources and few alternative options for generating cash income, are unintentionally contributing to this degradation.
The Potential for Restoring and Rewilding Degraded Ecosystems Across the Congo Basin to Play a Role in Land Management and Conservation
The Congo Basin, home to one of the world’s most biodiversity tropical forest ecosystems, is facing intensifying deforestation and ecological degradation driven by slash-and-burn agriculture, industrial logging, armed conflicts, and expanding urbanization. While much of its forests cover remains comparatively “intact” relative to other major tropical regions, mounting anthropogenic pressures accelerating habitat fragmentation and faunal decline. Safeguarding remaining forests landscapes, establishing ecological corridors, and advancing sustainable resource governance are urgent conservation priorities. However, ecological restoration and rewilding efforts—with its potential to reverse degradation—remain limited in scope and implementation. Current initiatives are frequently constrained by insecure land tenure, inadequate financial mechanisms, weak private sector engagement, and challenges in achieving long-term local participation. Emerging integrative approaches that combine community-based restoration, technological innovation, species reintroduction (e.g., pilot efforts involving gorillas and bonobos) demonstrate potential, yet remain at an early stage. Looking forward, key challenges include strengthening scientific research— particularly on seed viability and forest regeneration dynamics—enhancing monitoring frameworks, and mobilizing innovative, durable financing models. Drawing on international best practices and fostering cross-sectoral collaboration will be critical to embedding restoration and rewilding within broader sustainable management strategies for the Congo Basin. Addressing these gaps offers a unique opportunity to position the region not only as a biodiversity stronghold, but also as a global leader in ecological resilience and climate mitigation.
Policy Change and Expected Policy Impacts: An ACF Analysis of the Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa in Cameroon
Cameroon’s ambition to produce 600,000 metric tons of cocoa by 2025 and double this target by 2030 is often interpreted as a threat to remaining forests because Cameroon cocoa is traditionally established on forest land. Signing the Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa can be considered a major policy milestone in the cocoa sector in Cameroon, and thus provides a case to use the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to understand actors’ beliefs and links to policy change. The case study is useful because the Roadmap is intended to enhance sustainable cocoa production in the country, but it is entangled by positive and opposing objectives of government, farmers, the private sector, and other stakeholders. Specifically, this chapter uses the ACF lens to identify and map actors in the deforestation-free cocoa policy subsystem and processes, analyze the drivers of policy change, and assess actors’ perceptions, motivations, and beliefs that desired changes can be achieved through the proposed policy instrument.
Strengthening the role of local people in REDD+ in a post-FCPF world: The story of Indonesia and East Kalimantan
Key messages
- The level of knowledge on climate change and carbon trade is highly uneven with greater understanding among provincial government officials directly involved in the FCPF program and lowest among village community members who face the highest risk.
- The East Kalimantan JREDD+ was the first of its kind in Indonesia, but complicated procedures and additional conditions imposed during implementation, coupled with demands from the private sector for a share in the carbon trade, are driving a turn to nested projects.
- JREDD+ that focuses on nesting through accounting loses the purported advantages of jurisdictional approaches and puts substantial project risk back on communities.
The Challenges and Barriers to Forest Certification for Sustainable Forest Management: A Systematic Review
Forest certification emerged in the international policy agenda during the 1980s due to growing concern about the extent and rate of deforestation. This review was motivated by the view that the challenges and barriers to the forest certification system must be overcome to enhance its contribution to sustainable forest management. This review is therefore aimed at synthesizing scholars’ views on the challenges and barriers of forest certification. The study examines debates on the challenges and barriers of forest certification through a systematic review of papers published in academic literature from 1995 to 2023. This systematic review was carried out on 104 peer-reviewed articles; it was performed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA). The analysis revealed five angles of certification challenges and barriers: administrative/legal, economic, social, environmental, and challenges related to certification systems. This study can be used as a guideline to identify the challenges and loopholes in forest certification for better management of the world’s forests. The governments of various countries and other stakeholders should embrace forest certification as a tool for sustainable forest management.
Advancing sustainable forest governance in Indonesia through global partnerships
Key messages
- Indonesia has made notable progress in reducing deforestation and improving forest governance, but areas for advancement remain. These areas include addressing overlapping regulations, uneven compliance with emerging international sustainability requirements, and limited inclusion of local communities and smallholders in sustainable land management.
- Emerging issues such as the deforestation-free market requirements and food security concerns, as well as political and administrative changes, present significant challenges to forest governance. They can create competing demands on land use, intensify pressure on forest resources, and necessitate more integrated, multi sectoral policy responses to balance environmental sustainability with economic and social priorities.
- International cooperation can play a role in advancing forest governance in Indonesia by contributing to the priority areas that need further enhancement and bridging national priorities with evolving global precedence, such as climate change mitigation and deforestation-free supply chains.
- This study suggests five core areas for advancement of sustainable forest governance: harmonizing policy and governance reforms, enhancing certification systems and strengthening traceability, advancing climate finance and market mechanisms, empowering community-based forest management through inclusive social forestry, and advancing technology transfer and capacity development of stakeholders.
Refining land-use-specific carbon emission factors for commodity-driven deforestation monitoring in Colombia
Deforestation remains one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Tropical regions are particularly critical to climate mitigation due to their high carbon density and ongoing conversion to agricultural uses. While earth observation (EO) has become fundamental for assessing land-use change over time and space, key gaps persist in understanding associated carbon emissions (CE) and their distribution across production systems, information required by diverse international and European policy frameworks targeting greenhouse gas reduction and deforestation. To address this, the study integrates satellite-derived aboveground biomass (AGB) with machine learning-based land-use modeling to quantify commodity-specific CE from deforestation in Colombia. Our key findings reveal that pasture expansion for livestock dominates emissions (>67% in the Amazonas and Orinoquía regions, approximately 25% nationally), while cocoa and coffee, despite smaller cultivation areas, exhibit high emission factors (>25% of subregional totals in the Andes, Pacífico, and Caribe). Smallholder croplands contribute up to 16.7% regionally, and oil palm plays a modest role nationally. These results underscore the importance of targeting both extensive pasture systems and high-emission perennial crops in deforestation-free supply chain policies, while considering the diverse regional land-use dynamics. In conclusion, our framework offers spatially explicit, crop-specific emission estimates that address essential gaps in EO-based CE quantification. It provides clear, actionable baselines for monitoring policies aimed at promoting deforestation-free supply chains, such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), across tropical landscapes. Ultimately, this data supports the creation of a comprehensive database of country-specific emission factors, a resource critical for enhancing national carbon inventories, guiding policy decisions related to high-risk deforestation commodities, and ensuring more transparent and traceable zero-deforestation supply chains.