Indonesia will receive at least 100 million dollars – almost NOK 1.1 billion – from Norway for its efforts to save the rainforest. It became clear when Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre met Indonesian President Joko Widodo during the climate summit in Dubai. – Indonesia’s success in reducing deforestation is the result of clear policies and effective climate measures. The country has reduced deforestation by 90 per cent in recent years, says Jonas Gahr Støre. He says that when we know that the world’s third largest rainforest is in Indonesia, this constitutes one of the largest single climate measures we have seen since the Paris Agreement in 2015. – The new cooperation between Indonesia and Norway is an important example of cooperation between countries that work with meeting the climate challenges, says Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya. Largest amount ever – We are proud of Norway’s cooperation with Indonesia, and hope other donors also want to support Indonesia in this work going forward, says Jonas Gahr Støre in Dubai Photo: Milana Knežević / news Norway has cooperated with Indonesia on climate and forests since 2010 In September last year, Norway and Indonesia entered into a new and larger agreement. Indonesia is one of the countries with which Norway cooperates in the effort to preserve the rainforest. Other countries include Brazil and Colombia. The Norwegian money is paid out according to results. The money Indonesia now for comes for good work in the years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. NOK 1 billion is the largest single amount that Norway has paid out in connection with investment in the rainforest. Since 2015, Indonesia has preserved 57,500 km2 of forest, which would have been destroyed if they had not succeeded in reducing deforestation. The area is larger than the entire Innlandet county. Smoke from forest fires in Sumatra in 2019. Photo: Afp Large forest fires Indonesia has around 1 million km² of rainforest. It makes up around 10 percent of the remaining tropical rainforest in the world. Agriculture based on the burning of forests led for a number of years to large areas disappearing each year. This in turn led to huge clouds of smoke and forest that spread over large parts of Southeast Asia. Forests are still burned, but deforestation has been reduced by over 90 per cent in recent years. Mangrove forest in Indonesia Photo: AFP Mangrove forest The money from Norway will go to a number of different climate measures in addition to reducing deforestation. They will also help to restore destroyed forest and peat bog areas, fight environmental crime, and contribute to more sustainable agriculture. A special focus area is preserving and restoring mangrove forests. It is a type of forest that floats in the salt water off the coast of Indonesia’s many islands. Mangroves are, in the same way as rainforests, very important for absorbing CO₂. Large amounts of mangrove forests have disappeared in recent decades, but now Indonesia is focusing on rebuilding them. CO₂ in the atmosphere measured in parts per million particles (ppm)460 parts per million particles (ppm)? Click for an explanation of parts per million, abbreviated ppmGo to news’s Climate Status Why is the graph so wavy? This is about seasons. In summer, the amount of CO₂ decreases because plants and trees absorb CO₂ from the air. In winter, the plants die, the CO₂ escapes and the graph rises. Since there are more plants and trees in the northern hemisphere, the seasons here control the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere. What is the problem with a lot of CO₂ in the atmosphere? The greenhouse effect makes the earth livable, but more greenhouse gases, such as CO₂, increase this effect and make the earth warmer . The graph starts in 1960 because this was the year when the world began to measure CO₂ systematically. It happened on Mauna Loa in Hawaii and the curve shows the measurements from there. Before the world became industrialized there was around 280 ppm CO₂ in the atmosphere (year 1700). The researchers found that out by analyzing ice core samples. Will there be less CO₂ in the atmosphere if emissions are cut? No, not immediately. If we cut emissions, the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere will only increase more slowly. The reduction in emissions must be large and last for a long time before we can see an effect. Imagine that the atmosphere is a bathtub and the greenhouse gases are the water you fill in. Even if you turn off the tap, the bathtub will not run out of water. This is the case with greenhouse gases and CO₂. It takes a long time for CO₂ to break down in the atmosphere. This is the reason why the experts want technology that sucks out greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, in addition to us cutting emissions. The world’s politicians have decided that they will try to limit the warming of the world to 1.5 degrees, compared to how the temperature was before the industrial revolution. Then we must keep the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere below 430 ppm, according to the UN’s climate panel.
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