Bogor’s Mayor Bima Arya wants to initiate a plan to designate area around the Bogor Botanical Gardens as a heritage site. In this context administrative buildings and the Bogor Legislative Council (DPRD) might be relocated as well to ease the traffic in the city center. City administration also plans to build a new terminal to accommodate local modes of transportation as well as public transportation integrated with Jakarta.
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REDD+ expected to preserve forests, empower local comunities
To address the challenge of climate change, Indonesia has been implementing the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) program, with the cooperation of foreign donors, particularly Norway, for the last nine years.
Money alone can’t sustain environmental payment schemes
Study on “Social Equity Matters in Payment for Ecosystem Services,” by the Basque Center for Climate Change and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) highlights emerging tensions between efficiency and equity in the design of PES schemes. Social equity dimensions are often overlooked in the design and call for efforts to ensure that PES schemes look beyond efforts to maximize budgets, the authors argued.
Africa: Money Alone Not Enough to Sustain Environmental Payment Schemes, Study Finds
Recent study on “Social Equity Matters in Payment for Ecosystem Services,”, led by the Basque Center for Climate Change and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) highlights emerging tensions between efficiency and equity in the design of PES schemes. The authors argue that social equity dimensions are often overlooked in the design and call for efforts to ensure that PES schemes look beyond efforts to maximize budgets.
Africa: In Fight against African Pests, Researchers Point to Natural-Born Killers
“Back to nature” approach to pest management: Infestations still threaten the food security of many smallholder farmers in Africa. With a growing global demand for synthetic-free pesticides, researchers demand to use African farmers’ knowledge of naturally occurring pesticides to make efficient, affordable and accessible botanical solutions.
Bogor to add green open spaces
Bogor’s city government plans to increase their budget in 2015 to pursue an green open spaces expansion. Government allocated budget of 20 billion IDR in 2015 for the purpose. The final goal is 30 %, as spatial planning requires.