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2018

Ancaman Jokowi mencopot jajaran TNI dan polisi: efektifkah mengatasi kebakaran hutan?

Ancaman Jokowi mencopot jajaran TNI dan polisi: efektifkah mengatasi kebakaran hutan?

Ancaman Presiden Joko Widodo untuk mencopot jajaran TNI dan kepolisian yang tidak bisa menangani kebakaran hutan dan lahan dinilai efektif mengatasi masalah tahunan itu. Presiden pertama kali mengeluarkan ancaman seperti itu pada 2016 lalu dan kini mengeluarkan ancaman serupa menjelang perhelatan Asian Games bulan Agustus, bertepatan dengan puncak musim kemarau di Indonesia. Peneliti dari Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Herry Purnomo mengungkapkan bahwa gertakan presiden ini cukup terbukti efektif menurunkan kebakaran hutan selama beberapa tahun terakhir -meski hingga kini belum terbukti ada jajaran TNI dan polri yang dicopot. “Tapi ancaman itu kena ke tentara dan polisi. Jabatan kan penting bagi mereka, mereka tidak ingin daerahnya dan jabatannya hilang. Terus terang itu efektif, cukup oke lah untuk menggertak,” ujar Herry kepada BBC Indonesia, Rabu (07/02).


The cost of increasing ecosystem carbon

The cost of increasing ecosystem carbon

Increasing the organic carbon stored in biomass and soils holds great promise to help mitigate climate change. Over the past two decades, a number of studies have attempted to estimate the cost, but results have been contradictory. Forest ecologist Markku Larjavaara, alongside other scientists from the University of Helsinki, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the University of Turku, set out to narrow this knowledge gap using a simple but innovative approach.


Threats to Congo peat forests put people, wildlife and climate goals at risk

Threats to Congo peat forests put people, wildlife and climate goals at risk

Working across country borders at the regional policy level to encourage governments to protect the area, which is governed by the International Convention on Wetlands, is one form of action recommended by UNEP, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and two-dozen partner organizations who form part of the Global Peatlands Initiative.


Iceland is battling to replant its forests

Iceland is battling to replant its forests

Iceland already gets about 85 percent of its energy supply from domestically produced renewable energy sources – mainly hydropower and thermal energy. That gives it the highest share of renewable energy in any national total energy budget, according to the Icelandic and Northern Energy Portal, an independent information source on energy issues in the Northern Atlantic and Arctic region.

Iceland’s effort to replant relatively slow-growing trees is unlikely to have a significant impact on global climate emissions, said Christopher Martius, a team leader for climate change, energy and low-carbon development at Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research.


GFAR Global Forum on Agricultural Research : CAAS Partnered New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia for Cooperation in Agricultural Science and Technology

GFAR Global Forum on Agricultural Research : CAAS Partnered New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia for Cooperation in Agricultural Science and Technology

At the invitation of the New Zealand National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Massey University; the Australian Natural Resources Management South (NRM South); University of Tasmania; the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Indonesia; and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Prof. Tang Huajun, President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) visited the above research agencies with a delegation from CAAS from November 22 to December 1, 2017. The delegation opened up official cooperation between CAAS and the New Zealand National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Massey University, Australian National Natural Resources Council, University of Tasmania and the Indonesian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the CIFOR. The existing cooperation between CAAS and the above-mentioned units in the field of sustainable development of agriculture and the environment, the building of a veterinary joint laboratory platform and joint personnel training was promoted. The visit also helped the technical achievements represented by veterinary drugs and vaccines go global, harvesting the signing of seven MoUs.


Making landscapes sustainable

Making landscapes sustainable

Eighty per cent of deforestation world-wide is linked to agriculture, which is also responsible for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions world-wide. The landscape approach seeks to tackle forestry and agriculture issues together to achieve sustainable solutions for the use of landscapes that benefit everyone living in them. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has described ten principles characterising the landscape approach and addressing aspects ranging from continual learning and adaptive management through rights and responsibilities of different actors to resilience to strengthening stakeholder capacity.

 



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