On December 5th, DIPI, the Indonesian Science Fund, Sebijak Institute, Faculty of Forestry Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta and Thünen Institute of Forestry conducted a workshop on preliminary results from the CarbonLeak project in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Richard Fischer, Heiner von Lüpke, Simon Thomsen, Paola Pozo Inofuentes and Matthias Dieter (all Thünen Institute of Forestry) together with Ahmad Maryudi (Sebijak Institute) presented first results of CarbonLeak and discussed them with national stakeholders. Objective of the workshop was to receive profound country-specific feedback from the Indonesian participants. The workshop was attended by about 50 participants from national and regional governments, NGOs, enterprises, research institutes and international organizations. There was broad consensus that land use and production changes in Europe under the Green Deal policies will have effects on Indonesian producers and land use and that further detailed results of the research are needed.
The CarbonLeak project aims at analysing the effects of European climate protection measures on global agricultural and timber markets and of the potential leakage effects on emissions. Two case studies in the countries Brazil and Indonesia serve the purpose of translating global market modelling results into more “down-to-earth” regional analyses and policy recommendations.
For this, (i) scenarios for spatial explicit regional land use changes are going to be developed and modelled, (ii) sustainability criteria identified and assessed, and (iii) policy instruments analysed with regard to their coherence and potential supporting or hampering land use change effects.
The discussions at the workshop gave valuable insights and input for further work on the case study Indonesia.
