From Words to Actions WWF-Indonesia s experience in supporting sustainable palm oil

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1 From Words to Actions WWF-Indonesia s experience in supporting sustainable palm oil Fitrian Ardiansyah & Dian Achmad Kosasih WWF-Indonesia 4 th Roundtable Meeting of RSPO, Singapore November 2006 WWF-Indonesia Part of WWF Global Network: 27 national organisations, 6 associate organisations, 22 program offices globally In Indonesia: 300 staff, 19 provinces (Aceh to Papua) Goal: to stop and eventually reverse environmental degradation and to build a future where people live in a socially just way in harmony with nature One of the missions: sustainable use of natural resources. 1

2 Forestry Sector: Illegal logging, flooding, fires & climate change Mining: forest destruction, pollution, social conflicts Agri/Plantation: forest clearance, social/ wildlife conflicts, fires, pollution Emerging Issues While better managed plantations and oil palm smallholdings serve as models of sustainable agriculture there is serious concern that not all palm oil is being produced sustainably at present. Development of new plantations has resulted in the conversion of large areas of forests with high conservation value and has threatened the rich biodiversity in these ecosystems. (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil/RSPO s Fact sheet, 2004) It is recognized that there are environmental pressures on its expansion to ecosensitive areas, particularly as oil palm can only be cultivated in tropical areas of Asia, Africa and South America. (Editorial of The Planter, Vol.80, No..945, December, 2004) Conversion of Forests to Oil Palm Kalimantan: 4 million ha released; only 2 million ha planted (Min of Forestry, 2006) Sumatra (2000): 1.3 million ha of 1.8 million ha converted is using the flag of oil palm permits Overlapping with the buffer zone of national parks and high conservation value forests/ areas 2

3 Forest and Land Fires 40% hotspots in 2005, Riau, occurred in plantation companies; 50% in community lands. 7.5 hotspots/ hour (mostly peatland) Human-Wildlife Conflicts: (e.g. elephants: in 2003, costs of plantation damage in Riau approx. USD 133 millions or equal to 80% of provincial budget in that year; tigers; orangutan) Social conflicts: land tenure, customary rights Solution: Engaging Palm Oil Sector Public, Consumers, NGOs Business people People in the field Politicians/ government Palm Oil Sector: (-) depletion of natural resources (enviro-social impacts), (+) produce enviro-friendly solutions; Palm Oil Sector: parts of PROBLEMS as well as SOLUTIONS 3

4 Solution: Engaging Palm Oil Sector (2) Our engagement: producers processors buyers consumers and investors, media WWF-Indonesia s Actions (i) Contributing to RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) as: Executive Board member Criteria Working Group member resulting in Principles & Criteria and Guidance on Sustainable Palm Oil (economic, social, environment) Being involved in smallholders task force and joint work in piloting parts of P&C Promoting RSPO at national, local levels RSPO Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil 4

5 WWF-Indonesia s Actions (ii) Identifying HCVF (high conservation value forests) at landscape level (West Kalimantan & Southern Papua completed, Riau completed for one HCV, Central & East Kalimantan are underway) Identifying & applying HCVF at oil palm concessions level (w/ PT SMART Tbk. & PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk. - underway, planned in PT LonSum Tbk.) Trainings for HCVF/ SPO for CEO to smallholders (w/ IPOC) WWF-Indonesia s Actions (iii) Better management practices/bmps : Human-elephants conflicts mitigation (BMP doc published, flying squad/ crop protection unit: reducing econ. loss of a community in and around Tesso Nilo NP ($1,740 reduce to $109/month, Riau, 2006) MoU w/ PT Inti Indosawit Human-orangutan conflicts mitigation (draft ready developed w/ BOS, Unas, UI, WCS-IP) Green investment screening handbook (being developed, w/ Profundo, HSBC, Rabobank, ING, etc.) 5

6 WWF-Indonesia s Actions (iv) Undertaking a study in Riau (w/ Univ of Riau) to understand complexity of smallholders issues (will contribute to smallholders task force) Providing inputs to the government on sust. palm oil and appropriate land use (e.g. influencing oil palm plan in the border of Kalimantan) Plan & Future Actions Continuous work with palm oil actors and key stakeholders in mitigating risks and impacts resulting from oil palm plan, development and operations Understanding new emerging issue: e.g. bioenergy Strengthening the existing focuses: HCVF, BMP Working with farmers and locals in the area of fires management & mitigation 6

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