IPB Signs an MoU with REDD Internasional for Collaborative Research Programs

Directorate of Research and Innovation of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) organized  the International Seminar at IPB International Convention Center, on Monday, 10 February 2014. The seminar was jointly implemented between IPB with Copenhagen University, Denmark,  and Hanoi University, Vietnam.

The objectives of the seminar was to reduce the slash logging activities. In addition, it was also organized to give incentives for developing countries that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is a mechanism that has been under negotiation by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2005, with the twin objectives of mitigating climate change through reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and removing greenhouse gases through enhanced forest management in developing countries.

Surprisingly thereafter, REDD+ that were adopted at COP 19 in Warsaw, December 2013, REDD + or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and carbon stocks in developing enhacing countries. It was established to reduce emissions and enhance removals of greenhouse gases from forests

    Director of Research and Innovation of IPB, Prof. Iskandar Zulkarnain expected that the recommendations made  through this seminar will enable them to formulate the right research schemes in an effort to reduce emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and increase forest carbon stocks in developing countries.

This collaborative research project will be participated by the doctoral degree program students from Indonesia, Denmark and Vietnam under the supervision of an international REDD scheme. In addition, the research programs will be geared to analyze the regulation of REDD +, developing rules, access to the forest, how to compensate forest communities who depend on forests. (Wied).