FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014
Sustainable Landscapes for Green Growth in Southeast Asia
Jakarta, 5-6 May 2014
REPORT Executive Summary
Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory moderates the opening plenary panel on ‘Green Growth in Southeast Asia’. He is joined by Sunny Verghese, CEO, Olam and Peg Putt, CEO, Markets for Change
The Forests Asia Summit: Sustainable Landscapes for • Government, the corporate sector and the Green Growth in Southeast Asia, convened in Jakarta on finance sector must work together to create 5–6 May 2014, brought together 2,200 representatives enabling conditions to unlock private capital and from government, research, civil society and the private support investments in sustainable landscapes sector in a regional multi-stakeholder dialogue. The and smallholders. Summit was co-hosted by the Center for International • The scientific community, with support from Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Indonesian Ministry the public and private sectors, must engage of Forestry in collaboration with Global Initiatives. in integrated and targeted research aimed at increasing understanding of the dynamics that The Summit sought to lay the foundations for new shape landscapes and communicate findings to and continued multi-stakeholder dialogue, transitions government and business in a way that supports toward sustainable investments, and further research evidence-based changes in policy and practice to support evidence-based policy making, all directed toward a sustainable future and action on toward achieving equitable green growth and more the ground. sustainable management of landscapes across Southeast Asia. 86% of survey The conference concluded that: • To achieve equitable and sustainable green growth respondents rated in Southeast Asia, all stakeholder groups must strive the Summit as to overcome communication barriers, engage in continued, participatory dialogue, and act together “successful” or within a landscape and multilevel governance framework. “very successful”
i FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 Highlights CIFOR’s largest outreach and communications campaign to date A prestigious lineup of speakers Multiple media partnerships, numerous public comprising of high-level policy makers service announcements, blogs, infographics, and technical experts press releases and a photo competition sought to attract, inform and engage 2,200 Summit The President of Indonesia, Southeast Asian participants. Ministers and Vice Ministers and the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were among the 120 speakers who drew broad attention This momentum led to the Forests Asia Summit to the event, demonstrated the legitimacy of the being cited 343 times in media outlets such as conference as a platform to engage in high quality Reuters Alertnet, Wall Street Journal, Kompas, science-policy deliberations, and fostered the Straits Times and Mongabay. commitments to sustainable land use practices.
Significant engagement with the private Forests Asia Summit 2014 website sector Small to large-scale businesses represented throughout the Summit program represented a positive 20,957 216,044 step toward achieving meaningful dialogue between People Web pages business, research, civil society and government. It attracted visited highlighted the role that private sector finance can play in achieving an integrated landscapes approach to land management. 2,804 6,064 Numerous high-level bilateral and Background Briefs Views of the multilateral meetings downloaded Summit livestream On the sidelines of the Summit, senior government officials and development experts were provided a space to build bilateral relations and engage in policy discussions on key national and regional Social media activities challenges. Notable meetings included: • A bilateral between Indonesia and Singapore on the haze crisis
• A luncheon hosted by the Peruvian Minister of People Environment and UNFCCC COP20 President, and reached Dr. Pachauri to seek feedback from Southeast on Twitter 3.87 Asian Ministers on the upcoming climate negotiations in Lima million
Capacity building of partners in Southeast Asia Live tweets were sent by the President Capacity building initiatives have laid the foundations of Indonesia and the Forests Asia for long-term relationship building with CIFOR’s Singaporean Minister 355,632 stories read regional stakeholders and the development of a of Environment and on facebook knowledge-sharing community in Asia: Water Resources. • One-third of CIFOR’s targeted boundary partners joined the social media team and its related training activities 14,288 Youth moderators were mentored by Tweets sent 9,139 Forests Asia stories • liked, re-posted, CIFOR scientists and led discussions with 120 commented and participants in the special session on Youth in Twitter users clicked on by Southeast Asia tweeting about CIFOR’s facebook 2,182 followers • 16 regional journalists participated in the the Forests Asia Summit journalist training workshop
FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 ii Contents
Executive Summary i 1 Background 1 Forests Asia Summit by the numbers 2 List of Partners 4 2 Organizers and Partners 5 3 Summit Structure 7 4 Participants and Speakers 14 5 Outreach 25 6 Conference Outcome Statement 39 7 Capacity Building 40 8 Recognition of Sponsors and Funding Partners 44 9 Participant and Stakeholder Feedback 45 10 Annexes 48
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President, Indonesia delivers openingiii keynote address FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR 1 Background
Peter Holmgren, Director General, CIFOR and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President, Republic of Indonesia arrive to open the Forests Asia Summit Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
The Forests Asia Summit: Sustainable Landscapes Resolution on the Creation of a Green Economy to for Green Growth in Southeast Asia was convened Promote Sustainable Development. at a time when major global and regional processes are underway — processes that will influence the Against the backdrop of these important development pathways of the region. developments, the Forests Asia Summit sought to lay the foundations for new and continued At a global level, development and climate experts multi-stakeholder dialogue, transitions toward around the world are engaged in finalizing the sustainable investments, and further research to post-2015 development agenda and forging a support evidence-based policy making, all directed universal and legally binding climate agreement to toward achieving equitable green growth and more succeed the Kyoto Protocol. sustainable management of landscapes across Southeast Asia. At the regional level, state leaders across Southeast Asia are strengthening efforts to The Summit, held in Jakarta on 5–6 May 2014, was achieve regional integration under the framework co-hosted by the Center for International Forestry of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Research (CIFOR) and the Indonesian Ministry of (ASEAN) Community. At the same time, the Forestry, in collaboration with coordinating partner concepts of “green growth” and “green economy” Global Initiatives, seven supporting partners and are gaining prominence. Several Southeast Asian eight funding partners. The event built on the nations, including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, successes of the Global Landscapes Forum (2013), Philippines and Vietnam, have voluntarily six previous annual Forest Days (2007–2012) and the established targets to reduce greenhouse gas Forests Indonesia conference (2011), to provide a emissions and increase forest cover as part regional knowledge-sharing platform that brought of their development planning processes. together more than 2,200 representatives from To support similar shifts, in 2012, the ASEAN government, research, civil society and the private Inter-Parliamentary Assembly drew up a Draft sector, from across Southeast Asia and beyond.
FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 1 Forests Asia Summit by the numbers
High-level government ForestsAsia.org Twitter representatives At the Forests Asia Summit 79,807 14,288 head of state 1 Times forestasia.org Tweets sent about was visited the Forests Asia Summit Ministers and 12 Vice Ministers 20,957 3.87 Number of individuals that visited million 56 forestsasia.org Partner organizations involved, People reached including implementing partner, by tweets about the funding partners, supporting 216,044 Forests Asia Summit partners, session organizers and Pages that visitors read exhibitors on forestsasia.org 2,182 Number of contributors 120 on Twitter Number of speakers 4.9 million 2,200 People reached by Total participants Videos tweets by President Yudhoyono about the 6,026 Summit 6,064 Number of times Forests Views of the Forests Asia videos were viewed Asia Summit online on YouTube live stream
2 FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 Facebook Participant Media Feedback 355,632 160 Times stories about Forests 86% Number of journalists Asia were read on Facebook Percentage of and bloggers reporting participants who thought from the Summit that the Forests Asia 9,139 Summit was “successful” or “very successful” 343 Items discussed about Number of times the Forests Asia Summit Summit has been on Facebook – including shared items, likes, reposts, 71% cited in the media comments and click Participants who felt throughs familiar with the sustainable landscapes concept after the Summit (up from 46% at the start of the event) 69% Participants who felt Capacity familiar with the concepts of “green growth” and/or Building Presentation “green economy” after the slides Summit (up from 44% at the start of the event) 120 Number of participants who 17,348 attended Special Forests Asia presentations Session on Youth viewed online 16 317 Number of journalists Photos who took part in Total downloads of Forests journalist training Asia presentations 76,754 Number of times Forests 92 Asia photos were viewed Number of participants on flickr who took part in social media training
FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 3 List of Partners
Hosted by Host country partner Coordinating partner Center for International Ministry of Forestry, Global Initiatives Forestry Research Republic of Indonesia globalinitiatives.com cifor.org dephut.go.id
Funding partners
Fund
Supporting partners
KADIN Indonesia Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Media partners
Session organizers
ASEAN Social Forestry Network
Exhibitors
BAPPENAS
Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
Landscapes issues marketplace
Indonesia
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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The Center for International Forestry Research The support that the Ministry of Forestry provided (CIFOR) led the organization of the event. This began was instrumental to the Summit’s success, with the development of the Summit concept and particularly the preparation of personal invitations to program, and continued with the engagement forestry and environment ministers across the ASEAN of boundary partners – notably government, region, signed by the Indonesian Minister of Forestry inter-governmental organizations, civil society Zulkifli Hasan. The Ministry also led the Government organizations, research institutions and academic Steering Committee to: institutions – fundraising, speaker invitations and •• secure the support of President Susilo Bambang briefings, all outreach and communications activities, Yudhoyono for the Summit and logistical needs. •• assume responsibility over protocol procedures for VIP participants Throughout the process, CIFOR benefited from •• provide visa support for Summit participants considerable and invaluable support from its •• provide general advice on Summit program funding partners, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and speakers. as host country partner, and Global Initiatives as coordinating partner for the Summit. The Ministry of Forestry was prominent throughout the Summit itself. The Ministry hosted an exhibition table top and many high-level officials were included 2.1. Host Country Partner on the list of prestigious speakers, including: •• Hadi Daryanto, Secretary General, Ministry of The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, on behalf of Forestry the Government of Indonesia, was Host Country •• Tachrir Fathoni, Director General, Human Resource Partner for the Forests Asia Summit. CIFOR worked Development and Forestry Extension, FORDA particularly closely with the Forestry Research and •• Putera Phartama, Senior Advisor on Economic Development Agency (FORDA) under the Ministry Affairs and International Trade, FORDA of Forestry. •• Zahrul Muttaqin, Senior Researcher, FORDA
Peter Holmgren, Director General, CIFOR with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Minister Zulkifli Hasan, Minister of Forestry, Indonesia Photo by CIFOR
FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 5 Organizers and Partners
Satya Tripathi, Director of the United Nations Office for REDD+ Coordination (UNORCID) in Indonesia speaks at a Discussion Forum co-hosted by UNORCID, UN-REDD Programme and UNEP Photo by CIFOR
2.2. Coordinating Partner Summit among their networks and encouraged their members to actively participate at the Summit. CIFOR formed a partnership with Global Initiatives for the Forests Asia Summit to boost engagement with the private sector, given the sector’s prominent 2.3. Boundary Partners and long-lasting influence over the future of forested landscapes. To enhance the function of the Forests Asia Summit as a knowledge-sharing arena for sharing fresh Global Initiatives is a private company that uses research and best practices on sustainability among international events and media projects to promote organizations working in Southeast Asia, Summit partnership solutions to global challenges, with an organizers identified and contacted so-called emphasis on corporate environmental sustainability. “boundary partners” — those regional organizations The company’s events portfolio includes the Business whose research or development activities are relevant for the Environment Summit, Responsible Business to CIFOR’s work. Forum and the Sustainable Business Awards. To multiply the voices at the Summit, calls for For the Forests Asia Summit, Global Initiatives applications for Discussion Forums, the Landscapes leveraged a large network of private sector Issues Marketplace and Exhibition Table Tops were representatives across Southeast Asia; as a result, the advertised and promoted widely in an extensive business sector was represented on almost every outreach and communications campaign (see discussion panel at the Summit, which supported Section 5: Outreach). the organizers’ goal of convening a multi-stakeholder dialogue in which private sector views were heard Primary criteria for including organizations in the alongside insights from scientists and government event were the relevance of their work on any of the ministers. Participants included leaders from business five Summit themes (see Section 3: Summit Structure), of all sizes, including large-scale timber, pulp and their previous or potential collaboration with Summit paper, palm oil and consumer goods companies. organizers, and interactions at previous events.
Global Initiatives also secured the support of the A total of 56 boundary partners were actively involved Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Summit, including the host country partner, and the Indonesian Business Council for Sustainable coordinating partner, funding partners, supporting Development. These organizations promoted the partners, session organizers and exhibitors.
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3.1. Themes 2. Investing in landscapes for green returns: How can we guide the benefits of economic growth to The Forests Asia Summit was structured with the aim reinvest in sustainable landscapes and land use to of integrating knowledge and participants from the benefit investors and producers at all scales? forestry, agriculture and other land-based sectors in order to examine these sectors’ joint contribution 3. Climate change and low-emissions to broader development goals, under landscapes development on the ground: How can approaches. we promote low-emissions development in ways that meet the needs of communities in Content for the Forests Asia Summit was therefore landscapes and achieve verifiable emission organized into the following five themes, which reductions while generating opportunities for were synthesized into overarching questions to increased resilience to climate variability? guide session hosts and speakers in presenting and discussing information: 4. Forest landscapes for food and biodiversity: How are forests important for food systems, 1. Governance and legal frameworks to promote nutrition, health and biodiversity in sustainable landscapes: How can we better Southeast Asia? address land and corporate governance for effective social and environmental safeguards, 5. Changing communities, sustainable amid increasingly complex governance landscapes and equitable development: How structures? can we provide opportunities for smallholders to improve livelihoods? How do processes of migration, urbanization and multi-locality interact with landscapes?
Which of the Summit themes was most interesting for you?
Governance and legal frameworks to promote sustainable investments
21% Investing in landscapes 21% for green returns
Climate change and low emissions development on the ground 23% 14%
Forest landscapes for food and biodiversity 21%
Changing communities, sustainable landscapes and equitable development
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Participant survey responses (see Section 9: 3.2. Session Types Participant and Stakeholder Feedback) indicated that interest in the themes was quite evenly distributed, The Forests Asia Summit adopted the successful which was reflected in the actual attendance of format of previous events such as the Global theme-based sessions across the two days of Landscapes Forum, Forests Days and Forests the Summit. Indonesia, by featuring a mix of plenary sessions, keynote addresses, high-level panel discussions and discussion forums. The full Summit program is reproduced in Annex I.
Background Briefs Plenary sessions: High-level policy addresses, delivered by the Indonesian President and Ministers CIFOR drew on its expertise to produce a and Vice Ministers from Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei Background Brief for each of the five themes and Philippines, highlighted the achievements of the Forests Asia Summit (www.forestsasia. and ongoing challenges of sustainable landscape org/briefs). Feedback was also sought from management in their respective countries. These CIFOR’s stakeholders, many of whom were speeches provided the audience with an overview of session hosts or speakers. The Background endeavors underway throughout Southeast Asia to Briefs synthesized existing knowledge and transition to a “green economy”. highlighted policy needs, research gaps and the role of different stakeholder groups in tackling sustainability challenges across The Summit provided an Southeast Asia. excellent update of political Ahead of the event, the Background Briefs attitudes towards forests were emailed to Summit speakers and as expressed by high-level session hosts. They were uploaded to Ministers. the Forests Asia website, with prominent signposting, promoted in email blasts to participants and summarized in the Summit NGO representative program book. CIFOR introduced this tool Feedback taken from the Forests Asia Summit participant survey for this event as a means of providing context to each focus area and hence inform and enhance discussions at the Summit. The Opening plenary panel discussions: The aim of Background Briefs were very well received these sessions was to set out overarching concepts by Summit participants and, at the time of and approaches to frame the debates that would writing, had been downloaded from the take place throughout the event. Day 1 focused Forests Asia website a total of 2,804 times on the concept and practice of “green growth” in (Source: AWStats). Southeast Asia, and Day 2 looked at collaborative approaches to resolving sustainability challenges.
The briefing papers were Crystal Davis, Senior excellent, and really helped Manager, Global to raise awareness in Forests Watch, World Resources Institute advance of the meetings. joins the plenary panel discussion Academic/researcher on ‘Collaborative Feedback taken from the Forests Asia approaches to resolving sustainability Summit participant survey challenges’ Photo by CIFOR
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Discussion Forums: Day 1 featured 18 parallel sought to provide a space in which participants Discussion Forums, in which panelists and could learn more about two cross-cutting issues that participants explored specific topics and research pose pressing challenges to the region’s forestry and questions under each of the five Summit themes. land-use sectors: 1) the fire and haze crisis and 2) the The Discussion Forums served to give a space to reality and challenges facing forestry education and boundary partners in Southeast Asia whose research research in Asia. and development activities offered insight into the opportunities and lessons learned on specific High-level panel discussions: The five panel national and regional challenges, from various discussions on Day 2 covered each of the five perspectives. Summit themes. These sessions extended the ideas presented in the Background Briefs and Discussion The Discussion Forums resonated well with Summit Forums, to enable participants to further articulate participants: survey respondents confirmed that they and explore solutions and future pathways. Survey found these sessions most valuable to them. responses indicated that these thematic high-level panels were the most valuable type of sessions for Lunchtime learning events: Two parallel learning participants after the Discussion Forums. events took place during lunch on Day 1. Organizers
There are successful projects and helpful research being (carried out). I’ve been hearing a lot of ‘gloom and doom’ stories so it was nice to hear that some groups have been very successful. Academic/researcher Feedback taken from the Forests Asia Summit participant survey
Peter Kanowski, Senior Associate, CIFOR leads a roundtable discussion during a Discussion Forum hosted by The Forests Dialogue looking at the changing outlooks for food, fuel, fiber and forests in Indonesia Photo by CIFOR
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Jatna Supriatna, Chair, Indonesian Chapter of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network makes his intervention on the high level panel, ‘Changing communities, sustainable landscapes and equitable development.’ He is joined by moderator Grace Wong, Senior Scientist, CIFOR and panelists Tint Lwin Thaung, Executive Director, RECOFTC; Joan Carling, Secretary General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact; Parmaningsih Hadinegoro, Vice President Corporate Secretary, Danone Aqua. Photo by CIFOR
Keynote addresses: Keynote addresses delivered by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Knowledge sharing Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Mark Burrows, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Global Summit organizers encouraged session hosts Investment Banking, Credit Suisse, reflected on to use knowledge-sharing tools and methods challenges and opportunities for climate change to enable participatory and interactive mitigation and adaptation and investment in exchanges, and to create an environment sustainable landscapes, respectively. Manuel Pulgar- of trust that enables mutual learning. CIFOR Vidal, Minister of Environment for Peru and President distributed a guide on knowledge-sharing of COP20, used his keynote address to reiterate techniques to all session hosts and CIFOR’s the importance of concluding an effective and Knowledge Sharing Officer provided practical participatory international climate agreement in advice tailored to session content and needs. which forests are prominent.
Landscapes Issues Marketplace Exhibition Table Tops In response to overwhelmingly positive feedback The Forests Asia Summit exhibition provided space from participants at Forest Days (annual events for 22 organizations to hold tabletop displays in a held 2007–2012), Summit organizers set aside a central space where they were visited by a large 90-minute window on Day 2 for semi-structured number of people throughout both days. Many networking and discussions. At the Landscapes boundary partners hosted exhibition stands at Issues Marketplace, attendees moved freely between the Summit. presentations in which 10 organizations showcased their latest research, thinking and experiences on specific topics related to the Summit themes.
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Louis Verchot, Director, Forests and Environment Research, CIFOR moderates the panel discussion on the role of the private sector in delivering green growth. Panelists included Aida Greenbury, Managing Director, Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, Asia Pulp and Paper and Ben Ridley, Asia-Pacific Head, Public Policy - Sustainability Affairs, Credit Suisse Photo by CIFOR
Engaging with the private I felt inspired and motivated sector by the finance folks who In keeping with efforts to engage with made clear that we need to business, two sessions focused on the find ways to make it easier private sector were held: Breakfast for the private sector to Roundtable Business Dialogue on invest some of their trillions Sustainable Agriculture and Improving Rural Livelihoods and a plenary panel of dollars in sustainable on The Role of the Private Sector in landscapes. Delivering Green Growth. Government representative Feedback taken from the Forests Asia Summit participant survey If the private sector is not involved then we can’t get commitments. It was This is the first time impressive to see this, and I have heard serious impressive to see this across discussion regarding the the region. I have never been role of private sector at a forum where [private finance at a CIFOR event. sector engagement] came Congratulations. Excellent. out so strongly before. Keep it up! It is crucial. Funding partner NGO representative Feedback provided as part of an Feedback taken from independent evaluation of the the Forests Asia Summit Forests Asia Summit participant survey
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3.3. High-level bilateral and Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC multilateral meetings COP20), and Dr. Pachauri, IPCC Chair. Attendees were Ministers and Vice Ministers from each country delegation, business executives and funding partners. Given the prominence and attendance of high- level government officials, the Forests Asia Summit At the luncheon, Minister Pulgar-Vidal and Dr. provided an ideal opportunity to convene bilateral Pachauri briefed key policy makers and decision and multilateral meetings between the region’s makers on the status of the climate negotiations, leading development experts and policy makers. ahead of COP20 in Lima. Southeast Asian Ministers Summit organizers facilitated numerous high-level and senior government officials gave their ideas on meetings to take place on the sidelines of the where the focus of COP20 should lie and how they conference. These included meetings between could contribute to the climate change conference Ministers from different country delegations, and in Lima. Ministerial meetings with Dr. Pachauri, IPCC Chair. VIP dinner High-level roundtable luncheon On 5 May, CIFOR hosted an invitation-only dinner for Among the most notable multilateral meeting was a 90 VIP participants, including Ministers, Dr. Pachauri, high-level roundtable luncheon held on 6 May. The funding partners, CEOs, NGO leaders and others. This luncheon was co-hosted by Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, event provided a valuable opportunity for high-level Minister of Environment, Peru and President of the networking and socializing. 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio, Undersecretary, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines and Minister Pulgar- Vidal, Minister of Environment, Peru meet on the sidelines of the Forests Asia Summit Photo by CIFOR
In a bilateral meeting with Myanmar, which is just starting to be more open, we discovered that they would like to learn from Indonesia, especially on certification. I think that there is a good possibility that Indonesia will engage in bilateral cooperation with Myanmar and the conference further developed existing interest in bilateral cooperation – part of the objective of the Summit for us was to do this. Government representative Feedback provided as part of an independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
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In a bilateral meeting with Singapore, we talked about the haze issue and we had a chance to talk frankly. We identified a need to work together and put divisions to one side. Government representative Feedback provided as part of an independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
My organization formed small working groups involving CSOs to discuss the sustainable landscape theory. This was a good opportunity to share my organization’s thoughts. After the summit we met for a working group discussion with CSOs to formalize their approach to influencing Rachmat Witoelar, Executive Chair, Indonesian National Indonesian forest policy. Council on Climate Change and former State Minister for Environment talks to delegates before the start of a high-level NGO representative roundtable luncheon at the Summit Feedback provided as part of an independent Photo by CIFOR evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
Minister Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of Environment, Peru and UNFCCC COP20 President (right) and Rajendra Pachauri, Chair, IPCC (left) host high- level roundtable lunch with Southeast Asian Ministers, business executives and funding partners Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 13 4 Participants and Speakers
4.1. Participants To get a realistic estimate of the number of participants for logistical and food and beverage The original target for the number of participants considerations, Summit organizers asked for a $100 at the Forests Asia Summit was 1,000–1,500 people. entry fee for general participants. A subsidized However, a total of 2,294 people had registered fee of $25 was provided for developing country before the event. This registration number is citizens and students, and entry was free for UN and consistent with the actual number of attendees. government officials from Asia. To ensure costs did not preclude participation, needs-based entry was Throughout the two days, at least 2,200 participants granted on a case-by-case basis. Ultimately, large numbers of complimentary passes were given, attended: 1,800 on 5 May and 1,200 on 6 May. It is common for attendance to fall on the second particularly for developing-country participants, day of an event; the fact that such high numbers students, researchers, representatives of civil society were sustained throughout the two days indicates organizations and local community organizations, a genuine interest and commitment on the part of and Summit partners, speakers and session hosts. registrants. To reach regional stakeholders, personal invitations The event attracted participants from all target were extended to local government officials and stakeholder groups. Policy makers comprised the forestry professors from across Indonesia, along with largest single stakeholder group, followed by non- financial support for their attendance at the Summit. governmental and civil society groups, private sector, Although the intention was to do the same for local international organizations, academia and the media. groups across the Southeast Asian region, limited Women made up 44% of all participants, reflecting conference funds restricted this opportunity. organizers’ efforts during planning and outreach to achieve gender balance.
Breakdown of attendees Breakdown of attendees by institution type by region
Bilateral development cooperation 3% Other Unknown 2% Africa Research institute 1% 17% 6% North and Media Government South America 32% 8% 3% Europe University 3% 10%
International Asia Paci c Organization and Australia 11% Non- 76% governmental Private sector 16% 12%
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Breakdown of attendees by registration type
Summit partners, speakers UN / Asian and session hosts government o cials 30% 23%
Needs-based complimentary entry: civil society, local community groups, developing country citizens, Journalist/Media academia, students 7% 13%
General participants CIFOR 8% 11% Developing country citizens and students 8%
4.2. Engagement of played a significant role in planning the event and in securing the attendance and support of the highest- Stakeholders in Conference level government officials in Indonesia, including the Design President, Minister of Forestry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of the Ministry of Forestry To ensure the Forests Asia Summit addressed and Acting Director General of FORDA. regionally relevant policy and research questions, CIFOR sought considerable input from key From December to February, CIFOR made visits and stakeholders. presentations to forestry and environment ministries in Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, Stakeholder Advisory Committees were established Lao PDR and Thailand. These efforts resulted in the for Funding Partners and Civil Society Organizations, attendance of high-level government officials from which met in October and December 2013, every ASEAN member state (Annex II) . Thailand and respectively. The Committees provided invaluable Malaysia did not have minister-level delegates, but advice on Summit themes, key questions, and were represented by senior forestry officials; Thailand partner organizations and high-level speakers sent a delegation of 11 forestry officials. to involve, and supported the promotion of the conference to their networks and communities. In the three months leading up to the conference, CIFOR emailed, faxed and hand-delivered Advice was also sought from a Steering Committee personal invitations to 1,387 senior government of the Indonesian Government, led by the Ministry of officials, CEOs, leading academics and directors Forestry and comprising the State Secretariat and the of intergovernmental, nongovernmental and civil Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Steering Committee society organizations.
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4.3. Speaker Program and The world is at a turning point… Highlights Decisions are to be made on the international arena over the next 18 months that may shape our The high profile nature of the common future for generations event was commended widely. to come. Respondents felt that a significant amount of credibility and exposure Peter Holmgren CIFOR Director General was given to the technical content as a result, and that decision making and commitment would The welcome set the tone for a series of high- be possible, due to the presence level regional policy addresses, beginning with an of the President of Indonesia, emphatic opening keynote address delivered by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. regional government ministers President Yudhoyono reflected on the actions and a wide range of high-level taken by his administration to protect his country’s participants from donors and forests but, acknowledging that “more remains to be intergovernmental actors such done”, urged his successor to extend a ban on the issuance of new logging licenses and called upon as the IPCC and the UN governments across Southeast Asia to steer clear of a “self-destructing path of development” in favor of Excerpt from an independent sustainable land-use and investment practices. evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit President Yudhoyono’s call to action was echoed by ministers from Myanmar and Singapore in the opening plenary of the first day. Myanmar Union The Forests Asia Summit featured a lineup of Minister of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, prestigious speakers that included the President U Win Tun affirmed his country’s “full commit[ment] of Indonesia, Forestry and Environment Ministers, to climate change mitigation and sustainable forest Vice Ministers and Directors from 9 of the 10 ASEAN management”, called for enabling policies to scale up countries , the Peruvian Minister of Environment and existing solutions for green growth, and highlighted UNFCCC COP20 President, Chair of the IPCC, and Vice the need to promote technological innovation and to Chair of a leading global investment bank. narrow the development gap among ASEAN states.
Organizers of the Summit made every effort to ensure that the program gave space to high-level Individual countries cannot policy makers, technical experts and practitioners, overcome interconnected and that speakers were equally distributed across countries, stakeholder groups and gender. problems such as extreme poverty, hunger, economic In his welcoming address, CIFOR Director General instability, social inequality and Peter Holmgren noted the significance of the timing, environmental degradation. pointing to the critical decisions affecting the future that are to be made by the world’s climate and development leaders on the post-2015 development U Win Tun agenda and a legally binding and universal climate Union Minister of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, agreement: “Forests and landscapes in Asia are a Myanmar critical part of that future,” he said.
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What we do today is not for our own benefit. It is for the billions of people who will inherit our Earth. … I signed a moratorium to protect more than 63 million hectares of primary forests and peat lands. I hope my successor can prolong this moratorium.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President, Republic of Indonesia
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We have a problem with transboundary haze. The root of this problem is misaligned commercial interests... If we continue on this trajectory, all of us are in trouble.
Vivian Balakrishnan Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore
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Singaporean Minister for the Environment and Water Brunei will… commit to… limit Resources Vivian Balakrishnan used the haze crisis as a key reference point, and called for a realignment our agricultural production to of interests, greater transparency, and stronger law no more than one percent of enforcement to prevent fires in Indonesia. our land areas.
This sense of urgency was carried through to the Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar second day of the Summit. In the Opening Plenary, Minister of Industry and Primary Peruvian Minister of Environment and UNFCCC COP20 Resources, Brunei Darussalam President , Manuel Pulgar-Vidal called for forestry to be at the core of any future climate change agreement and for forest-related indicators to be part of the post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reforestation is no longer the exclusive domain of our We should be very clear that we Ministry. It is now a convergence are not going to repeat Kyoto. program among [the Ministry of] Now we are going to have a Environment and Natural Resources, bottom up agreement, in which Agriculture, agrarian reform, local everybody can recognize their government, education and other own responsibilities…. agencies. We believe that we are now on the road to sustainable We need to put closer the landscapes with this convergence. forestry discussion in all [these] big debates: the post 2015 Demetrio Ignacio debate, the SDGs, the TEEB, Undersecretary of the Department of Environment and the green economy among Natural Resources, Philippines many others.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Keynote addresses delivered by Dr. Rajendra. Minister of Environment, Peru and UNFCCC COP20 President Pachauri, Chair of the IPCC, and Mark Burrows, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Global Investment Banking, Credit Suisse, reflected on the challenges of addressing climate change mitigation The Brunei Minister of Industry and Primary and adaptation but were largely optimistic about Resources, Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar committed to present opportunities in policy, development “limit agricultural production to no more than one and finance. Dr. Pachauri insisted that the cost of percent of our land areas” while working to improve mitigation “is really very low,” explaining that the “loss agricultural yields for greater food security. The in consumption per year globally would be no more Philippines Undersecretary of the Department of than 0.06 percent of the global GDP”. Environment and Natural Resources, Demetrio Ignacio pointed to the landscapes approach in the country’s Mark Burrows argued that different stakeholder ‘National Greening Program’, under which 1.5 billion groups trying to achieve the common goal of trees will be planted across the Phillippines - the sustainable development need to overcome a biggest reforestation program in the country’s history. “perception gap”. He claimed that the amount of private capital available for green growth initiatives
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The path we have to follow is very clear if the world wants to limit the temperature increase to two degrees Celsius… And that, in a sense, should be seen as an opportunity rather than ... a burden to different societies across the globe.
Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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There are signs that the financial market can be realigned to channel capital into the green economy… The really good news is this capital - an estimated $225 trillion - already exists at a staggering scale… We need political investment to unlock private investment.
Mark Burrows Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Global Investment Banking, Credit Suisse
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such as “green bonds” is more than adequate, but Shinta Kamdani, Vice Chair of Environment, Climate that lack of political will has blocked investors from Change and Sustainable Development at the unleashing much-needed finances. Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry pledged to build the capacity of businesses to Experts also identified challenges across the Summit support low emissions and equitable development, themes of “Food and Biodiversity” and “Equitable and provide actionable recommendations to policy Development”. Lesley Potter from the Crawford makers. Bustar Maitar, Global Head Indonesia Forest School of Public Policy at the Australian National Campaign of Greenpeace International, argued University criticized the ‘Indomie-zation’ of local diets that the private sector no longer has any excuse as traditional and diverse sources of nutrition are not to move to sustainable practices, as more and abandoned. more businesses commit to “no-deforestation” policies. Sarah Dickson-Hoyle of the International Forestry Students Association called for a landscapes It is time perhaps that people approach in education and for more initiatives to in Indonesia and other parts of build the capacity of youth. Stig Traavik, Norwegian Ambassador to Indonesia, touched upon the need Southeast Asia looked at what to move away from “silo-ized” funding. With regard their forests can produce, what to the Norwegian government’s support for REDD+ the indigenous foods are, and in Indonesia, Ambassador Traavik said that “We are committed to stay the course … 95% of the funding [their nutritious] value. is available for [Indonesia’s] incoming government.”
Lesley Potter In all, 120 speakers and moderators took part in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Forests Asia Summit including the following: Australian National University. •• Ola Elvestuen, Head of Parliamentary Committee for Energy and Environment, Norway •• Akhom Tounalom, Vice Minister of Natural Joan Carling, Secretary General of the Asia Resources and Environment, Lao PDR Indigenous Peoples Pact, pointed out some of the •• Ty Sokhun, Secretary of State, Ministry of challenges associated with the term ‘equitable Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia development’. •• Nguyen Ba Ngai, Deputy Director, Viet Nam Administration of Forestry Speakers in the closing plenary session reflected •• Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory on the discussions throughout the two days and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador and identified further commitments to new and •• Franky Widjaja, Chair and CEO, Golden Agri- continued multi-stakeholder dialogue, research and Resources investments in sustainable landscapes. Referring •• Nur Masripatin, Coordinator, ASEAN Regional to the need for an integrated, holistic approach to Knowledge Network on Forests and Climate climate change and sustainable growth with equity, Change Heru Prasetyo, Head of the Indonesian REDD+ •• Rukka Sombolinggi, Deputy to Secretary Agency, said that it was “time now to converge General on Advocacy, Legal and Politics, Aliansi again,” adding that a synergy of people, technology, Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) knowledge, goods and sustainable investments is “an •• Puja Sawhney, Coordinator, Regional Hub for Asia integral part of the analysis on landscapes.” Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) •• Hilde Jervan, Chief Advisor, Council on Ethics for Rodrigo Chaves, Country Director for Indonesia at the Norwegian Government Pension Fund the World Bank also affirmed that, “No particular •• Cristina Eghenter, Deputy Director for Social dimension of the solution regarding forests and Development, WWF Indonesia landscapes can be tackled by one institution, one •• Tint Lwin Thaung, Executive Director, RECOFTC individual, private sector alone. It is a system that moves together.
22 FORESTS ASIA SUMMIT 2014 When we talk of ‘equitable’ development, it is really [about] addressing the needs of the poorest of the poor, women, children and the elderly… Equitable development should be consistent with the recognition, respect…and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities especially in regard to land tenure and use of natural resources.
Joan Carling Secretary General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Photo by CIFOR by Photo Participants and Speakers
We are completely convinced that for the long term… sustainability criteria makes a lot of business sense.
Felia Salim Vice President Director, Bank Negara Indonesia
In the panel discussion on the role of the private sector, Felia Salim, Vice President Director, Bank Negara Indonesia affirms that there is widespread support for ‘green growth’ but calls for further incentive mechanisms to support small and medium sized enterprises to implement sustainability measures. Photo by CIFOR
The fact that such high profile speakers took part in the event speaks a lot for the event – People tend to listen to these [high profile speakers] and it showed the commitment of the governments to the issues – pulling off an event like this is good for the image of CIFOR and what CIFOR is doing came across well in the summit.
Funding partner Feedback provided as part of an independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
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The communication and social media support for the summit was highlighted as a stand-out aspect Excerpt from an independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
5.1. Overview 5.2. Summit Website
CIFOR implemented an extensive, dynamic and A website specifically created for the Forests varied outreach and communications campaign Asia Summit, www.forestsasia.org, was created designed to multiply the reach and audience of and launched in January 2014. The Forests Asia the Forests Asia Summit beyond the conference site provided not only Summit information — venue itself. program, speakers, updates, contact information, Background Briefs — but also related content in the In the lead-up to the Summit, key communications form of blogs, research highlights, videos, photos, tools used included the following: presentations and related events. The conference website used a responsive design for easy reading on •• A dedicated event website, www.forestsasia.org, mobile devices. used to disseminate news and information on the program, speakers and research, and stimulate From the date of the site’s launch until the time of thinking through blogs and multimedia writing, forestsasia.org was visited 79,807 times by 20,957 people viewing 216,044 pages. •• Infographics, designed not only to raise awareness of the Summit, but also to disseminate The wealth of content produced served to generate key research messages to frame conference online discussions around conference topics, discussions with audiences posting 264 comments across all website pages. •• Photo competition, designed to attract attention to the Summit and direct traffic to the website Following the conference, the site became a repository of all content from the Summit, including •• Public Service Announcements in Indonesian the outcome statement, videos of all speeches and print and online news publications that have a sessions, blog articles, videos, interviews, photos and total readership in excess of 30 million people, as PowerPoint presentations. well as on local television and radio stations
•• Email and newsletter blasts to CIFOR’s own 5.3. Live streaming networks and the communities of CIFOR’s boundary partners. Live web streaming of all plenary sessions and many of the parallel sessions enabled audiences who were The Summit itself was streamed live over the Internet unable to attend the event in Jakarta to view and and covered extensively through social media, blogs participate in discussions remotely. Over the two and mainstream press outlets. days, 15 sessions were live streamed and attracted
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Since its launch, the Forests Asia Summit website has seen 79,807 visits by 20,957 people viewing 216,044 pages. The Summit website co-hosted the live stream of the event which attracted a total of 6,064 views
6,064 viewers via forestsasia.org and Kompas.com (a major news outlet and one of the Summit’s media This was the best use of social partners). media that I have ever seen at a sector event. Budget and technical restrictions meant that, during parallel sessions, only a single session could be Funding partner live streamed at a time. Sessions were selected for Feedback provided as part of an independent broadcast according to registrants’ interests and evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit in order to achieve fair representation of Summit themes and partners. the inclusion of stakeholders unable to attend the event. In terms of numbers and impact, the results of Through live streaming, the conference reached this campaign surpassed those of CIFOR’s previous audiences outside of Indonesia, with the largest global events, even though the Summit’s regional online audiences in the following countries: the focus and time zone might have attracted less United States, the United Kingdom, Peru, Germany, attention. Australia, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.
5.4.1. Blogs 5.4. Social Media Campaign Blog articles were a key feature of the social media campaign for the Forests Asia Summit. At the time CIFOR marshaled its largest-ever social media of writing, a total of 135 blog posts have been campaign to promote messages from the Summit published onto the conference website (www.cifor. before, during and after the event, and to encourage org/forestsasia/category/blogs/).
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135 blogs were published onto the Forests Asia Summit website
Leading up to the conference, CIFOR leveraged end, including videos and transcripts of keynote and posted 12 new articles about CIFOR research speeches. At least 12 more CIFOR Forests News relevant to Summit topics. These were supplemented articles were posted in the weeks immediately by 20 blogs written around Summit speakers and following the Summit, many of which included session hosts, all of which were designed to tease video interviews. A separate webpage is being built audience interest by highlighting conference to serve as a repository of all Summit-related articles topics and regional challenges to be addressed at on Forests News. the Summit. CIFOR introduced a new “A Chat With” formula for shorter Q+A-style with speakers, which Many articles also reached hundreds of thousands added variety to the stories produced. Organizations more readers globally when they were republished hosting sessions were offered the opportunity to on other websites, such as Reuters Alertnet, share stories, including previously produced content Eco-business.com, Mongabay and aggregated from their own websites. Roughly one article was Google News. published every day in the weeks leading up to the Summit. This ensured an abundance of material for Another 37 blogs were posted on the Forests Asia sharing through social media networks. website written by members of the Forests Asia volunteer social media team brought together Eight articles were posted to CIFOR’s Forests News by CGIAR Social Media Specialist and Forests Asia (blog.cifor.org) within a day of the conference’s Summit Social Media Coordinator, Peter Casier.
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213 photos submitted for the photo competition received 27,943 votes online and brought 52% of total visitors to the Summit website in April
5.4.2. Photo Competition raised awareness of aspects of forests and landscapes CIFOR ran a photo competition between 26 February in Southeast Asia, but also served to promote the and 17 April. Amateur photographers were invited to Forests Asia Summit. Immediately following the submit photographs of the forests and landscapes launch of the photo competition, views of the of Southeast Asia. Winners were selected through conference website increased by 156% and the online voting via the conference website and number of visitors to the site increased by 141%. In social media, and selection by a jury comprising April, 52% of total visits to the conference website representatives from CIFOR, the Indonesian Ministry could be attributed to the photo competition, as of Forestry and Global Initiatives. audiences were drawn in from social media platforms promoting the competition. The photo competition In total, 213 photos that met the criteria were was the most visited page on the conference submitted, attracting 27,943 votes online. website, following the homepage, agenda and Submissions and winners can be found at www.cifor. registration pages. org/forestsasia/photo-competition-evaluation/jurys- choice/ 5.4.3. Infographics CIFOR developed three infographics on REDD+ and Winning photos were displayed at the Forests the Southeast Asian haze crisis, which were to be Asia Summit and published in the Jakarta Globe heavily featured at the Forests Asia Summit. These newspaper. The winning photographer received a infographics were designed to raise awareness of US$500 grant. key research messages and questions that would be addressed at the event. This was the first time CIFOR had used a photo competition as a communications tool. It not only
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An infographic about the fire and haze crisis in Southeast Asia was read 30,416 times on CIFOR’s facebook page, and was liked, shared, commented and clicked on 604 times by facebook users
5.4.4. Twitter and inspired others to retweet and tweet about the Twitter was used to drive the social media campaign conference. for the Forests Asia Summit, by pushing out information and stimulating conversations around Live tweets were also sent from the accounts of the conference and conference topics using the senior government officials and Ministries, including hashtag #ForestsAsia. President Yudhoyono’s Special Staff for International Affairs (SKP Bidang HI), the Singaporean Minister of After the launch of the social media campaign Environment and Water Resources and the Peruvian in February, 14,288 tweets were sent by Ministry of Environment. 2,182 contributors, reaching 3.87 million unique Twitter followers. Beyond simply using the #ForestsAsia hashtag, social media reporters were encouraged to engage in During the Summit, 7,999 #ForestsAsia tweets conversations with each other – through re-tweets were sent by 1,064 contributors, reaching and mentions – while also drawing in users outside 2,450,494 unique Twitter users. of the conference’s traditional partner network. The aim of this approach was to not only create hubs of The figures could be higher if tweets that referred to discussions around Summit topics between Twitter the Summit without using the #ForestsAsia hashtag users, but also expand the reach and influence of the were included. A prominent example of this would event to less familiar yet important stakeholders. be tweets sent by Indonesian President S usilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose re-tweets and Twitter As a result, the use of Twitter generated traffic following of 4.9 million users added tremendously around the event that was three to four times higher to the reach of the Summit on the social media than normal, and caused many users outside of platform. An analysis of the Twitter network indicates CIFOR’s boundary partners to repeat and spread that, numbers aside, the President’s tweet played CIFOR’s and the Summit’s key messages. a key role in generating interest in the Twitterverse
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President Yudhoyono’s tweet reached 4.9 million twitter followers, was retweeted 275 times and generated a hub of discussions around the Forests Asia Summit on twitter
Live tweets from President Yuhdoyono’s Special Staff for International Affairs, Singapore’s Minister for Environment and Natural Resources and Peru’s Ministry of Environment carried the momentum of the Forests Asia Summit on the social media network, Twitter
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5.4.5. Facebook 5.4.6. Storify Facebook was used to promote the Forests Asia Thirty-one session summaries, covering the Summit Summit through posts highlighting blog articles, program, were published on the Forests Asia Storify sessions, infographics, presentations and other page (https://storify.com/forestsasia) immediately multimedia before, during and after the event. 136 following the conference. At the time of writing, Forests Asia posts were viewed a total of 355,632 the Storify summaries had been viewed 1,613 times times across CIFOR’s main Facebook page and the in total. CIFOR Indonesia Facebook page. As an indication of Facebook users’ engagement with Summit topics, conference-related posts were liked, shared, 5.5. Podcasts commented on and clicked through 9,139 times; the most popular types of posts were those relating Nine interviews with Summit speakers, moderators to Public Service Announcements (Annex III), Youth and participants from the Youth Session were session blogs, PowerPoint presentations, and an op- published on the ForestsAsia Podcast channel ed by CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren that (http://forestsasia.podomatic.com/). At the time appeared on Kompas.com. of writing, these podcasts had been downloaded 208 times in total.
136 Forests Asia stories posted on CIFOR’s facebook pages were read 355,632 times and were liked, shared, commented on and clicked on 9,139 times.
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Summaries of all sessions at the Forests Asia Summit shared on Storify garnered 1,613 views
•• Joan Carling, Secretary General, Asia Indigenous 5.6. Videos Peoples Pact •• Myrta Kaulard, Country Director for Indonesia, Two promotional videos were produced prior to World Food Programme the conference: one in English and one in Bahasa •• Tint Lwin Thaung, Executive Director, RECOFTC Indonesia. At the conference, each of the Summit’s •• Swe Set, Land Core Group Myanmar 30+ forums, sessions and speeches was recorded. •• Lesley Potter, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Video interviews made on the sidelines of the •• Crystal Davis, Senior Manager, Global Forest conference were also produced. To improve the Watch, World Resources Institute depth of content, several interviews were conducted •• Kim Carstensen, Executive Director, Forest as conversations between a CIFOR scientist and an Stewardship Council expert. Interviewees included: •• Alistair Monument, Asia Director, Forest Stewardship Council •• Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair, IPCC •• Kanchi Kohli, Independent Research on •• Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of Environment, Environment, Forest and Biodiversity, Governance Peru and President, UNFCCC COP20 •• Moriz Vohrer, Technical Director Land-use and •• Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO of GIST Forests, The Gold Standard Foundation Advisory •• Andrea Bassi, green economy expert and Founder In total, 51 videos were produced and at the time and CEO of KnowlEdge Srl of writing, these had been viewed 6,026 times. All •• Felia Salim, Vice President Director, Bank Negara videos were uploaded to the conference website and Indonesia CIFOR’s YouTube channel (http://goo.gl/vjzFkU).
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Jacob Phelps, Scientist, CIFOR speaks to Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador about how to achieve green growth in Southeast Asia.
The challenge is: how do we align policies, prices, institutions… in order to make this fundamental trade off between private [wealth] and public [natural resource] wealth work to the better of humanity? Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory
5.7. Presentations 5.9. Email Blasts
In total, 52 PowerPoint presentations from the CIFOR produced 19 unique email “blasts” sent to Summit’s Discussion Forums and Learning Events CIFOR’s contact list, registered participants and were uploaded to the conference website and media, before, during and after the Summit. In total, SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/cifor). At the with announcements tailored to specific audiences time of writing, these presentations had been viewed and languages, 33 individual email blasts were 17,348 times and were downloaded 317 times. sent. These announcements alerted participants to upcoming sessions and press events prior to the event and highlighted key outcomes from the 5.8. Photos conference following the Summit’s end. The full list of email announcements is outlined in Annex IV. More than 200 photos from the Summit’s multiple sessions and side events were uploaded to the Shortly after the event, a Forests Asia Summit: Special conference website and CIFOR Flickr account News Update, which listed all content coming out (http://goo.gl/xw5h1v). At the time of writing, these of the conference, was sent to 26,728 subscribers on had been viewed 76,754 times. All photos are free for CIFOR’s News Update listserv, including all conference public use under the Creative Commons license. participants. This update is reproduced in Annex V.
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5.10. Leveraging Existing In the three months leading up to the conference, Networks Summit announcements were also sent to several listservs hosted by the boundary partners of Summit organizers. To maximize impact and In the weeks leading up to the conference, Summit attention, these announcements were tailored to organizers sent weekly updates to session hosts the specific members of each list. Nine audience- to promote new social media content produced specific announcements were produced, including by CIFOR, session hosts and boundary partners, as for business and investment, policy, the poverty– well as social media reporters. Content included environment nexus, climate change, REDD+, water blogs, research publications and presentations. This and landscapes. approach not only communicated the key messages of the conference, but it also encouraged session Table 1 summarizes the listservs targeted by CIFOR’s hosts to actively contribute to the conference’s communications team and their approximate reach, outreach and communications campaign. where known.
Table 1: Forests Asia Summit announcements were shared among multiple listservs, reaching thousands of subscribers
List Reach The Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership 700 UN Country Team Indonesia; UN Climate Change Working Group Indonesia More than 100 heads of UN agencies FAO Newsletter Landscapes for People Food and Nature Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry IISD Climate-L 30,000 IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin 10,000 IISD Forests-L 15,000 IISD Land-L 10,000 IISD Biodiversity-L 15,000 IISD Water-L 15,000 RECOFTC Newsletter DevEx Newsletter 200,000 Demeter Newsletter 800 Global Initiatives Newsletter 2,000 World Business Council for Sustainable Development Asia Business Council for Sustainable Development Indonesia 17 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development China 74 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development Malaysia 62 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development Korea 43 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development Thailand 38 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development Vietnam 35 companies Business Council for Sustainable Development Singapore 5 founding members
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5.11. International Institute for Television Sustainable Development (IISD) In a separate partnership with Kompas TV, the Summary Report television arm of Kompas, CIFOR created a public service announcement that ran on Kompas TV. Kompas TV also hosted the live-stream of the CIFOR also employed IISD Conference Reporting Summit on its website. Services to record key messages and outcomes from the Summit. IISD produced an 11-page report that 2. Green Radio was hosted on a dedicated webpage on the IISD site A popular radio station across Indonesia that (http://goo.gl/I93Oo0). At the time of writing, the focuses on social and environmental issues, Green report had been downloaded 7,642 times. Radio broadcast: -- Brief public service announcements The Summit report was further disseminated via ahead of the Forests Asia Summit. These email to 28,379 subscribers through the Earth announcements aired 236 times over a period Negotiations Bulletin list; 11,334 subscribers through of more than a month. the Forests-L list; and 2,543 subscribers through the -- Green Radio also broadcast two interviews Land-L list. with Indonesian scientists about the themes of the conference. 5.12. Media CIFOR provided Green Radio with a stage at the Summit venue from which to conduct short 5.12.1. Media Partnerships interviews with speakers and conference participants. CIFOR entered into media partnerships with three major media organizations in Indonesia to promote 3. Berita Satu the messages of the Forests Asia Summit through Berita Satu, one of Indonesia’s largest media public service announcements, interviews and op- conglomerates, agreed on a wide-ranging eds. All three media outlets received publicity via advertising and media coverage partnership their logos on Summit literature, and were provided worth more than USD 220,000. The partnership with booths at the Summit venue. Journalists from saw CIFOR messages distributed via numerous each outlet covered the Summit, and each outlet subsidiary outlets. was permitted to register its staff for free. Journalists from each outlet participated in CIFOR’s journalist The Jakarta Globe training workshop (see Section 7: Capacity Building). For CIFOR, one of Jakarta’s leading English-language newspapers with an approximate daily circulation of 1. Kompas 40,000 readers: Newspaper •• Published five CIFOR-produced public service Kompas is Indonesia’s largest and most respected announcements. newspaper, with a daily circulation of about •• Ran a banner ad leading to the Forests Asia 500,000 readers. Kompas published two public website for 30 days. service announcements from CIFOR ahead of •• Created a landing page on its website for news the Summit. about the Forests Asia Summit: http://www. thejakartaglobe.com/environment/forests-asia- Website summit-2014/ CIFOR formed a separate partnership with •• Published a full-page, full-color spread of Kompas.com, the online version of Kompas, which photographs from the Forests Asia photo has an online readership approaching 30 million competition. people. Kompas.com ran a banner ad leading to •• Published five op-ed articles written by CIFOR the Forests Asia website, and it published two op- scientists about the conference or related topics, ed articles by CIFOR scientists and staff. posted online in parallel. •• Agreed to publish CIFOR op-ed articles once a month henceforth.
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Investor Daily and Suara Pembaruan 5.12.2. Media Coverage •• These two niche newspapers each published Seventy journalists from across the region attended three public service announcements in the run- the Forests Asia Summit in Jakarta, along with more up to the Summit. than 90 social media reporters. •• Investor Daily has an approximate daily circulation of 40,000 readers As a reflection of the significant efforts of organizers •• Suara Pembaruan has an approximate daily to promote the Summit on traditional and circulation of 158,000 readers social media outlets before, during and after the conference, media hits about the event date back to BeritaSatu TV the middle of January 2014 (three and a half months •• The television arm of Berita Satu aired two before the Summit itself). 20-minute interviews with CIFOR scientists about the themes of the conference. At the time of writing, the Forests Asia Summit had been cited in the media 343 times. Stories have been CIFOR provided Berita Satu with a stage at published on media outlets across Southeast Asia, the Summit venue from which to conduct including the Reuters AlertNet, Channel News Asia, short interviews with speakers and conference Devex, Mongabay, Wall Street Journal Indonesia, participants. Kompas (Indonesia), the Jakarta Globe (Indonesia), the Straits Times (Singapore), Rappler (Philippines), Asia News Network (Thailand), Myanmar Business Today and Xinhua (China). Media coverage of the Summit is summarized in Annex VI.
Berita Satu’s Managing Editor, Florence Armein interviews Daniel Murdiyarso, Principal Scientist, CIFOR in front of the Berita Satu media stage at the Summit venue
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The Forests Asia Summit was cited by the media 343 times, with stories published in Thomson Reuters Alertnet, Kompas, Wall Street Journal, the Straits Times and Jakarta Globe, among others
Top 5 ‘news makers’ Top 10 media outlets Headlines of the most popular stories from the The following media outlets published the most Forests Asia Summit: stories about the Forests Asia Summit:
1. Anti-haze bill ‘to be tabled later this year’: 1. Jakarta Globe (Indonesia) Singapore Minister 2. Thomson Reuters Foundation Alertnet (UK) 2. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang 3. Kompas.com (Indonesia) Yudhoyono opens the Forests Asia Summit 4. Wild Singapore (Singapore) 3. Susilo Bambang Yudhyono hopes successor 5. BeritaSatu (Indonesia) continues moratorium 6. The Straits Times (Singapore) 4. Zero tolerance for illegal land burning, vows 7. The Jakarta Post (Indonesia) Indonesia President 8. Tribunnews.com (Indonesia) 5. Brunei commits to cap agricultural land use 9. Kompasiana (Indonesia) at 1 percent 10. Today Online (Singapore)
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5.12.3. Press Releases In the second press conference, organized by CIFOR, Press releases and media advisories were issued four high-level speakers — one each from CIFOR, ahead of the Summit to attract media attention and Greenpeace, Indonesia’s REDD+ Agency, and the to promote the conference’s messages and program. Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry — discussed their answers to the question, “What At the end of each day of the conference, one can the next Indonesian government do to protect press release was sent to serve as a “newsy” recap forests?” of the day’s proceedings, including key quotes and commitments delivered by high-profile speakers The press conferences included the following (Annex VII). These press releases were reproduced speakers: by many media outlets, including Thomson Reuters Alertnet, Eco-business.com, The Straits Times •• Olof Skoog, Ambassador, European Commission (Singapore), Xinhua (China), Rappler (Philippines), The Delegation to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam Nation (Thailand). and ASEAN •• Agus Sarsito, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia All press releases in English reached 3,900 journalists •• Colin Crooks, Senior Coordinator for ASEAN, EC worldwide while press releases in Bahasa Indonesia Delegation to Indonesia, Brueni Darussalam reached close to 500 journalists in Indonesia. and ASEAN •• Heru Prasetyo, Head, REDD+ Management All press releases were posted on the conference Agency, Indonesia website: http://www.cifor.org/forestsasia/media/. •• Shinta Kamdani, Vice Chairwoman, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, 5.12.4. Press Conferences Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Two press conferences were held at the Forests Asia •• Bustar Maitar, Global Head Indonesia Forest Summit. The first was organized by the European Campaign, Greenpeace International Commission Delegation to Indonesia, Brunei •• Daniel Murdiyarso, Principal Scientist, CIFOR Darussalam and ASEAN. The topic covered the European Union’s joint timber certification program with Indonesia.
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(From left to right:) Rodrigo Chaves, Country Director for Indonesia, World Bank; Stig Traavik, Ambassador, Norwegian Embassy to Indonesia; Bustar Maitar, Global Head Indonesia Forest Campaign, Greenpeace International; Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, International Forestry Students Association; Heru Prasetyo, Head, REDD+ Agency, Indonesia during the Closing Plenary of the Forests Asia Summit Photo by CIFOR
Rapporteurs were selected by CIFOR and Discussion •• Government, the corporate sector and the Forum organizers to record key messages from finance sector must work together to create each session at the Summit. Summit organizers enabling conditions to unlock private capital and endeavored to ensure that these messages were support investments in sustainable landscapes forward looking and action-oriented, focused on and smallholders. the Summit objectives of supporting research, •• The scientific community, with support from investments in sustainable landscapes, and new and the public and private sectors, must engage continued multi-stakeholder dialogue. in integrated and targeted research aimed at increasing understanding of the dynamics that Organizers compiled these messages into an shape landscapes and communicate findings to Outcome Statement, which concluded that: government and business in a way that supports evidence-based changes in policy and practice •• To achieve equitable and sustainable green toward a sustainable future and action on growth in Southeast Asia, all stakeholder groups the ground. must strive to overcome communication barriers, engage in continued, participatory dialogue, and The Outcome Statement (Annex VIII) was shared act together within a landscape and multilevel with all participants through the Forests Asia Summit governance framework. Special News Update. The statement was also posted on the conference website.
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Capacity-building efforts are a regular feature of World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), International CIFOR events. The Forests Asia Summit sought to Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics build on previous achievements by organizing three (ICRISAT), International Center for Tropical Agriculture separate initiatives, in which a heavy emphasis was (CIAT), and the CGIAR Research Program on Water, placed on building the capacity of CIFOR’s boundary Land and Ecosystems (WLE) as well as a host of partners in the Southeast Asia region. boundary partners including FORDA, Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange 7.1. Social Media Training Programme for Southeast Asia (NTFP-EP), Tropenbos International, Wetlands International and the The success of social media training sessions at International Forestry Students Association (IFSA). previous conferences such as the Global Landscapes Forum and Forest Day 6 provided a solid foundation The training participants were part of a group of for the Forests Asia Summit to move beyond social media volunteers whose role was to report participation numbers to focus on the quality of from the conference and share content. The social the training and prioritize the inclusion of CIFOR’s media team totaled 238 people. regional boundary partners. Through its online activities, CIFOR’s communications team has CIFOR purposely and strategically reached out to its demonstrated the effectiveness of social media for boundary partners to encourage them to take part in extending the reach and influence of its research to the social media activities around the Summit. As a its stakeholders, and so wanted to use the Summit result, approximately one-third of CIFOR’s boundary as an opportunity to share knowledge and lessons partners formed part of the on-site and virtual social learned with its boundary partners. media team.
Led by CGIAR Social Media Coordinator Peter These efforts have laid the foundations for long- Casier, CIFOR facilitated the development of a social term relationship building with CIFOR’s regional media webinar; this was the first time CIFOR had partners and will form a key part of CIFOR’s regional used such a tool for capacity-building activities communications strategy to build an online related to an event. Three webinars took place in knowledge-sharing community in Asia. the month leading up to the Summit to include people unable to attend the on-site social media training, thus enabling them to report from the 7.2. Youth Session Summit remotely. These webinars were attended by 22 people including communications personnel In partnership with the Young Professionals from the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and for Agricultural Development (YPARD) and the Rural Development, UNEP, IUCN, the Rights and International Forestry Students Association (IFSA), Resources Initiative, Bioversity International and CIFOR brought together 120 of the brightest minds government officials from the ASEAN Social Forestry from across Southeast Asia to identify new ways of Network (ASFN). tackling the region’s major forestry and development challenges and to identify the role youth could More than 90 communications staff from play driving such solutions forward. Youth session government, NGOs, research institutes, universities discussions were informed by, and were intended and students took part in the on-site social media to feed into, the five Background Briefs developed training on 3, 4 and 7 May, which included a post- by Summit organizers as part of a multi-stakeholder event evaluation session. Participants included consultation process. representatives from the CGIAR centers such as the
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Youth moderators and mentors celebrate a successful Youth Session at the Forests Asia Summit Photo by CIFOR
The special session on youth in Southeast Asia introduced a component of youth moderation Online discussions and mentoring. This was in response to feedback • L’Oreal, Nestlé (& other companies) are from the youth session at the Global Landscapes committing to zero deforestation…but Forum, where participants recommended a more where are the youth? participatory approach for future events. • What can young people do to encourage good governance of Southeast Asia’s forests? From over 60 applications, five young people were • How can youth promote the importance of selected to each lead a discussion focused on one SE Asia’s forest foods? of the Summit’s themes. During the five weeks • What skills do youth need for future climate before the event, youth moderators took part in a change careers? mentorship program with young CIFOR scientists • How can youth work with local communities to develop and refine their discussion aims and to achieve development outcomes? objectives, and with an expert facilitator to decide on a moderation technique that would help achieve the aims of their discussion. At the Summit Over 300 people registered to attend the youth Moderators and mentors were asked to develop session but the space and program allowed for only and lead online discussions. By responding to over 120. Approximately 80% of the participants were 120 comments and posing strategic questions to from Indonesia, highlighting the difficulty for young generate further discussions, moderators tested and people in the ASEAN region to obtain funding to refined their ideas for the most stimulating discussion attend the conference. topics. The online discussions were among the most commented-on pages of the Forests Asia website, The chart below shows that the youth session was highlighting the level of engagement with young also well attended by older professionals interested people at the Summit and the important role the in youth issues. This was a strategic decision by the Youth Session played in building momentum around organizing team to allow for informal networking the event. and to ensure that youth’s innovative ideas are mainstreamed and operationalized.
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Youth session participants Outcomes: •• The youth session generated a set of clear and feasible recommendations for youth empowerment and involvement. These were circulated to all session participants,
Government IGO posted on the conference website (http:// 4% 4% Media/ goo.gl/f8AwjO) and presented at the comms Student Summit’s Closing Plenary. 4% 39% •• Demonstrated knowledge and skills uptake NGO among participants included blogging and 10% social media skills, facilitation techniques and event organization: Private -- Moderators expressed a keenness to 6% apply what they learned to concrete local-level initiatives -- 95% of participants who completed the youth session evaluation survey Research found the session relevant and useful to 33% their job. •• Increased awareness of youth initiatives and networks •• Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between CIFOR and IFSA
Andhyta Utami, a 22 year old researcher and activist opens the Special Session on Youth in Southeast Asia Photo by CIFOR
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7.3. Journalist Training Outcomes Sixteen early-career journalists from around the region •• The participants have so far published 14 — including from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, news pieces in their respective media outlets: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore — took -- Seven news stories had to be put on part in a journalism training workshop, “Reporting on hold due to rapid developments in Forests in Southeast Asia,” held on 30 April – 4 May. Indonesian and Thai politics in the weeks following the conference. The workshop was structured to provide early- -- In June, a 15-minute movie was aired on career journalists with a hands-on understanding of Vietnam TV key forestry and development issues, as well as key -- As these stories are published, they science journalism reporting skills to enable them will be curated to www.forestsasia.org/ to seek science and policy stories at the subsequent journalist-training. Forests Asia Summit and throughout their careers. •• Many of the journalists also live tweeted from the Summit The program included: •• Of the 16 participants, 89% agreed or •• Interactive lectures and workshops with senior strongly agreed that the workshop met their scientists on topics including coastal forests, expectations, the structure worked well, it timber trafficking, land tenure, climate change, was relevant and useful for their job and will local livelihoods, food security, among others. be able to use what they learned. •• Seminars on finding the human story in science, reporting politicized science, understanding a research paper, future social media trends and understanding statistics. •• Opportunities for one-on-one interviews with leading scientists, policy makers and project managers. •• A two-day field trip to an Indonesian forest community to see integrated land use methods first-hand.
Many of the journalists who participated in the training, live tweeted from the Forests Asia Summit
Just hearing the stories of the other fellows showed me other aspects of journalism and how the industry works in other countries and cultures. A participant from the journalist training tweets from the Training participant workshop held at CIFOR headquarters, Bogor Feedback taken from the journalist training participant survey
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The Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia hosts an exhibition at the Forests Asia Summit Photo by CIFOR
Partners of the CGIAR Research Programme on Forests Trees and Agroforestry - Bioversity, CIAT, World Agroforestry Centre - The WWF Borneo Programme presents their latest work at the present publications during the Forests Asia Summit exhibition Forests Asia Summit exhibition Photo by CIFOR Photo by CIFOR
Funding partners, session organizers and exhibition •• Logo recognition on all marketing materials — hosts received wide exposure and recognition website, event banners, photo walls, program leading up to, during and after the Forests Asia booklet, displays; Summit. They were featured across all marketing •• Verbal recognition of funding partners and platforms and branding opportunities, including: coordinating partners during the closing plenary; •• Most prominent placement in online and print marketing.
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9.1. Participant Survey A notable trend that emerged from the participant survey was support for a landscapes approach. Summit organizers developed a short online For example, the most common responses to the feedback form based on the format of surveys question “What is the key message you took from the from the Global Landscapes Forum and previous Summit?” included: Forest Days. The link to the survey was sent to •• “That there is an emerging paradigm in how we Summit participants, with follow-up reminders sent approach the development of the green economy to partners and session hosts and presenters, as that involves a closer coordination and dialogue valuable stakeholders. Of some 2,200 participants, between private and public entities, as well as a 198 had responded to the survey questions by landscapes approach to framing solutions” 10 June 2014. The full results of the participant survey can be found in Annex IX. •• “A turning point has been reached, that there was a weight of opinion and intent, ... by a range of public and private sector stakeholders that green growth/ Key results: economy is not just a passing catchphrase - that it may actually be happening, that businesses •• 86% of respondents rated the Summit as are serious about it and that it just might be a “successful” or “very successful” sustainable way forward” •• Top 5 sessions that respondents felt were of most value: •• “That there is increasing recognition in the -- Discussion Forums importance of integrated partnership between -- Thematic High Level Panel Discussions communities and policy makers and other -- Day 1 Opening Plenary stakeholders for sustainable landscapes” -- Day 2 Keynote speeches •• “That the private sector has to be part of the solution -- Opening plenary discussion: Green growth in and not the problem, and that government needs to Southeast Asia step up its role in landscape management” •• 99.5% of respondents felt that Summit sessions •• “We need action. We need to collaborate. No one can were helpful in: do this alone” -- Deepening respondents’ knowledge -- Introducing new knowledge -- Generating fruitful discussions Support for the landscapes approach -- General networking was noticeable among respondents -- Generating opportunities for continued of the Summit participant survey and partnerships and dialogue independent evaluation •• 93% of respondents will share, research further and apply the knowledge they gained from There was a feeling of buzz – the the Summit landscapes approach was being •• The proportion of participants who felt that they were “familiar” or “very familiar” with the concept taken seriously, people were joining of sustainable landscapes rose from 46% before our position on it. It felt constructive, the Summit to 71% after the Summit a sense of momentum. We often feel •• The proportion of participants who felt that they isolated on the landscapes approach, were “familiar” or “very familiar” with the concepts of green growth and green economy approaches but not at Forests Asia. rose from 44% before the Summit to 69% after Private sector representative the Summit Feedback provided as part of an independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit
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Discussions during the Special Session: Youth in Southeast Asia Photo by CIFOR
9.2. Independent Review of Stakeholder Engagement The IDL Group’s independent evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit found that the level of engagement with business was To further understand the experiences of key one of the event’s key achievements stakeholders at the Summit, CIFOR contracted the IDL Group to carry out an independent review of We will definitely be trying the event. The IDL Group interviewed high-level speakers including government delegations, session to contact private sector and hosts and boundary partners, as well as funding financial organisations more in partners. Interviewees represented a balance the future for collaboration. of the government, civil society, business and research sectors. NGO representative Feedback provided as part of an independent The report highlighted a great deal of enthusiasm evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit among participants for the Forests Asia Summit. There was a consensus across stakeholder groups that the were achieved at the Summit. However, they felt that level of engagement with business was one of the commitments to further research and funding could key achievements of the Summit. The attendance have been more prominently addressed. Respondents of high-level participants also paved the way for also provided suggestions for improvement in terms the commitments and decision-making required of the event’s structure, format, participation and to address the region’s forestry and development organization. These included increasing participation challenges. Interviewees were also positive of the of forest-dependent communities, diversifying the Summit’s potential to influence their work. They nationalities of participation and allowing more time highlighted the importance of follow-up activities to for Q+A. the Summit to ensure the event has impact over the long-term. The Executive Summary of the IDL Group’s evaluation of the Forests Asia Summit can be found in Annex X. Respondents felt that support for the landscapes For the full report, please contact Adinda Hasan, CIFOR’s approach and commitments to continued dialogue Regional Communications Coordinator for Asia.
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The path we have to follow is very clear if the world wants to limit the temperature increase to two degrees Celsius… And that should be seen as an opportunity rather than a burden
Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Hosted by Host country partner Coordinating partner Center for International Forestry Research Ministry of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia Global Initiatives cifor.org dephut.go.id globalinitiatives.com
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KADIN Indonesia Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry