The contribution of the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26% until the year 2020, among others set forth in the following priority programs:
1. Planting on marginal lands of at least 500,000 ha each year.
2. Rehabilitate Watershed (DAS) critical, especially in critical watershed 13.
3. Pressing the point of peatland fires to 20% per annum.
4. Combating illegal logging and illegal trading to a minimum level.
5. Lowering production forest felling quota only 9 million m3/tahun.
6. Improving Industrial Forest Plantation, Plantation Forest People, Forest, Forest Village, and Forest People, etc..
7. Mobilizing communities to plant trees and fond of a plant needs and cultures of Indonesia.
The impact of global climate change has been felt in various surface of the earth, earth's temperature increase of about 0.50 C accelerate the melting of ice in the Arctic. United States researchers from the National Data Center for Snow and Ice (NSIDC), recorded an average surface area of ice in the Arctic during the years 1979-2000 was 7.23 million square kilometers, on August 26, 2008 measurements, only the remaining 5.26 million km square. Other impacts, rising sea levels from 0.8 to 1.5 m, a prolonged drought, the spread of pestilence, massive flooding, coral bleaching and large storm waves, which strongly felt the impact of coastal countries and island beaches, including Indonesia (Head of Forestry Information Center
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