Presented by Haruni Krisnawati (ITPC Lead Coordinator) at COP25, Madrid - Spain, 6 December 2019.

1. Haruni Krisnawati
Session: Getting climate results by bringing peatlands science to policy through South-South & Triangular Cooperation
Indonesia Pavilion COP25 | Madrid - Spain, 6 December 2019
International Tropical
Peatlands Center-
Accelerating global collaboration on tropical peatlands

2. History of ITPC
• Brazzaville Declaration
(March, 2018)
• Commitment to protect
peatlands in the tropics,
Congo Basin
• Commitment to build
International Tropical
Peatlands Centre
• To improve capacity of
GPI partners countries
on peatland
management

3. International Tropical Peatland Center Launches
Governments of Republic of Indonesia, the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of Congo (ROC) signed
a joint declaration:
- Important role of peatlands at global, regional, and
national levels in addressing climate change, protecting
biodiversity, environment, and contributing to the social
economic welfare of people,
- The need to increase respective capacity through
collaboration to promote best practices for conservation
and sustainable management of peatlands,
- Common interests in tropical peatland and ongoing efforts
by governments and partners to conserve and manage
tropical peatlands in a sustainable manner,
- Strengthening networking and collaboration.
The Center brings cross-cutting collaboration and innovation to study and preserve
tropical peatland ecosystem – the importance of South-South exchange
Jakarta, 30 October 2018

4. Objective of ITPC
To ensure that policy makers, practitioners and
communities have access to sound, credible and
legitimate information, analyses, and all other tools
needed to design and implement conservation and
sustainable management of tropical peatlands
In the spirit of international, multi-stakeholder and multi-donor South-
South cooperation, the ITPC is built on the principle of true cross-
sector collaboration and integration, building a resilient and holistic
platform for science, policy and practice, and attracting the best
minds working on research and practice in this field

5. Scopes of activities
1. Compile best practices.
2. Data field laboratory through MRV.
3. Producing accurate and precise data..
4. Reducing risks.
5. Finding new pathways for green
development.
6. Ensuring participation and rights.
7. Setting up the management,
governance and partnership
structure.
8. Supporting policies and measures.
9. Dissemination, engagement and
outreach.
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IndonesiaDemocratic Republic
of Congo
Republic of Congo

6. 2018 2019
Brazzaville Declaration
(Brazzaville, March 2018)
APRS Statement on Peat,
Yogyakarta, April 2018
FAO Summit, Peat Statement
(Rome, July 2018)
LAUNCHING ITPC,
(Jakarta, Oct 2018)
Roundtable Discussion on Peat
(Batam, Nov 2018)
HLP Global Landscape
Forum (Bonn, Dec 2018)
COP 24 CC, Indonesia-Peru
(Katowice, Dec 2018)
Opening ITPC
Secretariat (Bogor, Feb
2019)
UNEA4 Peatland Resolution
(Nairobi, March 2019)
UN Forum on Forests
(New York, May 2019)
Milestones
Global Landscape Forum
(Kyoto, May 2019)
Asia-Pasific Forestry Week
(Seoul, June 2019)
UN Climate Week,
(New York, Sep 2019)
IUFRO
(Curitiba, Oct 2019)
Global Landscapes Forum
(New York, Sep 2019)

7. Important to strengthen capacity and collaboration actions
• serves as a go-to space for South-South
cooperation which will support the dissemination
of strategies and practices for tropical peatland
management, through coordinating and
supporting collaborative international
relationships and connecting different
stakeholders.
• Conducts and disseminates scientific research on
tropical peatland management for sustainable
development.
• Becomes a center of excellence for tropical
peatland research to support policy
development.
• Provides capacity building and technical
services.
International Tropical
Peatlands Center

8. Synergizing knowledge and experiences from tropical
peatlands from different stakeholders
Knowledge on tropical peatlands has been widely available and is
increasing rapidly in recent years, data and experience in peatland
management is also spread everywhere… synergy is needed to
provide right recommendation for policy decisions.
The need to gather available information and knowledge and
develop further capacity to improve science-based actions not
only in Indonesia, but also in other tropical peatlands countries.

9. Opportunities for collaboration
• ITPC welcome and invite other countries, international
organizations, NGOs, donors, private sector, civil
society, and research institutions to contribute and
join.
• Opportunities for cooperation and sharing of lessons
learned in peatlands policy- and decision-making
processes

10. tropicalpeatlands.org
The Center is a South-South cooperation
Coordinating partners