Presented by Haruni Krisnawati, ITPC Lead Coordinator, on G20 Diplomatic Assistance and Partnership Team Visit to ITPC, at the ITPC Secretariat, CIFOR-ICRAF Office, Bogor, 6 June 2022.

1. https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/
The International Tropical Peatlands Center:
Objectives and Progress
ITPC Secretariat

2. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
The History of ITPC
30 Oct
2018
26 Feb
2019
8 Mar
2019
13 Aug
2018
23 Mar
2018
Brazzaville Declaration
Preparation Committee
ITPC Launch
Interim Secretariat
UNEA4 Resolution
• Protect peatlands in the tropics,
including Congo Basin
• Build the ITPC
• Improve the capacity of GPI
partners and countries on
peatland management
• acknowledging the important
role of peatlands
• recognizing the need to
increase collaboration
• committing to common
interests in tropical peatlands
• strengthening networking and
collaboration
• “Conservation and Sustainable
Management of Peatlands"
adopted (UNEP/EA.4/RES.16)
• called for recognition of
peatlands and their important
role in the global ecosystem
• Establishment of ITPC
preparation committee
• DG FORDA as the Chairman
• Secretariat is based in Bogor
• Coordinated by KLHK
• Assisted by CIFOR

3. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Brazaville Declaration
The 3rd Meeting of Partners of the Global Peatlands Initiative
Brazaville, 21-23 Maret 2018
Commitments to:
• Protect peatlands in the tropics, including
Congo Basin
• Establish International Tropical
Peatlands Center
• Improve the capacity of GPI partners and
countries on peatland management

4. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Launch International Tropical Peatlands Center
Jakarta, 30 October 2018
Joint Declaration - Governments of Republic of
Indonesia, Republic of Congo (ROC), Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) :
✓ 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

5. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Objective of ITPC
Menjadi fasilitaor para pemangku kepentingan,
termasuk praktisi, peneliti, dan masyarakat, dalam
mengakses informasi dan pengetahuan yang baik,
kredibel dan valid, yang diperlukan dalam mendesain
dan melaksanakan upaya-upaya perlindungan dan
pengelolaan gambut tropis secara berkelanjutan
Dengan semangat kerjasama internasional, multi-pihak dan multi-
donor Selatan-Selatan, ITPC dibangun di atas prinsip kolaborasi dan
integrasi lintas sektor, membangun platform yang tangguh dan holistik
untuk ilmu pengetahuan, kebijakan dan praktik terbaik dalam
perlindungan dan pengelolaan gambut tropis

6. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Roles of ITPC
• Serve 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.
• Conduct and disseminate scientific research on tropical
peatland management for sustainable development.
• Become a center of excellence for tropical peatland research to
support policy development.
• Provide capacity building and technical services.
The Center brings cross-cutting collaboration and innovation to study and preserve
tropical peatland ecosystem – the importance of South-South exchange

7. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Establishment of ITPC interim secretariat office
• Hosted by the Government of
Indonesia
• Coordinated by the Ministry of
Environment and Forestry
• Based in Bogor, Indonesia
• CIFOR-KLHK campus
• Executed by FORDA/BLI,
assisted by CIFOR
Bogor, 26 February 2019

8. Progress of Activities
• Participated in International forums
• Regional and private cooperation
• Scientific cooperation and exchange
• Capacity Building
• Global initiatives – Peru joining ITPC
• Development of ITPC knowledge platform

9. ITPC at major International Forums
• Jun 2019
• May 2022
• APFW (Incheon)
• XV WFC (Seoul)
• XIV UN Forum on Forest (NY)
• UN Climate Week (NY)
• Global Landscapes Forum (NY)
May, Sep
2019
• Dec 2018
• Jun 2020
• HLP GLF (Bonn)
• Digital Summit
• Global Landscapes Forum (Kyoto)
• Kyoto climate Dialogue
May
2019
Jun
2019
XXV IUFRO World
Congress (Curitiba)
May 2019
Peat Expert Monitoring
Workshop (Rome)
• Tropical peatland roundtable
discussion (Batam)
• International Peatlands Workshop
(Bogor)
• Nov 2018
• Jul 2019
Dec
2019 COP25 UNFCCC
(Madrid)
Nov
2021
COP26 UNFCCC
(Glasgow)

10. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
ITPC at Global Landscapes Forum - Bonn
1-2 December 2018
• Highlight Indonesia’s effort to promote
sustainable forestry and its significant
contributions to tackling climate change.
• ITPC offers valuable opportunities for
cooperation and the sharing of lessons
learned in peatlands policy- and decision-
making processes.
GLF Bonn Side Event: High level South-South Cooperation in action – Protecting
Tropical Peatlands Together – a Triple win for the Climate, People and the Planet

11. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
South-South Cooperation
• Bilateral dialogue - Vice Minister of
Environment and Forestry (RI) & Minister
of Environment and Sustainable
Development (DRC) at the COP25-UNFCCC,
Madrid, Dec 2019
• Bilateral dialogue - Vice Minister of
Environment and Forestry (RI) & the
Minister of Environment and Tourism
(RoC), at the COP25-UNFCCC, Madrid Dec
2019
• Capacity building and knowledge exchange
between ITPC countries

12. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Global knowledge sharing
• The ITPC hosted an international peatlands workshop in
July 2019 in collaboration with Newcastle University,
CIFOR, UNEP, FAO and other partners on “Enhancing
evidence-based policy by developing core common
outcomes and collaborations for peatland research
and monitoring”.
• The workshop brought together more than 30
international and local tropical peatlands experts to
contribute to the conservation, restoration and
sustainable management of peatlands to improve
interdisciplinary research.

13. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Scientific Cooperation: synergizing knowledge
and experiences from tropical peatlands
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.

14. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Preparing field visit and knowledge exchange for the
technical officials of the ITPC countries – the activities
was postponed due to pandemic

15. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Peru joins ITPC international initiative to
conserve and restore peatlands
July 5 2021:
During the Global Peatlands Initiative
Partners meeting organized by the
Ministry of Environment of Peru
(MINAM) and UN Environment
Programme (UNEP), Peru declared
its commitment to join the ITPC as
it seeks to protect and restore its
peatlands in an effort to combat
climate change, protect nature and
promote sustainable development.

16. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
ITPC Sessions in COP26 UNFCCC, Glasgow
• Indonesia Pavilion • Peatland Pavilion
South-South
Collaboration and
lesson learned from
Indonesia corrective
actions on peatlands'
national agenda
Knowledge Platform
Fits for All: An All-In-
One Solution to
Exchange Information
on Tropical Peatlands
Managing C-rich
Peatlands: from
Research to Policy
and Action
New advances in
monitoring
peatlands –
Standardising
what we
measure

17. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
ITPC Sessions in XV WFC, Seoul

18. Developing Knowledge Platform:
Connecting knowledge and research to people
A go-to place for information on peatlands and provide space for users to
browse, search and contribute a variety of knowledge products
Knowledge Platform Fits for All: an All-in-One Solution to Exchange Information on Tropical
Peatlands

19. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Home Page
Before Improvement
ITPC website
https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/
Provide additional function and feature; Knowledge Platform

20. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
This diagram illustrates how people use
the knowledge portal and how the
portal platform interacts with other
platforms.
ITPC Knowledge Portal
Inter platform and people interactions
Two main users:
▪ Knowledge users
▪ Knowledge providers
Inviting knowledge/data
providers to submit their work
and make it available to the
public under agreed data-
sharing protocols

21. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
In total there are more than
2,000 authors listed in this directory.
Need to comply with GDPR (General Data Protection
Regulation) to get authors permission to add their
details on ITPC website.
Details information – profiles, skills, works,
publication, visualization networks, map of
science
Expert Directory
Meet peatlands experts

22. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Next Step
▪ Dynamic.
▪ Additional function and
feature that made the
static directory
becoming more
interactive
▪ Inviting data providers
to submit their work
and make it available to
the public under agreed
data-sharing protocols.

23. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Challenges ahead
• Financial Support
No financial support has been allocated for ITPC
• Legal Status
Current status: initiative - forum
Need to prepare the necessary arrangements, including rule of procedures for the
ITPC as an entity with appropriate status

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