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Indonesia
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on June 13 said that the sustainable management of the world's forests is critical for equitable economic growth. Yudhoyono said that Indonesia's economy had changed from one in which forests were sacrificed in return for economic growth, to an environmentally sustainable one where forests are prized for the wide range of ecological services that they provide to society. He declared that by 2025 "no exploitation of resources should exceed its biological regenerative capacity." "Sustainable forestry is critical to our efforts at sustainable development as well as to our climate mitigation efforts," SBY said in his June 13 speech at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), which has its global headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia.
This commitment was echoed by Indonesia on June 20 at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, or the Rio +20 Conference, which revisited the issue of green economy as an instrument of sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Tempo
No. 44/12, June 26, 2012
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