As a follow-up to Letter of the Head of the Foreign Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Environment and For-estry (MoEF) regarding the Submission of the West Kalimantan Green Climate Fund (GCF Kalbar) Proposal, the West Kalimantan Environment and Forestry Service held a meeting with West Kalimantan GCF partners on 16 August 2023. The partners invited to the meeting were FORCLIME, Fauna Flora International (FFI) and Solidaridad, while the meeting aimed to strengthen cooperative relations among West Kalimantan GCF members, including through the provision of updates on the development of the GCF proposal and partner cooperation with the MoEF related to the planned climate funding proposal for the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The hybrid meeting was led by the Head of Forest Use and Utilization for the Provincial Environment and Forestry Service, Mr. Ervan Judiarto, and was attended by several heads of the Environment and Forestry Service, members of the REDD Working Group (academicians and local NGOs) and GCF partners in West Kalimantan.

After the meeting, Solidaridad and FFI added the activities that will be carried out under the GCF framework to the memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is being prepared with the relevant national partners. This MoU will ultimately become the basis for the implementation of joint activities with the West Kalimantan Environment and Forestry Service.

For more information, please contact:
Ervan Judiarto, ST., MT., the Head of Forest Use and Utilization of the Environment and Forestry Service
Jumtani, Advisor for Sustainable Forest Management and GCF Focal Point
Wandojo Siswanto, Strategic Area Manager for Forest Policy and Climate Change