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Online High Level Peatland Event: Peatlands, a Super Nature-Based Solution
Monday, 5th July 2021
The International Tropical Peatlands Center
(ITPC):Objectives and Progress
AGUS JUSTIANTO

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
The History of ITPC
2 Dec
2019
26 Feb
2019
8 Mar
2019
30 Oct
2018
23 Mar
2018
Brazzaville Declaration
ITPC Declaration
HLP GLF Bonn
Interim Secretariat Open
UNEA 4 Resolution
• Protect peatlands in the
tropics, incl. Congo Basin
• Build the ITPC
• Improve the capacity of GPI
partners and countries on
peatland management
• High-level panel committed to
South-South cooperation
• To protect tropical peatlands
• “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
• acknowledging the important
role of peatlands
• recognizing the need to
increase collaboration
• committing to common
interests in tropical peatlands
• strengthening networking and
collaboration
• Secretariat is based in Bogor
• Coordinated by KLHK
• Assisted by CIFOR

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
International Tropical Peatland Center Launches
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

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
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

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (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

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
ITPC interim secretariat officially opens
• Hosted by the Government of
Indonesia
• Coordinated by the Ministry of
Environment and Forestry
• Based in Bogor, Indonesia
• CIFOR campus
• FORDA campus
Bogor, 26 February 2019

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Progress of ITPC
https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/wp-
content/uploads/2020/03/ITPC-Progress-Report-
2019-web.pdf
• Declaration of ITPC
• International forums
• Global initiatives
• Regional and private cooperation
• Scientific cooperation and events
• Media coverage
• Social media

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ITPC at major International Forums
Jun
2019
Asia-Pacific Forestry
Week (Incheon)
• 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)

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (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.
• Indonesia is one of ITPC’s key partnerships with
the country pledging to cut global carbon
emissions through the protection of peatlands,
and playing an important role in providing
information for adaptation and mitigation
strategies.
• ITPC offers valuable opportunities for
cooperation and the sharing of lessons learned in
peatlands policy- and decision-making processes.
High level South-South Cooperation in action – Protecting Tropical Peatlands Together
– a Triple win for the Climate, People and the Planet

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
South-South Cooperation
• Bilateral Meeting - Vice Minister of
Environment and Forestry (RI) & Minister
of Environment and Sustainable
Development (DRC) at the COP25-UNFCCC,
Madrid, Dec 2019
• Bilateral Meeting - 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

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
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 35 international and
local tropical peatlands experts to contribute to the
conservation, restoration and sustainable management
of peatlands to improve interdisciplinary research.

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (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.

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
Preparing field visit and knowledge sharing for the
technical officials of the ITPC countries (2020) –
postponed due to pandemic

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (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
Ongoing Development

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
Home Page
Current Improvement
ITPC website
https://www.tropicalpeatlands.org/
Provide additional function and feature; Knowledge Platform

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
In total there are more than
1,465 authors listed in this directory.
Since we need to comply with GDPR we are
going to need authors permission to add their
details on ITPC website.
Expert
Directory list
Meet peatlands experts

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
ITPC – ongoing & proposed activities
Serve as a repository of peatland
projects in tropical peatlands
countries
Coordinate research and capacity
development
• Collect and share information on peatlands
projects in Indonesia (DRC, ROC, Peru will follow)
to improve collaborations and design of future
projects ;
• Build a database of existing and seminal tropical
peatlands research;
• Create a directory of tropical peatlands experts,
partners and stakeholders;
• Document a database of peatlands-dependent
people ;
• Create a compendium of tropical peatlands
research issues and questions;
• Involve scientists and data compiler in
training for the adoption of Wetland
Supplement of the IPCC Guidelines.
• Peatland Forum
• Peatland knowledge exchange

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InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
UNEP-GPI
CIFOR
FAO
BRGM
APHI
New Castle
University
KFS
ITPC Supporting Partners

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