Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have formally signed an Implementing Arrangement (IA) covering cooperation on REDD+ activities, according to a report published by ANTARA News on 21 May 2026. The IA is a direct follow-on to a memorandum of understanding concluded between the two parties in 2024 on environmental and forestry collaboration.
Ristianto Pribadi,, characterised the agreement as embodying a mutual commitment to accelerating REDD+ implementation. The ministry indicated that the partnership is aligned with Indonesia’s FOLU Net Sink 2030 target and its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.
Martin Krause, Director of UNEP’s Climate Change Division, described forests as capable of addressing multiple challenges simultaneously — from carbon sequestration to biodiversity protection and community resilience. He outlined several priority areas envisioned under the arrangement: technical support forfor REDD+ projects; bolstering Indonesia’s carbon market readiness and implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement; advancement of social forestry and community-based enterprises; increasing the forestry sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas mitigation; and strengthening safeguards together with knowledge-based approaches at both national and subnational levels.
Carbon Market Context
- The research’s visible market snapshot does not list REDD+ as a separately labelled pathway. The nearest forest-related pathway tracked is improved forest management (IFM): approximately 22.6 million tCO2e issued across 3,599 records, with roughly 16.9 million tCO2e retired — providing a reference point for the scale of voluntary forest carbon supply currently active in the research.
Source
- Kemenhut-UNEP teken penguatan kerja sama dalam proyek REDD+Kantor Berita ANTARA, 2026-05-21