A2 – Scaling Landscape Restoration Through Carbon Finance and Partnerships

Session > A2 – Scaling Landscape Restoration Through Carbon Finance and Partnerships

Indonesia Pavilion COP30

November 12, 2025 | 12:50 pm - 2:20 pm

About

A. Background

Indonesia is uniquely positioned to lead on nature-based solutions, with its vast peatlands and mangrove ecosystems offering critical opportunities to achieve Indonesia’s FOLU Net Sink 2030 ambition. Policies to protect forests in Indonesia also reflect the continuous evolution of natural resource management paradigms. In 2024, Indonesia’s Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2025-2045 identified biodiversity credits as another financing tool to be explored. Currently, the Forestry Ministry is working on a scheme to open restoration business concessions in degraded conservation areas, granting businesses rights to manage them for 30 years or more. With these policies laying the foundation for accelerating ecosystem restoration at scale, there is fresh impetus for agribusiness and forestry companies to join hands with NGOs and local communities to protect and restore natural capital. This talkshow will explore how strategic partnerships and innovative financing mechanisms for restoration and conservation, including blended finance and carbon markets, are supporting Indonesia’s ambitious climate and nature goals.

B. Objective and Output

Formal signing of the South Sumatra PPP.
Educate the international community on Indonesia’s Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, including its renewed commitment to:
- Restore 2 million ha of peatland by 2030
- Rehabilitate 12 million ha of degraded land by 2030
- Achieve a FOLU Net Sink (negative CO2 emissions) by 2030
Educate the international community on recent actions taken by the GoI to faciliate large-scale restoration and deliver on the above targets, e.g. introduction of ecosystem restoration concessions, investmen in carbon market infrastructure.
Share on-the-ground knowledge and facilitate dialogue between carbon project developers / forest managers and international stakeholders from downstream customers to research institutions and NGOs - to catalyse more partnerships.

C. Target Audience

International carbon credit buyers and other potential investors in landscape restoration in Indonesia
Carbon credit ecosystem players in the Global North who would benefit from understanding the Global South’s perspective