PERKEMAHAN SAHABAT MANGROVE (Camp of Mangrove's friends)

Menyambut hari Ibu 22 Desember 2013, YPMMD West Celebes bekerjasama dengan Greenvision Sulbar, dengan dukungan penuh BPDAS Lariang Mamasa melaksanakan perkemahan Sahabat Mangrove di Mangrove Learning Center Majene. Kegiatan yang dikemas dalam bentuk kemah karya bakti ini pada awalnya direncanakan hanya untuk 100 orang peserta, dan undangan hanya disebarkan melalui facebook, namun baru pada hari kedua pendaftaran peserta telah mencapai lebih dari 200 orang. tanggapan positif dari facebooker ini cukup membuat kelabakan pihak panitia. Kalau masalah komsumsi masih bisa diatasi, tapi yang paling merepotkan adalah menyiapkan tambahan baju kaos yang lengkap dengan sablonnya.

Will COP 19 sharpen focus on tropical peatlands and mangrove ecosystems?

Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research and Boone Kauffman, Oregon State University

High Carbon ecosystems such as peatlands and mangroves are increasingly attracting the attention they deserve for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Scientists and climate change policymakers gathered at a workshop in Bonn late last month to discuss the state of knowledge on ‘ecosystems with high-carbon reservoirs not covered by other agenda items under the Convention (UNFCCC)’.

Behind that technical workshop title lies an important development: high-carbon ecosystems such as peatlands and mangroves are increasingly — and finally — attracting the attention they deserve in the international arena. More importantly, they are on the way to assuming their rightful place in countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

This sharpening focus on tropical peatlands and mangroves could enrich the debate on the Kyoto Part-2, in which developing nations housing the ecosystems could participate. Moreover, this low-hanging fruit seems attractive for dual or even multiple objectives in climate change mitigation and adaptation. So will COP 19 turn its attention to these high carbon ecosystems?

The Bonn workshop was organized by the UNFCCC/SBSTA (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change / Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice), in response to a request by the Parties at last year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in Doha, Qatar.