As part of important stakeholders, private sector is strategically encouraged and needed to be involved in the process.

In response to private sector willingness to contribute during the process, IBCSD held series of dialogues inviting representatives from the central goverment, local government (Regency of Siak and Musi, Banyuasin), private companies, business associations and non-governmental organizations.

The discussions are focusing into the issues of regulation and mechanism in the one map policy process.

Through these positive and extensive discussion, the working group, named Kamar Tengah, laid a strong foundation both on enabling regulation and mechanism for private sector to further work together and contribute in the implementing process of One Map Policy.

The Guide offers a standardized framework to support businesses along the forest products value chain in identifying, measuring, and valuing their impacts and dependencies on natural capital. A clearer understanding of this complex relationship with nature will inform better decision-making, strategy and communication.

To ensure broad endorsement and uptake by the sector, the content of the Guide was developed through an extensive engagement process with key stakeholders from across all continents. Eight leading businesses have also applied the Guide to concrete cases of natural capital assessments, provided feedback on the content and shared their experience through case studies.

The Guide is designed to inspire other businesses along the forest products value chain to experiment with natural capital assessments, re-think their relationship with nature and trigger action and meaningful conversations from the forests to the boardrooms.

For more information, please contact: Nicolas Jammes, WBCSD Communication Manager: [email protected]

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The main point of the workshop is to help the SMEs to learn on how to develop a more responsible business, their own way. To do that, SMEs should determine and communicate the values adopted. Other thing they should do is to involve employees to start ‘seeing’ resource efficiency and get better on it. Then, trying to reduce carbon footprint is ahead of them. After that, measure the results and impacts to get evidence of environmental and social performance is also important so it can be used to differentiate a product and attract more customers. Last but not least, SMEs could start small with the concept of ‘Re-use’ in every compatible aspect in their industry.

Of course enlighten the SMEs is not something easy. They first should have the awareness to start evaluate their own business, regarding sustainability. Therefore, IBCSD together with GRI come up with a program called Corporate Sustainability Report for Competitive Business. This program designed for IBCSD’s member companies to help their SMEs supplier to understand and start doing sustainability report on an online platform, so it would be easier for the company too to compile their data and develop their own SR. For more info around the program, please contact us through email on [email protected].

To assist in the process of engagement, a space or communications forum is needed that allows non-governmental parties in government-run KSP and JIGN processes to support a single map acceleration policy, and be specifically asked to assist:
1) Strengthening the policy of one map in the management and supervision of the environment
2) Supporting open government policy
3) Encourage effective and efficient private (non-governmental) involvement of the private sector (non-government actors)

To resume the discussion, IBCSD held a second Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as a follow-up to the first FGD. The FGD was held on Thursday, July 16, 2018 at 8.30 – 12.30 at Mercantile Club, Jakarta and participated by private companies, business associations and non-governmental organizations and central and local government representatives, with the following objectives:
1) Discussion related to the regulation and mechanism of involvement of non-governmental parties, especially private parties, in the KSP process and JIGN mechanism in the communications space between the government, private, and non-governmental organizations;
2) Discussion on key issues in private sector involvement in KSP and JIGN processes (data confidentiality, data sharing protocol);
3) Proposed establishment of working group to explore & find road map related to key issues in private sector involvement in KSP and JIGN process.

Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) itself is a global development agreement involving more than 190 heads of state, endorsed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla on the UN International Agenda for SDGs on September 25, 2015. The SDGs aim to end poverty, reduce inequalities and protect the environment, whereby those objectives apply to all of Indonesia. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary for the Government to play the right policy strategy for Indonesia to be able to implement SDGs by 2030.

This platform has a vision of improving the welfare and equity of Indonesians through various programs that support the achievement of national SDGs in 2013. In addition, this platform is also made to facilitate the implementation of SDGs.

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“SD Symposium 2018” was an academic forum on sustainable development. For the past five years, the forum’s objective is to develop broader awareness about sustainable development goals. This year, the forum focused on a circular economy and featured a keynote speech by Dr. Somkid Jatusripitak, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. The President and CEO of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) also gave a presentation on a circular economy in the global context. Several seminars were also being held to decode success stories about a circular economy from all sectors, inviting participants to adopt the shared knowledge effectively.

SCG drives the circular economy concept through three key strategies: Reduced material use / Durability, Upgrade and Replacement, and also Reuse and Recycle. SCG has also ensured that the SD Symposium 2018 was also a green event, by utilizing resources efficiently environmentally-friendly and recycling where possible. Air conditioning temperature was set at 25 degrees Celsius. Participants were also encouraged to use public transportation to travel to the event and refrain from wearing jackets. SCG will also reforest together with offset a carbon credit from waste heat power generator in cement production to make the symposium carbon neutral.

More info about the symposium can be found here:

https://www.scg.com/sdsymposium/index-eng.html

The benefit of using mussels (and oysters) as a natural water filter has been proved by “billion Oyster Project” in New York, “Revive our Gulf” in New Zealand. The mussels helps improving water quality and yet very good for biodiversity. It is a hard substrate, which is a good place for other sea creatures to lay eggs, and also works as an anchor for aquatic plants. The vertical structure of the shelter also makes a good habitat for small fishes and grass shrimps. Another thing is mussels also can be the food for other species.

This project main goal is to restore the existence of green mussels as filter feeder, which improves the water quality. Therefore, Ancol is currently working on providing an understanding of the importance of green mussels for the ecosystem, and the function of it in the system itself. That is why increasing public awareness about how the habitat has decrease is such an important step. While doing this, the ‘technology’ is now starting to be implemented in Danau Ancol as the pilot project.

WBCSD member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than US$8.5 trillion and with 19 million employees. The Global Network of almost 70 national business councils gives WBCSD members unparalleled reach across the globe. WBCSD is uniquely positioned to work with member companies along and across value chains to deliver high-impact business solutions to the most challenging sustainability issues.

Same as IBCSD, WBCSD is a CEO-led organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world by making more sustainable business more successful. Their vision is to build a world where nine billion people are living well and within the boundaries of the planet, by 2050.

If you want to know more about IBCSD and WBCSD membership, feel free to contact us.