Youth engagement in satellite-based

forest monitoring to support net-sink

FOLU emission by 2030

Satrio Adi Wicaksono, PhD

APIK Indonesia Network Event at Indonesia Pavilion COP 26

UNFCCC Side Event – Jakarta
4 November 2021
https://www.foreststreesagroforestry.org/
Objectives & Methodology
• Explores ways to make tropical forest monitoring more inclusive,
effective, sustainable, and transparent by constructively involving
youth
• Informs a roadmap for the application of innovative forest technologies in the
Asia-Pacific region
• Using three case studies
• Indonesia: HAkA and Urundata
• Malaysia: Hutanwatch
• Identifies some potential key successes and limiting factors in order to
better facilitate scaling-up
 and percentage of population under the age of 15

21.1 %
46.4 %
23.9 %
25.4 %
23.2 %
25.7 %
Tropical, 30.3 %
32.0 %
forest-rich 36.5 %
41.6 %
countries 42.3 %
23.9 %
are young 26.0 %
26.8 %
23.3 %
25.8 %
26.3 %
26.0 %
18.5 %
31.3 %
39.5 %
22.6 %
16.5 %
32.4 %
43.4 %

/ World Bank 2020

 SKILLS
CAPACITY-BUILDING
COMMUNITIES
INCENTIVES
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
RAPID PROTOTYPING