• REDD+ means Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and the

plus means: Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks through the following means:

a) Conservation of forest carbon stocks (establishment of conservation areas);

b) Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); and

c) Enhancement of Forest carbon stocks through restoration and enrichment

planting activities.

• REDD+ is a mechanism which provides an economic

incentive to encourage developing countries to reduce

carbon emissions through sustainable forest

management.

• Malaysia signed the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on June

1993 and ratified on the Convention in July 1994

(MOSTI, 2000) and ratified the Kyoto Protocol in

September 2002. In Copenhagen, Denmark (COP 15),

Malaysia adopted an indicator of a voluntary

reduction of up to 40% in terms of emissions intensity

of GDP by the year 2020 compared to 2005 levels

(MoNRE, 2002). In addition to that, Malaysia’s Rio

1992 pledge of maintaining 50% of land area as perpetual forest cover was reiterated in

Copenhagen 2009.

• Sabah has ventured into carbon-related initiatives as early as in 1992, when a carbon offset

project through enrichment planting and rehabilitation of degraded logged-over forests

(Ulu Segama-Malua FR) project took place, in-collaboration between the Sabah

Foundation and Face Foundation).

• Sabah has developed a REDD+ Roadmap in 2012, with the objectives to promote the

elaboration and development of a sub-national REDD+ strategies towards the

transformation of land use to sustainable development and sustainable forest management

through equitable performance-based payment. The road map outlined the steps needed in

order to become REDD+ ready.

• SFD has taken the proactive steps in initiating a sub-national REDD+ development for the

Sabah through the International Heart of Borneo (HoB) Conference on ‘Forest and Climate

Change- Decoding and Realising REDD+ with specific Focus on Sabah’ in November

2010. In which, during the conference the Chief Conservator of Forests, Datuk Sam

Mannan announced the decision of SFD in taking the lead role on a progressive step

towards climate change mitigation through mechanisms offered by REDD+.

REDD+ is one of the many

initiatives in development by

the federal government as

approaches for technical and

financial supports for the

protection, preservation and

sustainable management not

just of the forest carbon

resources, but also the forests

capacity for provision of other

ecosystem services, such as

water and biodiversity.

History of REDD+ Development in Sabah

• In 2013, the European Union (EU) pledged to support the State in implementing a REDD+

project with the selection of 3 pilot sites in Kinabalu Ecolinc under Sabah Parks, in

Kinabatangan and in Kg Gana under Sabah Forestry Department.

The project is coordinated by a REDD+ Unit based in SFD which also acts as the

Secretariat for the REDD+ Programme and development for the State.

Project Title: Demonstration initiative on community-based forest management and

REDD+ in Sabah.

Programme Title: Tackling climate change through sustainable forest management and

community development.

Overall objectives:

To contribute to the sustainable and low carbon development of the State of Sabah.

Specific Objectives:

Improve Sabah’s REDD+ readiness and implementation through REDD+ demonstration

activities to strengthen community engagement in forest protection and pro-poor

sustainable forest management.

Project Area Map: Overall

• The development of REDD+ framework in Sabah is planned in four phases with 5 steps-

wise approach as illustrated in the Figure 1 below:

• The implementation of the REDD+ in Sabah is currently being coordinated by Sabah

Forestry Department, supported by four (4) Technical Working Groups (TWGs),

comprises of representatives from various state government agencies (Figure 2) below,

established to coordinate the development of a State REDD+ framework.

*ESS: Environmental and Social Safeguards

* MRV: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification.

• Inclusion of carbon as a forest produce in the Sabah Forest Enactment 1968 in 2013.

• Provisions of REDD+ have been incorporated in the New Sabah Forest Policy, (2017).

• Policy on Payment of Ecosystem Services (PES) in which REDD+ is a form of PES

has been endorsed by the Cabinet;

• Sabah REDD+ Strategy: State Cabinet has approved the amendment in the Forest

Enactment on REDD+ and it will be tabled in the next State Assembly sitting.

Other links: Kinabalu Ecolinc Project by Sabah Parks.

http://www.sabahparks.org.my/discover-us/kinabalu-ecolinc-project#

Policy and Legislation relating to REDD+

http://www.sabahparks.org.my/discover-us/kinabalu-ecolinc-project

Carbon Stock Assessment Training, Gana Kota Marudu on the 22-23 February 2016

Design Participatory Land Use Planning Procedure for Kinabalu Ecolinc Zone, Kampung Wassai

Tuaran on the 26 February 2016

Photos

Field Visit to Demo Site by Ms Jenni Lundmark, Project Manager European Union on

the 21 March 16

EU Ambassador and Delegation visit & Site Visit on the 6 December 16

HE Madam Maria Castillo Fernandez, EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation to Sabah

HE Madam Maria Castillo Fernandez, EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation site visit to Kg.

Bundu Tuhan (Ecolinc Kinabalu Sabah EU-REDD+ Project), Sabah Parks