Nicholas Brown – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Brown on 2015-11-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid her Department is providing to Indonesia to assist with tackling forest fires.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK is providing technical support through a number of channels. For example, the UK Climate Change Unit in Indonesia has funded the World Resource Institute’s Global Forest and Fire Watch which provides free real-time information on fire spots, linking these data to land licensing and land type. In addition, the UK’s Forest Land-Use and Governance (FLAG) programme in Indonesia is funding longer-term fire prevention work through civil society, private sector and government, focusing on transparency, accountability and spatial planning to resolve the land governance issues that lead to fires.