Emergency Response Measure to Combat Fires in Indonesia and to Prevent Regional Haze in South East Asia

The project will assist Indonesia and its neighboring countries in coordinating their regional efforts to mitigate the short-term impacts of forest fires. It aims to develop a national and regional strategy and adopt appropriate concrete measures to combat forest fires, including the establishment of an early warning system, building on existing capacities. More specifically, the project aims at providing the technical assistance required to extinguish the forest fires, with a view to enhancing the national and regional fire fighting capacities by coordinating all efforts to provide the available state-of-the-art technologies and techniques so as to mitigate against the irreversible and irretrievable loss of biodiversity and loss of carbon sinks.