![]() From the start, we treated the community as our shareholders, not just stakeholders, with a focus on collaboration, transparency, and accountability. But our good intentions were clear, and that helped us slowly build social capital, one town hall meeting at a time. In the meantime, we were asking local villages to imagine a business-using carbon credits to protect the environment and produce a benefit for them-that didn’t yet exist there was no precedent. It took us six years to secure a concession license, which gave us the legal rights to manage the land. McKinsey: What challenges did you face in the early days of the Katingan Mentaya Project?ĭharsono Hartono: Initially, people said our idea was too crazy. An edited version of their conversation follows. Hartono sat down with McKinsey partner Josh Katz to discuss the Katingan Mentaya Project, how it has evolved over time, what he’s learned about nature-based solutions, and why he’s optimistic about the future. It issues approximately 7.5 million metric tons of emissions reductions per year, which is, by its own calculations, the equivalent of taking two million cars off the road. Today, the Katingan Mentaya Project manages 157,000 hectares of land, encompassing 35 villages. PT Rimba Makmur Utama launched the Katingan Mentaya Project to deliver on these goals, including providing sustainable livelihoods to local communities. The region had been seriously damaged by fires since the early 1990s. The friends founded PT Rimba Makmur Utama with the idea of using carbon financing to preserve and restore peatland ecosystems in Central Kalimantan. 1 Sara Campanales, “Protecting the endangered wildlife of Borneo’s last peatlands,” EcoAct, March 3, 2023. “We were just two young entrepreneurs looking to make a change, and we now manage one of the largest emission reduction and forest restoration projects of its kind in the world,” says Hartono. For Hartono, who had recently returned to Indonesia after studying engineering and then working in the United States, the idea struck a chord. Kusumaatmadja proposed they start a business together to help combat climate change in their homeland of Indonesia. Kevin Perry and Emilie Wolf.Back in 2007, Dharsono Hartono ran into a friend, Rezal Kusumaatmadja, while attending a palm oil conference. More predictable was the enjoyment of a night hike under a luminous layer of fog, with the calls of "spring peeper" frogs echoing around. The boys and I were accompanied by two of our science teachers, Dr. Field studies can be hard work, and their outcomes can be unpredictable. Two groups of boys continued Browning's three-year effort extracting Japanese barberry - a tough, deep-rooted invasive species - from the environs of the science center. ![]() The boys studied a wide range of organisms, sampling various birch barks, learning how to drill tree-core samples, and analyzing the resistance of invasive plant species to chemicals in precipitation, to name a few activities. Boys laid turtle traps in several of the ponds of the forest but were hampered by few turtles venturing into them. This year, the forest was overcast and fog-shrouded. "On April 26 and 27, Form III students spent two days at Black Rock Forest gathering data for their biology projects. ![]() Science Department Chair and Dean of Students Sam Keany, who is also vice president of The Black Rock Forest Consortium Board, offers the following report on the recent trip taken by Form III boys to Black Rock Forest: ![]()
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