About This Study
As the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) President, the UK launched the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue with Indonesia as co-chairs. This government-to-government dialogue brings together the largest producers and consumers of internationally traded agricultural commodities (such as palm oil, soya, cocoa, beef and timber) to protect forests and other ecosystems while promoting trade and development. In the run-up to the 2022 G20 summit, the Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA), under the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) grants, conducts targeted technical expert discussions in key producer countries that will help garner input and knowledge to steer the G20 debate and proposal under the FACT Roadmap’s Market and Trade Action 3.
This policy brief wraps up the results of the discussion and provides strategic recommendations for policymakers, practitioners, and the general public which identify, build, and mainstream understanding of key factors – from a producer-country perspective – necessary for establishing common expectations among producers and consumer countries around sustainable production as well as effectively developing a ‘guiding partnership framework’ between producer and consumer countries built based on Indonesia’s trade perspective.