 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Good morning to you all. I feel small and inferior appearing after minister manual physically and psychologically. So I'm going to make my speech interesting by starting from the conclusion part of my speech and you can leave the room after that and the on-wheel. But before that, let me greet DG Dr. Peter Holmgren, my fellow plenary speakers, high-level panel discussion and forum speakers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. And I also would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Center for International Forestry Research, C4, and the Ministry of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia for giving Brunei the platform to share our country's experience in sustainable forest management in this Forest Asia Summit 2014. And I hope to provide the link between what minister manual has said and the panel discussion after this on collaborative efforts on forest management. So as I said, I will straight away go to the conclusion part of my speech which is that climate change and related issues like food security and natural calamities is a global issue. For that, Brunei, Jerusalem, my country will commit the following. Firstly, to continue to offer our tropical rainforest for use as research and study on terrestrial flora and fauna, marine life, as well as forest microbes and microorganism. Secondly, to continue to commit sustainable and responsible agricultural practices. We will limit our agricultural production to no more than 1% of our land areas even for as important as the production of staple food such as rice. And we will continue to leverage on technology and know how to achieve our food security either through the use of higher variety of crops or more productive and efficient farmers or through the use of mechanisation. And finally, this is the crucial part that we will continue to collaborate with our neighbours sharing our borders in the island of Borneo under the Heart of Borneo initiative. My statement will centre around three main topics, less than Minister Emmanuel, seven inspirations, but I go on the three, which is Brunei's strategies in protecting and conserving forests. Secondly, the preservation of peach farm forests and thirdly, how we address the challenges of forest loss and degradation. Now on this first topic of how Brunei strategise its policy in protecting and conserving forests. Despite being a small country, Brunei has gained international recognition for having a world-class tropical rainforest of which majority is still in pristine condition and protected by law past, some eight years ago in 1934, the Forest Act. Now with this Forest Act, our country are still 75% covered with trees and the said Forest Act provides the basic law for administration of the country's forests and the law also emphasises the importance of biological diversity conservation, bioprospecting, access and benefitting enforcement and forest protection. And in addition to the law, there's also in place a national forest policy to guide us on the management and utilization of our forest resources. And this policy, this national forest policy emphasises the importance of forestry to the environment. In other words, as the minister Manuel mentioned, putting forestry centre into everything else. And the water rule of research and technology, human resources development and implementation of a sum and balance forestry programmes and management strategies. In other words, in Brunei, we have strong political will and active participation of all level of society to protect and conserve our natural forest heritage. Moving on to the second topic, the preservation of peach swarm forest in Brunei, where they are very much intact and around 80% are still in good quality and believed to be the highest proportion of intact peach swarm forest in Southeast Asia. Realising the true protective and biological value of the peach swarm ecosystem, the government took immediate action to preserve the forest by banning the utilisation and this proved to be a wise decision because the indirect benefits that the peach swarm ecosystem to the country go beyond our expectations and significantly contributed to our aggressive economic initiative. The protective benefits that the peach swarm ecosystem provide against natural calamities, save huge amount in terms of life and properties and the sustainable supply of fresh water from the peach swarm ecosystem has sustained our oil and gas industry operations. We understand that there are more benefits to be had in terms of the rich biological diversity and indigenous use of our peach swarm forest as such, the sequestration of massive carbon deposits of our peach swarm ecosystem as well as in our natural forests will be our great contribution to the global climate change initiative. At present, we are opening our windows for more research collaborations in further understanding the ecosystem and to develop effective management strategies for the benefits of the global communities and the last topic is how do we address the challenge of forest loss and degradation despite each size or rather because of each size Brunei also faces some challenges on forest loss specifically the conversion of state land forests to other land users such as for shelter, agricultural and other development activities in the country. These developments are inevitable and need to be handled carefully as such there is a necessity to implement a landscape holistic approach that would address the conflicting interest for land and related resources and one such approach is the Hada Borneo initiative which is a trans boundary agreement among the country of Brunei Darussalam Indonesia and Malaysia to facilitate the conservation of the forest resources at the same time allowing development to take place sustainably. More importantly, the Hada Borneo initiative aims to minimize deforestation forest degradation and the associated loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the island of Borneo. It is a short introduction to the Hada Borneo but it does require a big forum to tell about the initiative of the Hada Borneo. Now the increasing appreciation of forest conservation in Brunei and the value of the biodiversity has also led another approach in forest management and administration We have decided to stop timber harvesting in our production forest reserve in order to maintain the integrity of our forest ecosystem This is not to say that our timber harvesting operations or the selective felling system is not sustainable It is just that we recognize the increasing value of our forest ecosystem based on its ecological services and biological diversity to be of much value than the timber resources alone Simultaneously, we also recognize the contribution of our wood base industry to the national economy As such, timber harvesting operations will now be confined in a forested area intended for forest plantation development Markets-based incentive will soon be in place to encourage the industry to invest on modern machineries in order to increase efficiency and produce value-added wood products And to complement the establishment of forest plantation the government will encourage private-public partnership through the three farmland concepts And under this concept Potential private investors will be given the opportunity to enter into an agreement with the government and invest in forest plantation establishment with compatible land uses such as ecological tourism, agroforestry and bioprospecting Ladies and gentlemen In conclusion, let me once again repeat what I said earlier that is climate change related issues like food security and natural calamities is a global issue Brunei Darussalam, being a small country but with a big heart makes our initiative more manageable by putting important sectors like forestry, agriculture, fishery and tourism under one ministry under one authority industry and primary resources is rational strategy However, smallness has its own disadvantage Any small changes in climate will have a profound impact on the country Therefore, we as a responsible member of the United Nations and its related bodies Brunei Darussalam will commit to continue to offer our tropical rainforest for use as research and study on terrestrial flora and fauna marine life as well as forest microbes and microorganisms Secondly, to continue to commit to sustainable and responsible agricultural practices we will limit our agricultural production to no more than 1% of our land area and continue to leverage on technology and know how to achieve our food security either through the use of high yield variety of crops or more productive and efficient farmers including the use of mechanisation and finally, I would emphasise that this is something that can relate to the general discussion after this to continue to collaborate with our neighbours sharing border with us in the island of Borneo and of course we cannot do this alone the issue at hand require regional regional and global actions and efforts to come up with better ideas policies, action plans strategies and implementation these policies need to be translated into actions and implementation which will certainly require funds expertise knowledge, infrastructure as well as substantive assistance financially and technically from potential partners donors, investors and developed nations this is the short content of my remark the full text of it is available online and is at the secretariat finally, I would like to conclude by expressing my sincere thanks once again to the summit organisers for giving us the platform and the opportunity to share and administration I hope we have contributed in one way or the other in meeting the objective of the summit thank you for your attention and may we have productive day ahead of us thank you minister it is an honour to welcome His Excellency under secretary Demetrio Ignacio Department of Environment and Natural Resources Philippines Your Excellencies delegates, ladies and gentlemen my talk is also not as awe inspiring as that of minister Pulgar Bidal but it is no less informative so if you will allow me to share with you some of the initiatives we are doing in the forestry sector in relation to the themes of this summit we in the Philippines have been very successful in degrading our forest our forest is now down to 7.2 million hectares or 24% of our land area one of the lowest forest cover in Southeast Asia but we have started to recover the forest that we lost to stop further depletion of our forest our president has imposed a logging bond in all natural forest nationwide in 2011 the first in our history together with intensified enforcement we apprehended 25.5 million board feet of illegally processed and illegally cut forest padak since 2011 we filed more than 1,200 cases in court the past 3 years with 186% convicted and counting as a result the number of illegal logging hotspots in our country was reduced by 84% from 197 hotspots to only 31 shown on the screen is the spatial representation of the hotspots before and after the log ban we will further reduce these hotspots until there is none from the confiscations we have been able to produce more than 146,000 school chairs and repaid more than 300 school buildings before we sell what we confiscate through public auctions however suspected illegal luggers were the ones winning the auctions to expand our forest cover our president established in 2011 the biggest reparistation program in our history the national greening program we intend to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares in 6 years we will plant more trees in 6 years than what we planted the past 50 years this is less than what they do here in Indonesia but it is already our biggest program intents to address poverty food supply biodiversity and climate change for the past 3 years we have planted more than 683,000 hectares this is equivalent to what we planted the previous 23 years this year our target is to plant 200 million trees 100,000 hectares by the end of the year we would have planted more than 1 million hectares aside from the benefits from additional forest the program has so far employed more than 168,000 persons in upland and rural communities the program also provided food crops and cash crops to the communities such as fruit trees coffee kakao raba reprisitasi bukan domain eksklusif dalam ministri kita ini program konverjensi daripada pemerintah dan resursi agri kultur reform agrarian pemerintah dan agresi kita percaya sekarang kita berada di jalan untuk menjelaskan dengan konverjensi ini by the end of the program we expect to reverse our forest situation whereby we will then have more forest areas than the graded areas and we will increase our forest cover from 24% of our land area to 30% our new forest would eventually absorb about 28 million tons of carbon every year this will help us achieve carbon neutrality in addition we estimate that about half of the total budget of the national greening program about 30 billion pesos from our national budget or about 682 million US dollars will go directly to the communities through jobs and income this will contribute to inclusive growth especially in the upland and rural areas we also impose state governance standards in our program our national greening program community based meaning the communities are the ones contracted to undertake the representation we grow our own seedlings through our network of 22 colonial nurseries those that we cannot grow we procure through competitive bidding in accordance with our procurement law all program sites are geotag meaning each sites has pictures taken progressively with GPS reading date and time when the pictures were taken and anybody can see the geotag pictures in our website we use to monitor and validate our representation efforts we use unmanned aerial vehicles the reports submitted by our field personnel are all under host and authorized by lawyers we use good governance transparency, accountability checks and balance and the latest technologies to ensure that every money we put in is used for representation we have done much in our representation but there is still much more to be done the report of the IPCC the recent report indicated that without the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions impacts from warming could get out of control these are serious implications for the Philippines we are one of the most vulnerable countries in the world on the impact of climate change as Taipun Haiyan painfully reminded us this makes our participation in this summit important there are many things that all of us can share and more things that we can learn from each other we wish you a productive summit thank you very much