 Ladies and gentlemen colleagues and friends, it's also for me a great pleasure to be here at the first Asia Bond Challenge conference in Palembang and thanks to you governor for inviting us the whole Bond Challenge family into this wonderful region I Arrived yesterday and already enjoyed a little bit at least of the city, and I'm looking forward to see more in the future I'm impressed to see so many high-level representatives from the Asian region here at this conference and also from other parts of the world with this Conference you establish the first the third Regional track of the Bond Challenge it started in Central America and the Caribbean two years ago And we also saw a regional process in Africa, and I'm really delighted that we kick off today the regional process for the Bond Challenge in the Asian region Alex nerdyn you really have been in this process from the very beginning You are our partner. You are a bit a co-father of this Bond Challenge initiative You participated in the first meeting in 2011 when the German government Launched the idea of the Bond Challenge with restoring with the target to restore degraded land to reforest to Reforest landscapes forest landscapes in a scale of 150 million hectares by 2020 this was really a landmark Target and for me colleagues and friends the forest landscape restoration Is something like a masterpiece of our? 2030 agenda for sustainable development it addresses so many issues we need to address to Reachieve a sustainable world to keep the world inside the planetary boundaries our economies and our societies forest landscape restoration Can benefit in multiple? Perspectives it can serve the Paris agreement to reach the two degrees target, and we will absolutely be unable to come close to the 1.5 if we don't look at the storage capacities as Heel the soul back and said the natural soul Storage capacities for carbon in our forests and and our landscape We the forest landscape restoration can also serve The itchy Nagoya targets under the Convention of Biological Diversity We will not be able to achieve The biodiversity targets without looking into our forests without looking into natural forest as well as in Sustainable is sustainably managed for us forest landscapes restoration also helps to protect soil under threat and Also our water resources it can create economic and social benefits, and if we in to implement it properly it will be also part of Developing inclusive societies Ladies and gentlemen the bond challenge can provide all these wonderful benefits But we have to be aware that we are just talking about a plus. It's a plus from red plus the reduced emissions from deforestation and destruction of forest and When we developed this idea we started under the climate regime first we talked about Reforestation and afforestation And then we thought that we should widen our scope and that we should look into this landscape as well the concept of Reforestation or the Restruction of degraded forest landscapes Is only meaningful colleagues and friends if you also look again and again in reducing Deforestation we have to stop finally deforestation. It's a long way to go I know but we first have to start with reducing deforestation and finally get it to net zero I know that for many countries forest countries in the world. This is a huge challenge Not only in this region also in Latin America in Brazil for example at the Amazon region in Africa as well. It's something like the challenge Like my countries and others have to face to get away from fossil sources and driving machines for our economies Stopping deforestation and phasing out fossil use are two coins of the same side and Looking at into what we have achieved We have to realize that on both tracks. We have not been Enough successful at the moment. We are losing Forests in the scale of 13 million hectares each and every years Colleagues this is the size of the Carago or if you put it in into European terms It's a size of Greece that we are losing each and every year If we fail continue to fail in stopping deforestation Then we will fail to achieve all our sustainability targets and this regards I really want to applaud the Indonesian government For the recent decisions you took you have been engaged in in red and red plus over so many years But the recent decisions are moratorium for new deforestation For the production of palm oil the decision to protect them remaining peatland and in the addition your commitment to the bond challenge. These are really These are really leadership Activities and we hope that many regions and many countries in the world will follow your example Colleagues here in Indonesia and South Sumatra You have strong partners at your site I want to take take this opportunity to thank our colleagues from Norway For their long-standing Leadership on red plus you really kicked off this whole debate You were so committed over such a long time and I think we have to thank you for this engagement Germany spent already 120 million euros for the bond challenge activities for many projects something around 40 projects in partnering countries I'm happy to announce that we will add another 80 million Until 2020 support or to support our partners in the pond bond challenge Family we believe that this is the right investment into the future After 200 years of destruction of forest we have to enter a new century of forest landscape restoration Alex Nordin you said yesterday It's a wonderful reception That bond the bond challenge is needed for your country for your region Here in South Sumatra and for the future generations in South Sumatra These sentences are true, but not only for South Sumatra, but for the whole world. Thank you a lot Thank you, Mr. Johan