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Advancing credible carbon markets and biodiversity conservation in Indonesia
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Indonesia Carbon & Biodiversity Alliance
Indonesia holds some of the world's richest carbon and biodiversity assets. ICBA works to support their responsible development and protection as ecological and economic resources for the country and its communities.
What We Do
ICBA - the Indonesia Carbon Credit and Biodiversity Alliance - is an association that brings together stakeholders from industry, government, local communities, and global partners to support the development of Indonesia's carbon credit market and biodiversity conservation.
Inform
Making policy, market developments and science accessible through insights, briefings and publications.
Strengthen integrity
Supporting transparency, credible standards and confidence in Indonesia's carbon and biodiversity markets.
Build capacity
Developing knowledge and capability across the sector.
Insights
Plain-language analysis of the policy, regulation, science and practice shaping carbon and biodiversity in Indonesia.
Biodiversity & Nature
Protecting Indonesia’s Biodiversity Through Connected Habitats
Protecting Indonesia’s wildlife means looking beyond individual forests to the habitat connections and shared land-management decisions that sustain biodiversity.
ICBA · 5 Nov 2026
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Climate & Nature Finance
Beyond Project Boundaries: Protecting Indonesia’s Forests and Creating Economic Opportunity
ICBA explores how Indonesian jurisdictional REDD+ can connect forest protection, regional development and international climate finance.
ICBA · 21 Oct 2026
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Carbon Markets
ICBS 2026: Five Priorities for Indonesia’s Carbon & Biodiversity Market
Five priorities emerged from ICBS 2026: greater market clarity, stronger integrity, earlier access to capital, better MRV and data, and a deeper connection between carbon finance, nature and communities.
ICBA · 1 Oct 2026
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Biodiversity & Nature
Raja Ampat Deserves a Future Beyond Mining
Few places on Earth carry the ecological significance of Raja Ampat. Home to some of the richest marine biodiversity on the planet, surrounded by forests that continue to support countless species, and shaped by Indigenous communities who have cared for these landscapes and waters for generations, the archipelago has become a symbol of Indonesia’s natural heritage.
Rob Raffael Kardinal, Chairman, Indonesian Carbon Credit & Biodiversity Alliance (ICBA) · 28 Sept 2026
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Integrity & Standards
What does “high integrity” actually mean in a carbon market?
“High integrity” has become one of the carbon market’s most widely used expressions, but the phrase does not always describe the same thing. Integrity is better understood not as a badge attached to a credit, but as a series of distinct tests.
ICBA · 23 Sept 2026
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MRV & Data
MRV in practice: how methodology, data and assurance shape carbon outcomes
Carbon markets reduce complex environmental outcomes to a single unit of account. The route to that unit — methodology, evidence design, sampling, reporting and independent assurance — differs enormously between project types. Understanding those differences is central to assessing any carbon claim.
ICBA · 22 Sept 2026
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Events
Where the sector comes together, led by our flagship annual summit, Indonesia Carbon and Biodiversity Summit 2026.
Indonesia Carbon & Biodiversity Summit (ICBS)
8–9 September 2026 - BaliICBA's flagship event: a director-level gathering of regulators, buyers, standards bodies, developers and capital, centred on the future of carbon and biodiversity in Indonesia.
Agenda, speakers and registration are hosted on the dedicated ICBS site.
Join the alliance advancing carbon integrity and biodiversity conservation in Indonesia.
Membership connects your organisation to ICBA's network, knowledge, programmes and the conversations shaping carbon and biodiversity in Indonesia.
