Arief Wijaya
Forest, Climate And The Oceans Senior Manager, WRI Indonesia

Arief Wijaya is the Climate, Forests, and the Oceans Senior Manager of WRI Indonesia, working mainly on Open Climate Network, NDC Partnership, Global Forest Watch, Forest Legality and Global Restoration Initiative. His work focuses on tropical forest landscapes and their impacts on climate change, drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, MRV REDD+, and national GHG accounting.
Prior to joining WRI, he worked at Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics in Hamburg, Germany and focused on the analysis of drivers of deforestation/reforestation and spatial modeling of tropical landscape dynamics in the Philippines and Ecuador. Previously, he spent 4 years working at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Indonesia, and is responsible to integrate socio-economic and spatial data for analyzing drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia, Vietnam, Peru, Brazil, Cameroon and Zambia. He was also an observer of UN Climate negotiations, following the progress of REDD+ and climate change mitigation negotiations.
He holds a PhD in Geoinformatics from Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany and MSc in Natural Resources Management from International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) The Netherlands.
Apart from the work, he loves cooking and enjoys Asian culinary, listening music and watching movies.
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Open Climate Network (Inactive)
Bringing together independent research institutes and civil society groups from key countries around the world to monitor national progress on climate change policy.
Part of ClimateGlobal Restoration Initiative
WRI is partnering with governments, businesses, and communities around the world to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land.
Part of ForestsTools, Reporting, and Analysis for Climate (TRAC)
TRAC provides standards, tools, data, and analysis for use by countries, cities, and companies as the foundation for large-scale emissions reductions.
Part of ClimateNew Climate Economy
The New Climate Economy (NCE), a flagship project of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, brings together government, business and economic leaders to enhance global and national understanding of how climate action can drive economic, social and development objectives.
Part of Climate