This policymakers' summary of the report, Low Carbon Development Report: A paradigm shift towards a green economy in Indonesia, identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while simultaneously helping Indonesia achieve its climate objectives, and preserve and improve the country’s natural resources.

This report identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets while simultaneously helping Indonesia to achieve its climate objectives and to preserve and improve the country’s natural resources. It finds that a low carbon growth path can deliver an average GDP growth rate of 6 percent annually until 2045 and that, when combined with the sustainable utilisation of its natural resources, Indonesia can reduce its GHG emissions by nearly 43 percent by 2030.