Climate change is one of the key global issues which is the concern of many parties. In various climate change negotiations, main issues that have always been discussed are deforestation, including in Indonesia. Indonesia does have a unique position, apart from being a country vulnerable to climate change impacts, Indonesia is also a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions derived from deforestation (land use change and deforestation) and forest fires and peat swamps. It seems that the position is well understood by the President, so in the international climate change forum, Government of Indonesia is committed to taking part in the handling of climate change, including the reduction of GHG emissions by one of them through the restoration of forest and peat swamp. Indonesia's commitment was also presented in the Bonn Challenge forum initiated by the German Ministry of the Environment and IUCN. A global forum on the environment, forestry and natural resources ministers with the main objective is a global effort to reduce deforestation rates by 150 million hectares of forest land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030. The approach used in restoration is by building global partnerships and focus on landscape units. In COP 21 Paris December 2015, APP succeeded in lobbying the Bonn Challenge to be involved in the forest and land restoration agenda.

It is said that this is part of a private sector commitment that has been doing business in extractive industries on climate change, saving the environment, saving forests and peat and conflict resolution. WALHI assesses that landscape-based restoration initiatives in at least five provinces namely South Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan, as no more than a green washing effort from APP and corporations that have failed to manage natural resources, with indications of fires and other ecological disasters, conflict, and poverty. On 9-10 May 2017, the city of Palembang South Sumatra hosted the Bonn Challenge. The WALHI National Executive, WALHI South Sumatera, WALHI Jambi, WALHI West Kalimantan together with civil society organizations in South Sumatra who are members of Civil Society for the Rescue of Forests responded to this agenda with various activities aimed at exposing the facts of environmental and human crimes committed by APP in Indonesia, to show that APP's landscape-based restoration offer is no more than just part of the corporate green washing. Statement of civil society organizations can be seen at http://www.wp_walhi.local/2017/05/08/stop-green-washing-tegakkan-hukum-sekarang-juga/