Jakarta, Ekuatorial – Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, called on multilateral cooperation among countries to tackle climate change issues on his official speech at the United Nations Climate Summit 2014, in New York, Tuesday (23/9).
“On multilateral cooperation, I believe that we need to redouble our efforts to conclude a new legally binding agreement for post 2020 climate change framework. I must underline here that the agreement should uphold the principle of equity covering mitigation, adaptation, and frameworks for implementation. We must exert our utmost efforts to produce a new Climate Change Agreement in Paris next year,” said Yudhoyono citing on the upcoming United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference which will be held by the end of this year.
In his four-minute speech, Yudhoyono concluded that Indonesia stands ready to strengthen cooperation with their partners at bilateral and regional level. “Partnership is a must,” he said as quoted in his written speech.
Furthermore, he added that a set of actions at the national level need to be implemented. Indonesia, he said, has already taking steps to address climate change.
There were four steps that the country had taken which he had addressed among world’s leaders in the Summit.
“Indonesia has voluntarily pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020. That target will go up to 41 percent with international support,” he said. “To better achieve this pledge, we have put in place moratorium for new licenses on primary forests and peat land since May 2011.”
In addition, he said Indonesia, which has been battling deforestation and land degradation, had established REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) Agency.
“Third, we are now exploring the potency of our blue carbon ecosystems as a carbon sink. This could support the global effort to maintain the temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius,” he said. “And fourth, Indonesia has signed the letter of acceptance of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol. “ Ekuatorial Team.[:]
