Jakarta, Ekuatorial – Indonesia’s emission profile on coal had increased five fold for the past decade catching up on land use change contribution for releasing greenhouse gas emission, said an official on Friday (3/7), in Jakarta.

Based on SIGN or Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory System, set up by Ministry of Environment and Forestry, coal had contributed to 2,290,082 tons of CO2e in 2013. It was only 444,738 tons of CO2e in 2000.

“From energy sector, coal and transportation have been increasing rapidly in releasing greenhouse gas emissions, especially, on power plants development and fossil fuels. I suppose that’s the consequences of more demand on energy and more people,” said Kirsfianti Linda Ginoga, director of Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV).

Meanwhile, transportation sector had tripled, from 56,454,652 tons of CO2 in 2000 to 142,318,307 tons of CO2.

SIGN serves as database on Indonesia’s emission contribution especially from six sectors, — land use change, agriculture, energy, waste, industry and product use, and companies –. The system is a simplified form of greenhouse gas emission inventory guidelines from UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC.

In 2013, energy sector had contributed to a total of 494,998,490 tons of CO2e and 37,010,157 tons of CO2e for industry and product use sector. Meanwhile, agriculture and waste sectors recorded 117,883,956 tons of CO2e and 116,094,600 tons of CO2e, respectively, in 2012.

“We have yet to get a total number on land use change and companies because we still need to include more data,” said Ginoga adding that the system could also predict future emission released based on Business as Usual (BAU) scheme.

Arif Fiyanto, Climate and Energy campaigner of Greenpeace Indonesia, said Indonesia must abandon coal completely and shift to more clean and sustainable energy sources.

“Greenpeace has been warning Indonesian government for the past few years on significant increase carbon emission from coal use,” said Fiyanto. “Carbon emission [contributed] from energy sector may still lower than forestry sector. But, it will rise significantly for the next five years.”

He cited on the 35 Giga Watt power plant development planned by the government which would mostly be fueled by coal.
“60 percent of those power plants are coal fueled power plants risking more carbon emission released from energy sector,” he said. “Ministry of Environment and Forestry needs to issue a regulation that ensure these power plants development will not instead making more pollution. With strong regulation, it will be difficult to built coal fueled power plants.” Fidelis E. Satriastanti

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