Rahayu Saraswati Talks At The UN Climate Change Summit: Rich Countries Must Help Poor Countries

JAKARTA - The House of Representatives' Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Agency (BKSAP) attended the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP-29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Member of the DPR's BKSAP, Rahayu Saraswati Djojohadikusumo conveyed the commitment and strategic steps that the global world can take in realizing climate adaptation.

The message from BKSAP itself was conveyed at the COP-29 Parliamentary, Saturday (16/11), which is a special forum for members of the global state parliaments at the United Nations Climate Change Summit. At the forum, Rahayu Saraswati conveyed several steps that the world parliaments could take to overcome climate change.

"First, encourage education and training for local residents so that they have the skills needed to adapt to the climate in a sustainable manner," said the woman who is familiarly called Sara, Monday, November 18.

Sara said parliament must ensure a transparent and inclusive decision-making. The next important step is global parliamentary cooperation in overcoming climate change.

"Regarding inclusiveness on the issue of climate change, we need to ensure the representation of women, groups of people with disabilities, and indigenous peoples (indiginous people) in parliament," he explained.

In front of lawmakers for COP members, Sara also mentioned the inequality between developed countries and developing countries regarding the handling of carbon because developed countries are the ones who contribute the most to the climate crisis.

"Progressive countries are exploiting developing countries in the era of the Industrial Revolution, namely when carbon emissions are starting to grow," Sara said.

Sara reminded developed countries to provide assistance to developing countries for development that can overcome climate change. Moreover, COP-29 resulted in a new agreement in the form of financial support from rich countries to countries that were worst affected in the southern hemisphere, one of which was as obtained by Indonesia.

This member of the Commission in the DPR in charge of industrial affairs also said that financial support is needed for developing countries that have an important role in climate adaptation. That way, said Sara, developing countries can also transform as sustainable countries.

"So poor and developing countries have the right to have access to financial assistance for climate adaptation. The business and business world must also play a role in this adaptation," he said.

For information, Indonesia received a green funding agreement of around 1.2 billion (around Rp20.18 trillion) for the development of clean energy at the United Nations climate summit (COP-29).

Green funding, which is the main discussion agenda for COP29, is the funding needed to overcome the climate crisis. For example, for the transition to clean energy, building infrastructure that is resistant to climate change, to building an early warning system.

On the other hand, Sara also mentioned Indonesia's steps in overcoming climate change. Indonesia is known to set a target of reducing emissions by 31.89 percent by 2030 with its own efforts, and 43.2 percent with international assistance.

Meanwhile, by 2060, Indonesia wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 100 percent or net zero emissions. Indonesia has also always participated in COP since it was first held in 1995 and held its 13th COP in December 2007 in Bali.

"Indonesia in general can adapt very well to climate change even though with a population of around 280 million people or the fourth largest population in the world with a very large demographic bonus, which is about more than 52 percent of generation Z and millennials," Sara explained.

Based on the Global Climate Atlas, Indonesia will contribute 1.7 percent of total global emissions in 2021. According to Sara, the demographic bonus as a challenge for Indonesia can be given a role in helping climate adaptation.

"Similarly, Indonesia is able to overcome other challenges faced by the global world due to climate change," said the legislator from the DKI Jakarta III electoral district.

"Indonesia is able to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic that had hit the previous world," concluded Sara.