President Jokowi Reminds The Importance Of Synchronizing Climate Change Policies

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo said it is very important to synchronize policies between developed and developing countries regarding climate change.

This was conveyed by the President when holding a CEOs Forum meeting with several large British investors, in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, 1 November

"All of us, including developed countries, must show more concrete steps in terms of climate control, especially in terms of funding support for developing countries in making energy transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy," the President said in a written statement quoted by Antara.

President Jokowi expects adaptation funding of US$100 billion from developed countries to be met immediately in order to accelerate efforts to deal with climate change.

“In recent years, Indonesia has shown concrete steps in terms of climate control. Our current deforestation rate is the lowest for 20 years, the rate of forest fires is reduced by 82 percent. Indonesia will also restore 64 thousand hectares of mangrove land. This is very important because mangroves store 3-4 times more carbon than peatlands,” said the President.

Therefore, President Jokowi believes that Indonesia will be able to fulfill its commitment in 2030 in the Paris Agreement, namely an unconditional 29 percent emission reduction.

"Indonesia has adopted the Long-Term Low Carbon and Climate Resilience Strategy 2050, as well as a detailed road map to achieve the net-zero emission target by 2060 or earlier," said the President.

During the meeting, President Jokowi said that the issue facing the world is how the world can immediately overcome the COVID-19 pandemic so that the world's economic recovery can run faster. The Head of State explained that currently, the condition of COVID-19 in Indonesia has greatly improved.

“The daily number of cases has fallen very far from the peak of 56,000 cases on July 15, 2021, to only around 400-700 cases in the last weeks. Indonesia has also injected more than 187 million doses of vaccine. And by the end of the year, more than 50 percent of the Indonesian population will have received dose 2," said the President.

Also attending to accompany the President at the meeting were Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir.

Also attending were Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya, Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimulyono, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the UK Desra Believe, and Chairman of KADIN Arsjad Rasjid.