Construction Materials For Greenhouse Gas Results In Indonesia Capai 24.6 Percent

JAKARTA - Indonesia is recognized as still using construction materials that produce greenhouse gas emissions to date. In fact, in other countries, it has started using zero emission construction materials or zero emissions.

Special Staff to the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (Minister of PUPR) Firdaus Ali gave an example, Europe is currently no longer using ordinary cement, but cement that is zero carbon. Likewise in Singapore.

"Meanwhile, Indonesia is still using construction materials that contribute up to 24.6 percent of greenhouse gas emissions," Ali said at the 'Sustainable Infrastructure Forum' event in Jakarta, on Wednesday, March 15.

Ali said the United Nations (UN) had announced the total population of 8 billion people on November 15, 2022. If there was no previous apocalypse, he said, this would be the largest population to ever inhabit the planet.

"What is the consequences? Yes, we need clean water, we need food, need security energy, we need infrastructure to connect with each other," he said.

He continued, increasing the amount of carbon emissions from greenhouse gas effects is one of the causes of global warming. This then triggered climate change and was marked by increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather.

"Well, the worst threat we face is the most massive hydrometeorological disaster," Ali explained.

Ali even explained about the disaster that Indonesia would face if it did not immediately stop the effects of the greenhouse gas.

"The worst threat we are facing is the 2022 incident, where many places in the world face the most massive hydrometeorological disasters, I call one of the disasters in Pakistan, 1482 people died. Then, the biggest disaster was also experienced by Solo," he said.

Therefore, Ali appealed to all relevant stakeholders to work together to achieve this desired target. "So, we need our collective enthusiasm to solve the problem (carbon emissions)," he concluded.