Hundreds of business players, government officials and activists from all over the world will gather here for a UN conference on biodiversity to address the depletion of natural resources at an unprecedented rate.
The conference will be held from Monday to Wednesday
The conference, to be officially opened by the Indonesian State Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta, will be held just 31 days before the start of the International Year of Biodiversity.
"The Jakarta meeting on business and biodiversity is a major milestone in engaging the business community as a full and active partner in protecting life on earth," Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity said in a press statement.
The conference will highlight biodiversity challenges at a time of economic recovery, opportunities in industrial sectors that directly affect biodiversity, and strategies for managing biodiversity risks as well as measuring, valuing and reporting business impacts.
Recommendations from the conference will be submitted to the Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, next year.
Indonesia, which has ratified the CBD, was tagged as one of the most environmentally diverse nations on the planet.
Indonesia has 12 percent (515 species) of the world's mammals, the second-highest level after Brazil, and 17 percent (1,531 species) of the total species of birds, the fifth-highest number in the world.
The country is also home to 15 percent of amphibian and reptile species and 37 percent of fish species in the world.
However, many of the species are under threat due to among others, rampant illegal logging, forest fires and pollution.
Hatta warned that rising temperatures due to human-induced climate change would be another serious threat to the loss of biodiversity in Indonesia.
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