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EU, RI cooperation to focus on environment, climate change
Environmental and social development, as well as climate change, will be the major objectives for the European Unionâs (EU) development cooperation plan with Indonesia this year and this focus is based on the trend in 2014 when the environment accounted for 60 percent of EU development funds to Indonesia
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nvironmental and social development, as well as climate change, will be the major objectives for the European Union's (EU) development cooperation plan with Indonesia this year and this focus is based on the trend in 2014 when the environment accounted for 60 percent of EU development funds to Indonesia.
The acting European Union Ambassador to Indonesia, Colin Crooks, explained that EU-Indonesia development cooperation in 2015 has as its objective the support of 'transformational change for the Indonesian people', which would be carried out through environmental development programs.
Among the efforts that the EU will fund in Indonesia this year are the improvement of biodiversity, sustainable peat land management and capacity-building in lowering carbon emissions, particularly in the Aceh province, which will begin at the end of the year.
The EU will also assist Indonesia in improving sustainable consumption and production by promoting climate-friendly policies in its development plans.
'We are shifting our role with Indonesia from mere direct bilateral assistance to a more partnership approach, which we will continue to pursue further,' Colin told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
The EU and its member states contributed up to 570 million euros in development assistance to Indonesia in 2014, with 341 million going into the field of the environment and climate change. Other development sectors assisted by the EU include education, infrastructure, food security, sanitation, economic cooperation and good governance. (++++)
