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Indonesia looks to sea for new emissions-reductions pledge
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Participants hold placards as they march on a street ahead of Earth Day, the annual environmental-awareness day, in Jakarta on April 21, 2024. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
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ndonesia is planning to include the maritime sector in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions-reduction pledge as the government kicks off efforts to draft the document amid pressure for a more ambitious climate target.
The government is expected to finalize the second nationally determined contribution (NDC) document in the next few months, with a plan to submit it to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by August this year, said Laksmi Dhewanthi, the climate change control director general of the Environment and Forestry Ministry.
First endorsed at the UN Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, the NDCs refer to a document containing pledges made by nations to cut their emissions under the UNFCCC to reach the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Member states must submit and update their pledges every five years.
The international deadline for the new NDC document is March next year.
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Countries, including Indonesia, had updated their respective NDCs at least two times by 2022, when all were called to increase their targets given the large gap between the planned emission cuts and the figure needed to limit the temperature rise by 2030.
“Every country must submit and implement its NDCs with an increased [emissions-reduction] target,” Laksmi said during a press briefing on Monday. “So these targets are not going down, but will always go up.”
