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Clean energy: A farmer refills an empty jug on Sept. 2, 2023, with water from a community well in Keliki village, Gianyar regency, Bali. The well uses a pump that runs on energy from a solar power plant that was provided by state oil and gas giant Pertamina to support the country’s transition to clean energy. (Antara/Dewa Ketut Sudiarta Wiguna)
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ndonesia’s per capita emissions, while still lower than the world’s major emitters, are rising steadily as the country’s economy expands by around 5 percent annually.
Per capita emissions in developing countries increased significantly over the last two decades, according to data from the World Bank and International Energy Agency (IEA), while they declined, on average, in developed nations.
Indonesia’s per capita emissions increased 136 percent from 2000 to 2022, while in the same period India’s increased 100 percent, China’s 176 percent and Vietnam’s 280 percent, according to Our World in Data.
The per capita emissions of the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, on the other hand, fell by between 26 percent and 43 percent in the same period, the same data shows.
Indonesia’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions, recorded at 2.6 tonnes in 2022, are still far lower than those of the US and China, which were 16.5 tonnes and 7.2 tonnes, respectively, in the same period.
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) director Tiza Mafira said that despite the comparatively low per capita emissions, Indonesia should aim to bring the figure down, as it had committed in the 2016 Paris Agreement to help limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
She also urged the government to find the additional US$146.4 billion in financing necessary to cut its carbon emissions by 31.89 percent by 2030, based on conditional assumptions in its enhanced nationally determined contribution (ENDC).
