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Indonesia to 'walk the talk' on deforestation, despite COP26 U-turn
Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforests, was among 137 countries at the COP26 climate summit in Britain that signed an agreement to end deforestation by 2030.
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This handout picture taken and released on November 11, 2021 by the Indonesian Foreign Ministry shows Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (right) meeting with Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the foreign ministry in Jakarta. (AFP/Handout)
Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforests, was among 137 countries at the COP26 climate summit in Britain that signed an agreement to end deforestation by 2030.
But days later Indonesia backtracked, making clear that its own interpretation of the pledge was less absolute than ending deforestation completely.
Highlighting progress in reducing deforestation to its lowest in two decades, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi told British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss that Indonesia would transform its forest and land-use sectors.
"Indonesia's concrete achievements on forestry sector is beyond doubt," she told a news conference in Jakarta after meeting Truss.
"I underlined that Indonesia does not want to be trapped in rhetoric. We prefer to walk the talk."
Forest fires had dropped by 82 percent in 2020, while emissions in 2019 fell by 40.9 percent compared to four years earlier, she said.
Environmentalists criticised Indonesia's chaotic about-face, saying it was at odds with the Glasgow declaration.
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