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G20 environment ministers to issue joint communiqué pushing climate action
In a bid to help attain Indonesia’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency priority issues and to spur global climate action, environment ministers of the G20 will adopt a joint communiqué in August.
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Environment and Forestry Ministry Climate Change Control Director General Laksmi Dhewanthi (center) speaks at the second G20 Environment Deputies Meeting and Climate Sustainability Working Group (EDM-CSWG) in Jakarta on June 21. (KLHK/File)
In a bid to help attain Indonesia’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency priority issues and to spur global climate action, environment ministers of the G20 will adopt a joint communiqué in August.
Earlier this week, hundreds of delegates from G20 countries – except China and Argentina who joined virtually – came up with a “pre-zero” draft of the environment ministerial communiqué at the second session of the Environment Deputies Meeting and Climate Sustainability Working Group (EDM-CSWG), one of the working groups under Indonesia’s G20 presidency.
The working group previously met for its first session in Yogyakarta in March, and would conclude at the G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting in Bali in August this year.
The communiqué is expected to help Indonesia attain its G20 presidency goals according to the three priority issues: global health architecture, digital transformation and clean energy transition.
“[The] pre-zero draft will be discussed … [and] in August, it will be declared as a Ministerial Communiqué of Environment and Climate Sustainability,” Environment and Forestry Ministry Climate Change Control Director General Laksmi Dhewanthi said in a press conference on Tuesday.
In November last year, leaders of the G20 major economies agreed on a final statement that urged "meaningful and effective" action to limit global warming, but angered climate activists by offering few concrete commitments.
Although the G20 pledged to stop financing coal power overseas, they set no timetable for phasing it out at home, and watered down the wording on a promise to reduce emissions of methane — another potent greenhouse gas.
