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View all search resultsEconomic growth target in climate pledge draft slammed
Indonesia will consider three scenarios of gross domestic product growth in deciding on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions to be cut in its new climate mitigation pledge to be submitted to the United Nations in September.
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Participants hold placards on April 21, 2024, as they march on a street ahead of Earth Day on April 22, annual environmental awareness day, in Jakarta. (AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)
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ndonesia is rushing to submit its new greenhouse gas emission reduction pledge to the United Nations climate body before the September deadline, with the government considering the 8-percent economic growth target for the document, a move critics say trades environmental protection for economic gains.
Indonesia missed the February deadline to submit a new nationally determined contribution (NDC), a document reflecting a country’s climate mitigation action plan that must be submitted every five years.
The Environment Ministry is eyeing to submit the latest NDC document to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the deadline on Sept. 20, or about three weeks before this year’s climate summit (COP30) kicks off in Belém, Brazil.
Indonesia has submitted several NDC documents since 2015, with the latest, called an enhanced NDC, was submitted in 2022. The document outlined Indonesia’s aim to reduce its emissions by 31.89 percent independently or 43.2 percent with international assistance from the 2010 baseline by 2030.
The new document, expected to outline the national climate policy between 2031 and 2035, will be designed with “absolute targets”, said Deputy Environment Minister Diaz Hendropriyono recently.
The approach would give Indonesia quantifiable emissions targets depending on several scenarios of economic growth, rather than a percentage of a baseline as stipulated in previous NDCs. The gross domestic product growth scenarios considered for the document will be 6.3 percent, 7 percent and 8 percent.
“Should Indonesia have high economic growth, emissions will certainly increase as well. We’ll measure our commitment [based on the GDP scenario],” Diaz said after the preparation meeting for the Indonesian delegation for COP30 in Jakarta on Wednesday.
