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House urges government ministries to work together to implement Paris Agreement
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An artwork entitled 'One Heart One Tree' by artist Naziha Mestaoui is displayed on the Eiffel Tower on Nov. 29, 2015 ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. (AP/Thibault Camus)
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he House of Representatives has urged the Environment and Forestry Ministry to increase its coordination with the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, as well as other relevant ministries, in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement.
During a meeting with the House's Commission VII overseeing natural mineral resources and the environment on Thursday, lawmakers told Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar that the government ministries should work together to develop renewable energy and other sources of energy so that the country's target of reducing emissions 29 percent by 2030 would be achieved.
"The commission also asked the minister to increase the budget allocations for programs and activities related to water source conservation, lake ecosystem conservation and customary forests in Indonesia as an attempt to protect the environment," the ministry's spokesman, Djati Witjaksono Hadi, said in a press statement.
Furthermore, the House also urged the government to speed up the closing of mine pits that have claimed many lives, mainly of children, in Kalimantan.
