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View all search resultsIndonesia finalizing new NDC, likely to keep old emissions cut target
The ministry is planning to outline Indonesia's pledge to reduce emissions by 29 percent independently -- or 41 percent if with international assistance -- by 2030, the same target outlined in the first NDC submitted in 2016 as a part of the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Hundreds of activists and students took to the the streets in Jakarta on September 20, 2019, during the Climate Strike movement to demand the government takes climate change mitigation more seriously. (JP/A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil)
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ndonesia is likely to maintain its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the new nationally determined commitment (NDC), a pledge made by nations to cut their emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the Environment and Forestry Ministry has stated.
The ministry is planning to outline Indonesia's pledge to reduce emissions by 29 percent independently -- or 41 percent if with international assistance -- by 2030, the same target outlined in the first NDC submitted in 2016 as a part of the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The ministry is finalizing the new NDC and will submit it to the UN next month.
Prior to the 25th UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, in Madrid in December last year, climate observers and the UN urged participating nations to upgrade their commitments through their respective NDCs to cut emissions but the request has mostly fallen on deaf ears. Experts have said that the COP25 summit was a failure. Furthermore, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that the international community had lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation and finance to tackle the climate crisis.
The ministry’s director general of climate change control, Ruandha Agung Sugardiman, defended Indonesia's planned NDC, saying that such a commitment was not merely about numbers and that it would instead focus on demonstrating the quality of Indonesia’s efforts.
“Our ambition is not just to cut the numbers but more importantly focus on what steps we can undertake to increase [our efforts in reducing greenhouse gasses],” Ruandha said on the sidelines of a public consultation on Tuesday.
The ministry has been seeking inputs, inviting environmental groups, experts and public officials to hear their opinions on the planned NDC before submitting it in March.
