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Indonesia seeks to improve skills of its climate negotiators
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A mangrove forest adjacent to the Graha Indah residential area in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. (JP/Muthi Kautsar)
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ndonesia has moved to improve the skills of its negotiators at global climate forums to better represent the country's interests.
The Environment and Forestry Ministry and the Foreign Ministry will work together to prepare negotiators for the 26th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been pushed back from November to 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
As a party of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC, Indonesia is obliged to contribute to halting global climate change and submitted a pledge to the UNFCCC secretariat to curb its greenhouse gas emissions through its nationally determined contribution (NDC).
Indonesia’s first NDC was drafted in 2016, with the country pledging to keep its emissions to 29 percent below a business-as-usual (BAU) projection, or up to 41 percent below BAU with international assistance, by 2030.
Indonesia updated its NDC this year, but maintained the same old target that had activists worried about the future climate action of one the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
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“One of the main elements of our NDCs is forestry and land use [policies]. Our negotiators must convey this information well; what are our accomplishments so far and our climate change strategies to realize our NDCs,” Deputy Environment and Forestry Minister Alue Dohong said in a press briefing on Wednesday.
