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COP26 president urges Indonesia to set more ambitious climate target
While acknowledging Indonesia's work on addressing the climate crisis, United Kingdom Business Secretary and COP26 president Alok Sharma expressed his hope of seeing a refined pledge from Indonesia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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United Kingdom Business Secretary and COP26 president Alok Sharma (right) walks with Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar in Jakarta on Monday. (Handout/Environment and Forestry Ministry)
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ive months ahead of the annual climate summit, Indonesia is being urged to declare a more ambitious pledge in order to prevent catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis.
United Kingdom Business Secretary Alok Sharma, who also serves as the president of COP26, visited Indonesia from Sunday to Tuesday as part of his global tour to urge governments around the world to be more ambitious in efforts to mitigate the climate crisis in the run-up the climate summit.
Hosted in partnership between the UK and Italy, the summit is slated to take place in the Scottish city of Glasgow in November, a year later than planned due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the objectives of the tour is to achieve more ambitious net-zero emissions targets and nationally determined contributions (NDCs), or emissions-reduction pledges, from signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, including Indonesia.
“I know that the government here [in Indonesia] is obviously doing a lot of work. I hope that the government will be able to come forward with any revised plans and targets than they had before COP26,” Sharma said in an interview with The Jakarta Post and other Indonesian media on Tuesday.
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Countries that have signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 agree to limit warming to below 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius to prevent catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis. The latest studies suggest that countries will need to reach a net-zero target for all greenhouse gases by 2068 to limit warming below the agreed threshold.
