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View all search resultsGovt signals about-face on COP26 deforestation pledge
Environment and Forestry minister dismisses as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030
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nvironment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar has dismissed as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforests, joined 127 other nations in making the deforestation pledge.
The agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) climate talks on Monday was at odds with Indonesia's development plans, and the global goals should be fine-tuned, said Siti, who attended the summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
"Forcing Indonesia to [reach] zero deforestation in 2030 is clearly inappropriate and unfair," she said on Twitter on Wednesday.
"The massive development of [President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s] era must not stop in the name of carbon emissions or in the name of deforestation.”
Her comments, made so soon after the pledge, underline the challenges ahead over global deforestation goals, with just three countries — Indonesia, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo — collectively accounting for 85 percent of the world's forests.
Adding to the confusion over Indonesia's position, the country's deputy foreign minister, Mahendra Siregar, denied on Thursday that zero deforestation by 2030 was even part of the COP26 pledge.
"The declaration issued does not refer at all to the ‘end deforestation by 2030'," he said in a statement.
