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View all search resultsGreenhouse gas emitted from forest and peatland fires across Indonesia has reached the same amount of 74 coal-fired power plants, potentially hurting the country’s “net sink” aim in the forestry sector by 2030.
Despite supporting United Nations’ resolutions pertaining to state responsibility on climate change, Indonesia has shown a weak commitment to protecting vulnerable communities in its existing and upcoming climate legislations, according to environmental groups.
After a meeting with the United Kingdom Climate Change Committee (UK CCC), Environment Minister Mohammad Jumhur Hidayat raised a plan to form a similar independent body in Indonesia to strengthen the country’s climate actions.
Indonesia will become a global center for a high-integrity carbon market that would contribute to real and measurable climate action, said Indonesia’s COP30 delegation leader and special presidential adviser on energy and environment Hashim Djojohadikusumo.
During a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Jakarta, President Prabowo Subianto apologized for missing the COP30 climate change conference in Brazil, but promised to send a strong delegation to support climate initiatives conveyed in the summit.
The government missed the September deadline to submit the new climate pledge ahead of the Brazil climate summit in November, but claimed that the new commitment would be more ambitious than the last one submitted in 2022.
Among the measures that Indonesia will implement as part of its effort to halt global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is to push for energy transition to renewables and reforest more than 12 million hectares of degraded land.
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