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Jokowi talks climate change, food security at G7 summit
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo reiterated Indonesia’s Group of 20 aim of achieving a sustainable energy transition, while also appealing for an end to global food supply chain disruptions caused by the war.
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France's President Emmanuel Macron and Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo talk prior to a bilateral meeting at the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau, Germany, on June 27. (Reuters/Ludovic Marin/Pool )
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo appealed to the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations during a meeting in Germany that the world needed to address the global climate and food crises prompted by the war in Ukraine.
The President was in attendance at the G7 summit as one of five world leaders invited to join this year’s proceedings. As current president of the Group of 20 (G20), he is on a broad-based mission to ensure that global recovery efforts at the forum of the biggest economies are not torpedoed by the excesses of the conflict.
Speaking at a G7 working lunch with other leaders at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps on Monday, Jokowi reiterated Indonesia’s G20 aim of achieving a clean and renewable energy transition as a means of mitigating climate change risks that many developing nations face.
He underlined that the risks of climate change were not just detrimental to the health of vast populations, but also to the livelihoods of many, such as farmers and fishermen.
“We appeal for the support of all G7 countries for Indonesia’s G20 presidency,” he said as he closed his speech, according to a Palace press statement.
At a G7 summit session on food security and gender equality, Jokowi called on all G7 and G20 countries to address the looming food crisis that also threatens developing countries to the point of hunger and poverty.
He cited a World Food Program report estimating that this year, some 323 million people were in danger of facing acute food insecurity.
