Indonesian president slammed for ‘wait-and-see’ approach on climate action
During last month’s climate summit of world leaders, top emitters announced more ambitious climate targets in a bid to combat climate change.
Missing from that list was Indonesia, whose president, Joko Widodo, instead called on industrialized countries to set an example for other nations to follow.
Climate and policy experts in Indonesia say his failure to announce a bold target for achieving net-zero emissions is a missed opportunity for Indonesia to show global leadership based on its success in reducing deforestation.
They also criticized a government proposal, not yet officially endorsed by the president, to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070 20 years later than most other major emitters.
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As another outbreak of forest fires in Indonesia sends harmful smoke drifting across parts of Southeast Asia, researchers and environmental activists have urged Jakarta to step up efforts to prevent a repeat of the last major haze crisis in 2015.
Emergencies were declared in six Indonesian provinces on Sumatra island and in Kalimantan last week as fires raged, while neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia issued health warnings about the air pollution that is heading their way. Arie Rompas, a Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner who is from Kalimantan on Borneo island, said that with no rain since July, peatland fires were intensifying in areas burned in the 2015 disaster.
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Indonesia has also recorded significant drops in the loss of tropical primary rainforest.PHOTO: AFP
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