A mockup of a planet earth is displayed at the Rheinaue park during the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko Jokowi Widodo called for stronger global commitments to tackle climate change this week, but environmentalists are not buying it.
They complain that Indonesia’s emissions-reduction target has not budged and that national policies are still being pursued at the expense of the environment.
In a prerecorded statement aired at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) hosted by the Netherlands on Tuesday (Jan 26), Jokowi said that the impacts of climate change were “very real” for archipelagic nations like Indonesia.
Countries are not adapting fast enough to climate change and financing for adaptation has fallen short, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.
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This aerial photo taken on November 10, 2019, shows a destroyed house after cyclone Bulbul hit Koyra, Bangladesh.
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If world leaders don’t seriously step up their game to adapt to the climate crisis, we’ll see catastrophic human and economic losses everywhere, a new report from the world’s top global environmental authority warns.
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United Nations scientists have told us time and time again that we must curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change. But the fifth edition of the UN Environment Program’s Adaptation Gap Report, released early Thursday morning, says those efforts must be coupled with strategies to adapt to the warming world. That’s because even if emissions drop to zero, we still face a climate unlike anything humanity has ever seen.