Indonesia’s leading climate change advisor said yesterday he thinks global consensus on climate change cannot be reached, but hinted at a national strategy currently underway that would allow Indonesia to move forward on tackling the effects of environmental degradation without waiting for another round of international negotiations.
“We have prepared for the eventuality of a non-binding agreement by looking for strategies that go beyond [what was achieved at Copenhagen,]” said Rachmat Witoelar, the head of the Indonesian Council on Climate Change, which has executive power over national climate change policy. Mr. Witoelar was speaking to members of the Foreign Correspondents Club in Jakarta shortly after returning from a trip to India, where he held several closed-door meetings with his climate change counterparts in Delhi.
Indonesia – an archipelagic nation with vast forest cover and huge natural resource deposits – is one of the countries that climate change scientists say will be hardest hit by rising CO2 levels, with the poor most likely to suffer from effects such as flooding, deforestation and rising food prices due to failed harvests.
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Source: Eco Business, 2010-02-11, Link
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