Collaborative Stakeholders Launch Second Round Green Investment

Jakarta, March 28 (Antara) - Collaborative stakeholders have launched the "Second Round Green Investment Towards Innovation and Productivity in Indonesia" campaign to support the Indonesian Government in mainstreaming climate change issues. Executive Chair of the National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) Rachmat Witoelar said during the launching at Mandarin Hotel, here, on Wednesday night that the collaborative stakeholders consist of DNPI, Matsushita Gobel Foundation, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the Indonesia Chief Editors Forum. "First of all, I would like to express our appreciation to the Indonesia Chief Editors Forum who have joined in this occasion. I do believe that press has a critical role in shaping our dialogue towards stakeholders engagement in promoting green initiatives and public`s views and informed opinions on climate change," he said. Witoelar added the roots of climate change are anthropogenic, hence the man-made problems need to be tackled by man. The media has a significant role to harness the knowledge, power and interest of the public to be more aware of the climate change problems. "The stakeholders of all levels rely on the partnership with the media to spread the message of climate change impacts and solutions to the citizens," he said. Meanwhile, President Director of PT Gobel International Rachmat Gobel said the Matsushita Gobel Foundation has been supporting the collaborative efforts towards green industry through the first round of green investment that provided technical roundtable on green technology and green industry. "The second round green investment is launched to face the new challenge to boost high economic growth at the same time with the mitigation efforts in reducing greenhouse gasses emission," he said. According to Gobel, the efforts in reducing greenhouse gasses emission has become a global market trend as well as the increasing demand of eco-green products. "As one of the industrial players, we see that global market trend is heading toward the eco-product market. Hence, the understanding of green technology and its implementation of green industry is critical to increase the competitiveness," he said. Generally, the Second Round Green Investment Towards Innovation and Productivity in Indonesia was aimed to share ideas and experiences on the potential for green investments that is enabled by infrastructure projects and related issues by elaborating various aspects of policy as well as technical and practical issues on the ground. This event was also supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Indonesia Chief Editors Forum and attended by many experts and scientists as well as environmental NGOs.