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RI PROMOTING INCORPORATION OF OCEAN ISSUES IN CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
Jakarta, June 11 (ANTARA) - Indonesia is promoting the incorporation of ocean issues in the talks on climate change being held in Bonn, Germany, an official report said.
"In order to further the goals of the Manado Ocean Declaration issued in Manado last May 2009, the National Council of Climate Change - NCCC (Dewan Nasional Perubahan Iklim - DNPI) was given the mandate by all 74 countries and 13 inter-governmental organizations that attended the World Ocean Conference (WOC) 2009 to introduce the Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) and to endeavor the addition of the oceans dimension to the agenda of climate change talks in UNFCCC," a press release of DNPI in Bonn, said on Thursday.
A series of meetings on climate change are taking place in Bonn, Germany, June 1-12, 2009, and undertaken by the United Nations Framework of Climate Change (UNFCCC) in preparing COP-15 UNFCCC in Copenhagen, December 2009.
These meetings include those of the 8th Ad Hoc Working Group on Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)m, the 6th Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA), the 30th Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the 30th Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI).
The delegation of the Republic of Indonesia (DELRI) at the Bonn meeting comprises Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry of People's Welfare Indroyono Soesilo, Indonesian Ambassador to Germany Edi Pratomo and NCCC Secretary Agus Purnomo, as well as Provincial Head of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of North Sulawesi Xandramaya Claurine and Lecturer of Sam Ratulangi University of Manado Dessy Mantiri.
The Indonesian delegation on Wednesday (June 10) promoted the MOD to be included in the document of AWG-LCA.
They said the impact of climate change on sea-level rise and marine environment system in the long-run would lead to a decrease in food security from the oceans, lowering people's economy and decreasing the quality of human welfare. Therefore, it was imperative that coastal and marine dimension should be included in the COP-15 UNFCCC discussions.
The argument was supported by Assistant Director General of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) Ichiro Nomura, and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner, who stated that aquatic environment system, fisheries and fisheries-culture should enter the framework of global climate change discussions.
Among the impacts of climate change are the rise of the sea-level temperature, coral bleaching, habitats pattern changes of many marine species, changes in weather and wind patterns that influence the marine current patterns, marine biota productivity and decrease oxygen concentration in the sea. Those impacts would later lead to a decrease in fish population in the sea. ***3***
"In order to further the goals of the Manado Ocean Declaration issued in Manado last May 2009, the National Council of Climate Change - NCCC (Dewan Nasional Perubahan Iklim - DNPI) was given the mandate by all 74 countries and 13 inter-governmental organizations that attended the World Ocean Conference (WOC) 2009 to introduce the Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) and to endeavor the addition of the oceans dimension to the agenda of climate change talks in UNFCCC," a press release of DNPI in Bonn, said on Thursday.
A series of meetings on climate change are taking place in Bonn, Germany, June 1-12, 2009, and undertaken by the United Nations Framework of Climate Change (UNFCCC) in preparing COP-15 UNFCCC in Copenhagen, December 2009.
These meetings include those of the 8th Ad Hoc Working Group on Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)m, the 6th Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA), the 30th Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the 30th Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI).
The delegation of the Republic of Indonesia (DELRI) at the Bonn meeting comprises Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry of People's Welfare Indroyono Soesilo, Indonesian Ambassador to Germany Edi Pratomo and NCCC Secretary Agus Purnomo, as well as Provincial Head of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of North Sulawesi Xandramaya Claurine and Lecturer of Sam Ratulangi University of Manado Dessy Mantiri.
The Indonesian delegation on Wednesday (June 10) promoted the MOD to be included in the document of AWG-LCA.
They said the impact of climate change on sea-level rise and marine environment system in the long-run would lead to a decrease in food security from the oceans, lowering people's economy and decreasing the quality of human welfare. Therefore, it was imperative that coastal and marine dimension should be included in the COP-15 UNFCCC discussions.
The argument was supported by Assistant Director General of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO) Ichiro Nomura, and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner, who stated that aquatic environment system, fisheries and fisheries-culture should enter the framework of global climate change discussions.
Among the impacts of climate change are the rise of the sea-level temperature, coral bleaching, habitats pattern changes of many marine species, changes in weather and wind patterns that influence the marine current patterns, marine biota productivity and decrease oxygen concentration in the sea. Those impacts would later lead to a decrease in fish population in the sea. ***3***
