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RI WATCHES OUT INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS' MANOEUVRES TO ABOLISH KYOTO PROTOCOL
Jakarta, Oct 12 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and other developing countries need to watch out for the manoeuvres of the developed nations wishing to abolish the Kyoto Protocol convention on climate change.
The statement was made by Head of the Climate Change National Council Secretariat Agus Purnomo at a press conference in Jakarta Monday on the famaliarization of the outcome of the climate change talks in Bangkok which ended on Sunday.
"We are worried about the manoeuvres of the industrialized countries which had been trying to abolish the Kyoto Protocol with a view to accommodating the US dislike of the protocol," said Agus, head of the Indonesian delegation to the Climate Change Talks.
He said that in the forum, a number of developing countries in G-77 and China had proposed figures of reducing emissions for the industrialized countries on the basis of a top-down criteria based approach in accordance with the obligation of Annex-1 nations in the Kyoto Protokol.
But a number of advanced countries like members of the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Canada, have proposed individual figures on targets of carbon emission reduction on the basis of a bottom-up pledges approach whose figures are much lower of those proposed by the developing countries and rejected the proposed emission reduction figures.
The bottom-up approach pioneered by the United States, Agus said, with the intention to set a target for the global reduction, and to later distribute the target to the countries in the world according to their respective capacity.
The developing countries rejected the bottom-up approach, because the advanced countries will surely try to set a lower target of the low carbon emission cut, which did not match the set carbon emission cut of 40 percent on the basis of the Kyoto Protocol by 2020.
In the meantime, the Intergovernmental Panel of the World Council for Climate Change (IPCC UNFCCC) said that world researchers stated that in 2100 there will be a raise in global temperature by up to 2 degrees centigrade which will cause a change in global climate.
The industrialized countries under Annex-1 of the Kyoto Protocol therefore need to lower their carbon emission on an aggregate basis to 40 percent by 2020.
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The statement was made by Head of the Climate Change National Council Secretariat Agus Purnomo at a press conference in Jakarta Monday on the famaliarization of the outcome of the climate change talks in Bangkok which ended on Sunday.
"We are worried about the manoeuvres of the industrialized countries which had been trying to abolish the Kyoto Protocol with a view to accommodating the US dislike of the protocol," said Agus, head of the Indonesian delegation to the Climate Change Talks.
He said that in the forum, a number of developing countries in G-77 and China had proposed figures of reducing emissions for the industrialized countries on the basis of a top-down criteria based approach in accordance with the obligation of Annex-1 nations in the Kyoto Protokol.
But a number of advanced countries like members of the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Canada, have proposed individual figures on targets of carbon emission reduction on the basis of a bottom-up pledges approach whose figures are much lower of those proposed by the developing countries and rejected the proposed emission reduction figures.
The bottom-up approach pioneered by the United States, Agus said, with the intention to set a target for the global reduction, and to later distribute the target to the countries in the world according to their respective capacity.
The developing countries rejected the bottom-up approach, because the advanced countries will surely try to set a lower target of the low carbon emission cut, which did not match the set carbon emission cut of 40 percent on the basis of the Kyoto Protocol by 2020.
In the meantime, the Intergovernmental Panel of the World Council for Climate Change (IPCC UNFCCC) said that world researchers stated that in 2100 there will be a raise in global temperature by up to 2 degrees centigrade which will cause a change in global climate.
The industrialized countries under Annex-1 of the Kyoto Protocol therefore need to lower their carbon emission on an aggregate basis to 40 percent by 2020.
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