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INDONESIA, UK TO WORK CLOSELY AHEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT
Jakarta, Oct 29 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and the UK have agreed to forge cooperation in information exchange and adopt a common stand ahead of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, 2009.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached the agreement in a phone conversation on Wednesday night, presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said on Thursday.
In the phone conversation, Brown pledged to pay more attention to the issue of financing sources for the developing countries to preserve forests and play a strategic role in coping with climate change, Dino said.
"Prime Minister Brown appreciated President Yudhoyono`s leadership, both at home and abroad particularly with regard to climate change. He also praised the Indonesian government for its policy and decision to set itself the target of lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020," he said.
Brown described as "bold and ambitious" the Indonesian target while many other countries were still confined to discourses, he said.
"This is something that has come under the spotlight. Prime Minister Brown himself has described it as a bold target," he said.
Dino said Indonesia also had pledged to meet the upper limit of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 41 percent in case of a global commitement to that effect.
Brown also promised to step up cooperation with Indonesia in preserving the latter`s forests to reduce the impact of climate change, Dino said.
"Our forests play a strategic role in addressing climate change issues," he said. ***4***
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached the agreement in a phone conversation on Wednesday night, presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said on Thursday.
In the phone conversation, Brown pledged to pay more attention to the issue of financing sources for the developing countries to preserve forests and play a strategic role in coping with climate change, Dino said.
"Prime Minister Brown appreciated President Yudhoyono`s leadership, both at home and abroad particularly with regard to climate change. He also praised the Indonesian government for its policy and decision to set itself the target of lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020," he said.
Brown described as "bold and ambitious" the Indonesian target while many other countries were still confined to discourses, he said.
"This is something that has come under the spotlight. Prime Minister Brown himself has described it as a bold target," he said.
Dino said Indonesia also had pledged to meet the upper limit of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 41 percent in case of a global commitement to that effect.
Brown also promised to step up cooperation with Indonesia in preserving the latter`s forests to reduce the impact of climate change, Dino said.
"Our forests play a strategic role in addressing climate change issues," he said. ***4***
