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88785
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 01:29
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RI, EU AGREE TO WORK FOR COPENHAGEN MEETING'S SUCESS
Jakarta, Nov 9 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and the European Union (EU) agreed on Monday to work for the success of the UN climate change conference to be held in Copenhagen next month.
"We discussed climate change... and (agreed to) do our best to make the Copenhagen meeting a success," Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt who led an EU troika visit to Indonesia said after paying a courtesy call on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential office here.
Sweden holds the current rotating EU presidency for the second half of this year.
Bildt underscored the need for all parties to take part in the creation of a new agreement on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol which will expire in 2012.
He said his meeting with the Indonesian leader also touched on a number of issues, including human rights, and the handling of post-financial crisis problems.
He lauded the Indonesian government for its success in encouraging human rights protection in the past few years.
Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal meanwhile said Bildt came to Jakarta to represent the EU to sign a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the 27-nation bloc and Indonesia.
The agreement was signed by Bildt, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and acting director general of the European Commission's external relations Karel Kovanda.
The Copenhagen conference is the final phase of a series of climate change meetings since the UN climate change conference held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali in December 2007.
Indonesia has voluntarily set its short-, medium- and long-term targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 to 2050.
At the recent meeting of Group of 20 rich and developing nations (G20) in Pittsburgh, US, President Yudhoyono pledged a 26-percent cut in Indonesia's carbon emissions by 2020 - and increase it to 41 percent with international support.
Indonesia had made climate change a key priority in its national budget for 2010, reaching half a billion dollars, which includes preservation and expansion of the country's tropical rain forest cover.
Yudhoyono's commitment is seen as Indonesia's willingness and the kind of strong leadership that is critical to helping the world avoid climate chaos.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic country with a very vast sea surface and home to the world's third largest forest area. Both sea and forest could help absorb CO2 emission.***3***
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"We discussed climate change... and (agreed to) do our best to make the Copenhagen meeting a success," Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt who led an EU troika visit to Indonesia said after paying a courtesy call on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential office here.
Sweden holds the current rotating EU presidency for the second half of this year.
Bildt underscored the need for all parties to take part in the creation of a new agreement on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol which will expire in 2012.
He said his meeting with the Indonesian leader also touched on a number of issues, including human rights, and the handling of post-financial crisis problems.
He lauded the Indonesian government for its success in encouraging human rights protection in the past few years.
Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal meanwhile said Bildt came to Jakarta to represent the EU to sign a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the 27-nation bloc and Indonesia.
The agreement was signed by Bildt, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and acting director general of the European Commission's external relations Karel Kovanda.
The Copenhagen conference is the final phase of a series of climate change meetings since the UN climate change conference held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali in December 2007.
Indonesia has voluntarily set its short-, medium- and long-term targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 to 2050.
At the recent meeting of Group of 20 rich and developing nations (G20) in Pittsburgh, US, President Yudhoyono pledged a 26-percent cut in Indonesia's carbon emissions by 2020 - and increase it to 41 percent with international support.
Indonesia had made climate change a key priority in its national budget for 2010, reaching half a billion dollars, which includes preservation and expansion of the country's tropical rain forest cover.
Yudhoyono's commitment is seen as Indonesia's willingness and the kind of strong leadership that is critical to helping the world avoid climate chaos.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic country with a very vast sea surface and home to the world's third largest forest area. Both sea and forest could help absorb CO2 emission.***3***
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