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97244
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 08:30
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GOVT OPTIMIZES CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAM BILATERAL COOPERATION
Jakarta, Dec 28 (ANTARA) - The government will boost bilateral cooperation in an effort to draw funding relating to climate change anticipation, an official said.
"In some years ahead, we will intensify discussions and bilateral meetings with partner countries to convince them to fund our climate change program," Secretary to State Minister for National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Syahrial Loetan said in Jakarta Monday.
He said this is necessary following the deadlock in agreements reached in the climate change conference in Copenhagen last week.
He said his office was quite optimistic in securing funding on behalf of climate change. This, he said, is apparent in the interest of several countries in funding the climate change program in Indonesia during the climate change conference in Copenhagen, including Sweden and Norway.
He said that even the United Kingdom which had earlier made a commitment to give a grant worth 50 poundsterling, which was an increase compared to the previous commitment of only 10 million poundsterling. It was planned that the money will be disbursed in 2010.
He also said that his office was quite optimistic with the climate change program in Indonesia. Right now, he said, his office is improving the climate change program mechanism.
He also said he was optimistic that by also making a proposal for funding by the end of January next year Indonesia would be able to secure funding from the industrialized countries, because the requirements for making the proposal like a list of projects deserving funding (yellow book) while the Indonesian Climate Trust Fund (ICTF) had already been formed, increasing the confidence of the donor countries.
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"In some years ahead, we will intensify discussions and bilateral meetings with partner countries to convince them to fund our climate change program," Secretary to State Minister for National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Syahrial Loetan said in Jakarta Monday.
He said this is necessary following the deadlock in agreements reached in the climate change conference in Copenhagen last week.
He said his office was quite optimistic in securing funding on behalf of climate change. This, he said, is apparent in the interest of several countries in funding the climate change program in Indonesia during the climate change conference in Copenhagen, including Sweden and Norway.
He said that even the United Kingdom which had earlier made a commitment to give a grant worth 50 poundsterling, which was an increase compared to the previous commitment of only 10 million poundsterling. It was planned that the money will be disbursed in 2010.
He also said that his office was quite optimistic with the climate change program in Indonesia. Right now, he said, his office is improving the climate change program mechanism.
He also said he was optimistic that by also making a proposal for funding by the end of January next year Indonesia would be able to secure funding from the industrialized countries, because the requirements for making the proposal like a list of projects deserving funding (yellow book) while the Indonesian Climate Trust Fund (ICTF) had already been formed, increasing the confidence of the donor countries.
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