Greenpeace slams Indonesia’s ‘non-transparent’ plan to cut carbon emissions

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Greenpeace slams Indonesia’s ‘non-transparent’ plan to cut carbon emissions
While Jakarta pledges to slash its greenhouse gas output by 29% by 2030, Greenpeace says it does not think Indonesia will be able to achieve it

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Greenpeace is not impressed with Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry after it unveiled its ambitious new target to reduce carbon emissions.

The government of one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters promised to slash its greenhouse gas output by 29% by 2030, but Greenpeace said it does not think Indonesia will be able to achieve it.

“The government’s target to reduce carbon emissions will never be achieved with its current energy policy, and without new measures to stop peatland and forest destruction, which contributes nearly two-thirds of the country’s emissions,” said Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s Climate and Energy Campaigner, Arif Fiyanto said.

He said that President Jokowi’s commitment to provide an additional 35,000 megawatts of capacity, with over 60% coming from new coal power plants, would emit about 1.3 billion tonnes of carbon between 2019 to 2030.

“It’s critical that Indonesia moves away from coal, and embrace what could potentially be abundant sources of clean and renewable energy,” he said. (READ: Greenpeace head: Southeast Asia needs more climate leadership)

Yuyun Indradi, Forest Campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, also said the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) draft that the government will submit for the December climate negotiations in Paris has “no transparency.”

Not only did it fail to propose new measure to curb peatland and forest destruction, which make up 63% of Indonesia’s emissions, he said it also failed to propose reforms needed to support the private sector’s no-deforestation commitments.

“There’s no transparency – no hard figures in the draft INDC, and the government refuses to release maps showing who controls forest lands,” he said.

The reactions come after Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya announced on Wednesday, the country’s pledge to go beyond Indonesia’s 2009 agreement to slash emissions by 26% – or 41% with international assistance – by 2020.

The final draft submission states Indonesia has set aside 12.7 million hectares (31.4 million acres) of forest for conservation to help realize its target. The government also hopes to derive nearly a quarter of its vast energy needs from renewable sources within a decade.

“Beyond 2020, Indonesia envisions an even bolder commitment to emission reductions,” said the draft submission distributed by the ministry.

Indonesia, along with several other emissions-intensive economies, had been under pressure to submit its target before the UN climate summit in Paris.

“The Indonesia baseline uses the business as usual scenario of emission projections starting in 2010, based on historical trajectory (2000-2010), projected increases in the energy sector, and the absence of mitigation actions,” the submission says.

It is hoped that a new pact to cut global emissions applicable to all countries will be hammered out at the long-awaited conference. – with reports from Agence France-Presse

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