emission reduction
A recent report on climate change revealed that East Kalimantan as one of the largest carbon emitter as the province has been depending on oil, gas and coal for its economic development since 1970s.
In 2020, half of Indonesia’s population will be living in the cities leading to increase transportation, 12 percent per year, dominated by motorcycles.
Ministry of Industry took on the initiative to push on green cars industry as part of the effort to achieve 29 percent of emission reduction by 2030 from transportation sector.
Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) said that Paris Agreement ratification, which recently a law, is the manifest of state’s political responsibility to reduce climate change impacts.
Inter-department cooperation was needed to set up the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) document before submitted to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in September 2016.