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DelegasiRI Is Preparing For The Indonesian Delegation's Diplomacy At The UN Climate Change Conference

During the preparation moment of the Indonesian Delegation for COP29, Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK), Siti Nurbaya, conveyed that Azerbaijan as the COP29 Presidency has launched "in a solidarity for a green world" as the theme of COP29. The theme focuses on the need to invest today to save the future, with planning based on two pillars, namely "increasing ambition" and "enabling action".

The first pillar focuses on integrating key elements to ensure all parties are committed to ambitious and transparent national plans. Meanwhile, the second pillar reflects the crucial role of finance as the main tool to turn ambition into action and reduce emissions, adapt, and address losses and damages due to climate change.

"This is to ensure inclusive outcomes based on shared solutions," said Minister Siti during the Kick-off Meeting of the Indonesian Delegation's Preparation for COP29 in Jakarta, Friday (02/08/2024).

From the emphasis of the COP29 Presidency on these negotiation issues, Minister Siti hopes that Indonesian negotiators can gain an overview of the main negotiation landscape at COP29 and at the same time can delve deeper into the developments that occurred during the inter-sessional period leading up to COP29, as well as seek gaps and opportunities to position Indonesia in the best possible way based on Indonesia's national interests.

She exemplified that for the establishment of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) or new climate funding targets for the period 2025 onwards for developing countries mandated to be decided at COP29.

Indonesia calls on all Parties to reflect on experiences and not repeat the same mistakes in realizing the flow of funding to developing countries amounting to 100 billion USD/year that should have been achieved since 2020.

Indonesia is emphasizing this so much because we support the same thing as Azerbaijan in achieving an increase in funding that supports a fair and equitable transition towards low-emission, climate-resilient development. Minister Siti explained that Indonesia has shown "Leading by Example." Indonesia has shown leading by example in the ambition to reduce carbon emissions and has been recognized internationally as a superpower in climate change control. Therefore, at the COP 29 negotiations to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22, 2024, the Indonesian delegation must be able to negotiate to ensure that all countries fulfill their obligations to control climate change in line with Indonesia's national interests. In Indonesia's efforts to control climate change, it has made significant progress in gathering a series of modalities and developments, including increasing the target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 29% to 31.89% through national funding, and up to 41% to 43.20% through international support submitted to the UNFCCC in 2022 (source: First NDC document, KLHK 2016; Updated NDC document, KLHK 2021; Enhanced NDC document, KLHK, 2022). Secondly, Indonesia has policies including the FOLU Net-sink 2030, Long Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience (LTS-LCCR) 2050, and the vision of Net Zero Emission 2060 or sooner. Third, Indonesia also has regulations or legal bases and institutions for the implementation of NDC and the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement in the form of Presidential Regulation Number 98/2021 concerning the Implementation of Carbon Economic Value. Fourth, Indonesia also has several infrastructures for the implementation of transparency frameworks, including the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System SIGN-SMART, the National Registry and MRV System, and the Vulnerability Index Data Information System (SIDIK), which recently won the United Nations Public Service Award.

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