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Indonesian parliament passes law to ratify Paris Agreement

Xinhua, October 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Indonesian parliament passed the law to ratify Paris Agreement on climate change with unanimous approval from lawmakers Wednesday.

The law gives the nation a strong legal basis to take steps in addressing global low-emission commitments resulted from 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) held in Paris, France last year.

"The new law will bind all stakeholders in Indonesia to take part in efforts to control climate change in the nation," A spokesperson of parliament commission to oversee environmental issue Gus Irawan Pasaribu said.

Indonesia Forestry and Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya extended government's appreciation for the enactment of the law. She said that President Joko Widodo would sign the law this week.

"Basically, we already made good progress. I am not worried about implementation of the law. We just need to maintain the consistency and improvements," the minister said.

Indonesia signed the Paris Agreement in April this year. The current government planned to reduce the emission by 29 percent with its own efforts and 41 percent with foreign assistance by 2030.

With the plan, Indonesia was expected to maintain carbon emission between 1.4 to 2.1 Gigaton of CO2 in its activities nationwide between 2020 and 2030.

Indonesia's CO2 emissions stood at 760 million metric tons last year, making it the world's fourth largest emitter, according to the data released by environment watchdog agency World Resources Indonesia. Enditem