JAKARTA FEBRUARY 14, 2008
The group will comprise the presidents of Indonesia, Poland and Denmark, the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, UNFCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and other world leaders.
"The UN Secretary General has agreed with my views and recommendation of establishing a high-level contact group," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told reporters at the presidential office yesterday (13/2).
At 9.00am WIB (Indonesian Western Time) Ban Ki-moon called Yudhoyono, discussing two international issues, climate change and the progress of situation in Burma.
Ban Ki-moon, said Yudhoyono, gave Indonesia an honorary award for the success of the conference that resulted the Bali Road Map.
At the Bali Conference, said Yudhoyono, developed countries' obligations explicitly intersected those of developing countries.
"Technology transfer, mitigation, financing, reforestation and adaptation are already becoming more concrete," he said.
The Bali Road Map became a starting point for the conferences in Warsaw, Poland and Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Heading towards the new post-Kyoto Protocol in 2012," said Yudhoyono.
In the near future, Yudhoyono will assign respective ministers to consider about what can be done in line with the cooperation framework that has been discussed with Ban Ki-mooon.
In the mean time, Ari Muhammad, WWF Indonesia's Climate Change Program Coordinator, said that the House of Representatives (DPR) must supervise budget use in order to deal with climate change.
Infrastructure development and agriculture, he said, should be directed to overcome global warming, which impacts on climate change.
"This can help alleviating the minimum budget for overcoming climate change adaptation," he said during a discussion with environmental reporters.
The failure of the Environment State Ministry in socializing climate change over 10 years, he went on, was caused by the lack of response from other sectors.
In addition, climate change problems are very much related to leadership from the provincial to regency/city levels.
"Governors and regents must integrate development in many sectors (in terms of climate change)," said Ari.
The power of civilians must also move simultaneously and must not only be centered in one location.
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