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Fri, 07/11/2008 - 21:27
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RI FORMS NATIONAL BOARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Jakarta, July 11 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government here Friday announced the formation of a National Board on Climate Change (DNPI) chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and involving 17 government departments/ministries as well as the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG).
"The DNPI's formation was formalized through a presidential regulation signed last July 4, after about one year of preparatons," Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar told a press conference at his official residence.
The DNPI would work in the spirit of implementing the National Action Plan on Climate Change adopted in November 2007 or serve as the vehicle to achieve the plan's objectives in dealing with and mitigating the impact of climate change, he said.
The board is led by the president as chairman and the coordinating ministers of the people's welfare and of economic affairs as vice-chairmen with the environment minister serving as chief executive officer.
Also in the board's membership were the minister/state secretary, the cabinet secretary, and the ministers of finance, home affairs, foreign affairs, energy and mineral resources, forestry, agriculture, industry, public works, national develoment planning, marine resources and fisheries, trade, research and technology, transportation, health, and the head of the Meteorology and Geophysyics Agency (BMG).
In more specific terms, the DNPI's tasks comprised the formulation of national policies, strategies, programs and activities to control climate change, coordination of activities to implement the board's mission to deal with climate change in terms of adaptation, mitigation, transfer of technology and funding.
Also part of the board's brief was the formulation of policies to regulate the carbon trade system and mechanism, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the climate-change control policies implemented.
Internationally, the board was expected to reinforce Indonesia's position in persuading the developed countries to show greater responsibilty for efforts to control climate change.
Witoelar also said, in the future, the board would tightly oversee development plans in both the public and private sectors so as to prevent the country from becoming a major producer of greenhouse gas emissions.
"The DNPI's formation was formalized through a presidential regulation signed last July 4, after about one year of preparatons," Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar told a press conference at his official residence.
The DNPI would work in the spirit of implementing the National Action Plan on Climate Change adopted in November 2007 or serve as the vehicle to achieve the plan's objectives in dealing with and mitigating the impact of climate change, he said.
The board is led by the president as chairman and the coordinating ministers of the people's welfare and of economic affairs as vice-chairmen with the environment minister serving as chief executive officer.
Also in the board's membership were the minister/state secretary, the cabinet secretary, and the ministers of finance, home affairs, foreign affairs, energy and mineral resources, forestry, agriculture, industry, public works, national develoment planning, marine resources and fisheries, trade, research and technology, transportation, health, and the head of the Meteorology and Geophysyics Agency (BMG).
In more specific terms, the DNPI's tasks comprised the formulation of national policies, strategies, programs and activities to control climate change, coordination of activities to implement the board's mission to deal with climate change in terms of adaptation, mitigation, transfer of technology and funding.
Also part of the board's brief was the formulation of policies to regulate the carbon trade system and mechanism, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the climate-change control policies implemented.
Internationally, the board was expected to reinforce Indonesia's position in persuading the developed countries to show greater responsibilty for efforts to control climate change.
Witoelar also said, in the future, the board would tightly oversee development plans in both the public and private sectors so as to prevent the country from becoming a major producer of greenhouse gas emissions.
