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RI TO INVITE 18 ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS
Jakarta, July 11 (ANTARA) - Indonesia plans to invite 18 environment ministers to a ministerial meeting ahead of a climate summit in Poland later this year.
"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken the initiative to invite 18 environment ministers present at the just-concluded G-8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, to attend a ministerial meeting prior to the climate summit in Poland at the end of 2008," Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said on Friday.
Indonesia would extend official invitations to the 18 environment ministers at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, he said.
The meeting would reiterate Indonesia's call for greenhouse gas emitting countries to set their mid-term target of reducing their gas emissions, he said.
At the climate summit held in the Indonesian island of Bali last year, the world's major greenhouse gas producers agreed to a roadmap calling for a reduction of gas emissions by 50 percent in 2050.
"They all have agreed to the mid-term target. But when we asked for their mid-term target they all refused for various reasons," he said.
He said the refusal had something to do with their calculation to achieve the target.
If all the major greenhouse gas producing countries agree to slash their gas emissions by up to 50 percent in 2050, gas emissions would decline by 20 percent in 2020.
"We do not demand too much. We only ask industrialized countries which have agreed to the gas emission reduction to fulfill their promise," he said.
"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken the initiative to invite 18 environment ministers present at the just-concluded G-8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, to attend a ministerial meeting prior to the climate summit in Poland at the end of 2008," Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said on Friday.
Indonesia would extend official invitations to the 18 environment ministers at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, he said.
The meeting would reiterate Indonesia's call for greenhouse gas emitting countries to set their mid-term target of reducing their gas emissions, he said.
At the climate summit held in the Indonesian island of Bali last year, the world's major greenhouse gas producers agreed to a roadmap calling for a reduction of gas emissions by 50 percent in 2050.
"They all have agreed to the mid-term target. But when we asked for their mid-term target they all refused for various reasons," he said.
He said the refusal had something to do with their calculation to achieve the target.
If all the major greenhouse gas producing countries agree to slash their gas emissions by up to 50 percent in 2050, gas emissions would decline by 20 percent in 2020.
"We do not demand too much. We only ask industrialized countries which have agreed to the gas emission reduction to fulfill their promise," he said.
