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RI HANDS COP-UNFCCC CHAIR TO POLAND
Jakarta, Dec 3 (ANTARA) - Indonesia transferred the chair of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-UNFCCC) to Poland in Warsaw recently, according to a report from the Polish capital.
The position was handed by Indonesian Environment Minister Rahmat Witoelar to Polish Environment Minister Prof Maciej Nowickici at the opening session of the UNFCCC's 14th conference in Poznan, Poland last Monday (December 1), according to a press release from the Indonesian Embassy in Warsaw received here Wednesday.
The 14th UNFCCC conference would run until December 12, 2008. This year's event was in line with a decision of the 13th UNFCCC conference in Bali last 2007 to hold the 15th conference in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Poznan conference, was expected to implement the Bali Roadmap and pave the way for the success of the 15th conference in Copenhagen.
As many as 50 Indonesian delegates representing various sectors had arrived in Poland since Saturday (Nov 29) along as part of 10,000 delegates from 186 countries, international organizations, and non-governmental oganizations (NGOs).
In his opening remarks, Rahmat Witoelar conveyed the Indonesian government's expectation that the 14h conference in Poznan could follow up the Bali Roadmap drawn up in 2007.
Among the noted figures who came to the conference to deliver addresses were Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UN Secretary for Climate Change Yvo de Boer, and chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change Issues Rajendra Pachauri.
At the conference, Indonesia along with Poland and Denmark also agreed to form a Troika, a group of three countries, in the efforts to overcome climate change.
Poznan Declaration
During the opening ceremony, leaders of the Troika countries, namely Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Danish Prime Minister Anders Gogh Rasmussen issued a declaration urging people to consider the current financial crisis as an opportunity to take constructive action in dealing with climate change.
The global crisis, the leaders said, must be considered as motivation to solve climate change issues in a cost-efficient way through sustainable low-emission economic growth.
Sustainable low-emission economies along with transfer of energy sources would, in turn, guarantee the existence of low-priced energy for a long time as well as become a solution of climate change issues.
The three leaders also asked people to form new instruments based on synergic cooperation between economic growth, action to protect earth's climate and public care to stop consuming non-renewable goods.
The Troika for climate change also hoped that the political momentum resulting from the recent G-20 meeting in Washington could be used to develop aspects in the last Bali Action Plan. The meeting also outlined the issues of adaptation and mitigation which need funds and technological support.
Leaders of the economy in developed countries were asked to cooperate based on their own capacity and in the spirit of responsibility to others.
Thereby, the three leaders expected that the slogan "Solidarity for Climate" would come true. ***4***
The position was handed by Indonesian Environment Minister Rahmat Witoelar to Polish Environment Minister Prof Maciej Nowickici at the opening session of the UNFCCC's 14th conference in Poznan, Poland last Monday (December 1), according to a press release from the Indonesian Embassy in Warsaw received here Wednesday.
The 14th UNFCCC conference would run until December 12, 2008. This year's event was in line with a decision of the 13th UNFCCC conference in Bali last 2007 to hold the 15th conference in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Poznan conference, was expected to implement the Bali Roadmap and pave the way for the success of the 15th conference in Copenhagen.
As many as 50 Indonesian delegates representing various sectors had arrived in Poland since Saturday (Nov 29) along as part of 10,000 delegates from 186 countries, international organizations, and non-governmental oganizations (NGOs).
In his opening remarks, Rahmat Witoelar conveyed the Indonesian government's expectation that the 14h conference in Poznan could follow up the Bali Roadmap drawn up in 2007.
Among the noted figures who came to the conference to deliver addresses were Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UN Secretary for Climate Change Yvo de Boer, and chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change Issues Rajendra Pachauri.
At the conference, Indonesia along with Poland and Denmark also agreed to form a Troika, a group of three countries, in the efforts to overcome climate change.
Poznan Declaration
During the opening ceremony, leaders of the Troika countries, namely Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Danish Prime Minister Anders Gogh Rasmussen issued a declaration urging people to consider the current financial crisis as an opportunity to take constructive action in dealing with climate change.
The global crisis, the leaders said, must be considered as motivation to solve climate change issues in a cost-efficient way through sustainable low-emission economic growth.
Sustainable low-emission economies along with transfer of energy sources would, in turn, guarantee the existence of low-priced energy for a long time as well as become a solution of climate change issues.
The three leaders also asked people to form new instruments based on synergic cooperation between economic growth, action to protect earth's climate and public care to stop consuming non-renewable goods.
The Troika for climate change also hoped that the political momentum resulting from the recent G-20 meeting in Washington could be used to develop aspects in the last Bali Action Plan. The meeting also outlined the issues of adaptation and mitigation which need funds and technological support.
Leaders of the economy in developed countries were asked to cooperate based on their own capacity and in the spirit of responsibility to others.
Thereby, the three leaders expected that the slogan "Solidarity for Climate" would come true. ***4***
