标题:Progress and Challenges of Combating Climate Change in Indonesia: An Interview with Prof. Rachmat Witoelar, the President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change
期刊名称:ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies/Österreichische Zeitschrift für Südostasienwissenschaften
印刷版ISSN:1999-2521
电子版ISSN:1999-253X
出版年度:2012
卷号:5
期号:2
DOI:10.4232/10.ASEAS-5.2-10
出版社:Society for South East Asian Studies/Gesellschaft für Südostasienwissenschaften
摘要:Professor Rachmat Wito elar, former Minister of the Environment in Indonesia, heads the National Council on Climate Change in Indonesia (DNPI) and Indonesia's delegations to negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This interview was conducted during the most recent UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn in May 2012 and contains refer-ences to specifi c agreements in that process. As the Kyoto Protocol – which includes binding targets for countries in the Global North (so-called Annex 1 countries) – is drawing to an end, negotiations revolve around a new protocol, but last year's high level talks in Durban only came up with a fairly vague result – the Durban Plat form – without binding emission reduction targets. In this context, Indonesia's announcement to pursue its own unilateral reduction target is signifi cant. The progress and challenges of achieving this target are the focus of the following interview