Q&A: Indonesia Takes Steps to Reduce Emissions – But It’s Not Enough

JAKARTA, Jul 25 (IPS) - Since 2013, the Global Green Growth Institute has been working with the government of Indonesia promoting green growth. IPS correspondent Kanis Dursin interviewed Indonesia Deputy Country Representative Dagma Zwebe about the country's steps in mitigating climate change.The South Asian nation of Indonesia is the world's fifth-largest emitter of greenhouses gases (GHG) and is ranked as the world's second-largest plastic polluter of oceans, just behind China. So when the country committed in the Paris Agreement to limit the rise in average global temperatures to below 2°C by unconditionally reducing its emissions by 29 percent with using its own finances and by 41 percent with international funding, many felt the goals too ambitious.

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