MAKASSAR (Antara): Indonesia has been ranked in the fourth position in the list of the biggest contributor countries to the global warming as a result of thehigh level of its forest fires, an environmental affairs official has said.
Deputy State Minister of the Environment for Environmental Communications and Community Development, Sudarjono made the statement on the sidelines of a regional workshop on climate change here on Saturday.
"If forest fires are taken into account, Indonesia would occupy the fourth rank in the list of biggest contributor to the global warming. However, if seen from the concentration of its green house and transportation gas emissions, Indonesia is still in the 13th position," he said.
He said that Indonesian forests, most of which were in Kalimatan and had been seriously damaged as a result of fires in 2005, were recorded at 28.8 hectares.
Countries who care for climate change and global warming have set up a world organization which focuses its attention on saving the earth from global warming.
The organization was formed through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Rio de Janairo in 1992, he said.
Called Conference of Parties (COP), the organization held an annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 which gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, which obligated advanced nations to cut down their green house gas emission to 5.2 percent in the 2008-2012 period.
Sudarjono said that viewed from the green house gas emission aspect, the United States were obliged to reduce its gas emission to 24.2 percent, Russia 17.4 percent, Japan 8.5 percent, Canada 3.3 percent and Australia 2.1 percent.
"Unluckily, not all countries agreed to the Tokyo protocol. Among them are the United States and Australia," he said. (***)
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