Businesspeople vow to be energy efficient<\/p>\n
Theresia Sufa, Bogor<\/p>\n
At least 130 businesspeople promised on Wednesday to cut their
\nenergy consumption and support the local administration's energy
\nefficiency campaign to reduce the industrial sector's greenhouse
\ngas emissions by 5 percent by 2010.<\/p>\n
Also promising to cut their energy consumption were state
\nenterprises, regional administration enterprises, social groups
\nand residents during a seminar titled Energy Efficiency that was
\nheld to mark 2004 World Environment Day, which fell on June 5.<\/p>\n
Opening the seminar, Mayor Diani Budiarto said a recent study
\nfound the city's industrial sector accounted for 53 percent of
\nall greenhouse gas emissions in Bogor.<\/p>\n
\"Global warming and declining air quality are now effecting
\nmany parts of the world .... Besides curbing the rate of air
\npollution, the efficient use of energy, especially in the
\nindustrial sector, will also have economic benefits,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The industrial community in Bogor agreed to reduce their
\ncarbon dioxide emissions by cutting the use of fossil fuels and
\nusing others energy sources.<\/p>\n
The head of the seminar organizer, Adi Priyanto, said the
\nBogor administration hoped to develop wind-powered and water-
\npowered energy to replace fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
\"For a start, all of us agreed to cut our use of electricity
\nas 83 percent of electricity in the city is used by the 130
\nindustrial firms,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The House of Representatives approved on Wednesday the
\nratification of the 10-year-old Kyoto Protocol on climate change
\nas part of the country's efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n
However, the protocol does not require developing countries
\nsuch as Indonesia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent
\nbelow their 1990 levels, as it does advanced countries.<\/p>\n
By ratifying the protocol, Indonesia joins 123 others that
\nhave adopted the international treaty.<\/p>",
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