CLIMATE TALK:

CLIMATE TALK:

Reuters

State Minister of Environment Sarwono Kusumaatmadja addresses
the third Conference of Parties on the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan calling for
participants to work together to produce a protocol which would
help reduce gas emissions.

Sarwono said yesterday that since the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, five years ago, little progress has been made in
this area.

He said the protocol should oblige signatory countries to
abide by the agreement in Rio in which countries agreed to reduce
gas emissions.

Indonesia is firmly dedicated to the 1992 Rio commitment of
reducing gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.

During his five-minute speech, Sarwono said that as an
archipelagic country, Indonesia has a strong interest in
preserving a sound environment because it is already directly
feeling the effects of climatic change occurring throughout the
world. (prb)