Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s climate-change policies on national scale are rated among the 15 best among the world`s 56 biggest carbon emitters in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), a foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) said.
For its local climate-change policies, Indonesia is ranked one of the six best among 56 countries studied, while for its internnational policies, it is among the 22 best, said Jan Burck of Germanwatch here Friday.
He said the ratings Indonesia had obtained did not necessarily mean that Indonesia`s national and international policies were already very good. "These scores are inidicators that Indonesia`s policies are already better than some other countries` policies but it must still continue to improve its policies in the future," Burck said.
To determine the indice of the 56 countries which produce 90 percent of the world`s volume of carbon emissions, Germanwatch had received reports from NGO-affiliated experts from all over the world.
For information on Indonesia, Germanwatch had relied on the results of studies by two local NGOs the names of which Burck refused to disclose.
"Every year, German watch asks the NGOs for studies and assessments and uses the telephone to communicate with them on things needing clarification," he said.
Burcks said Indonesia was now among the 15 best scorers in the relative CCPI.
"The ranking can rise or drop depending on whether or not other countries have done something better than Indonesia," he said.
Another determinant factor was the fact that Indonesia`s emission potentials are not as big as the developed countries. In addition, the constant improvement in Indonesia`s policies led it to ascend 28 grades above its 43rd place last year. Its CCPI in 2006 was in 36th place.
In 2007, Indonesia`s CCPI score was 57.6 making it one of the developing countries considered to have begun to tackle the climate change phenomenon "seriously."
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