New York (ANTARA News) - Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar called on all countries in the world to work harder to implement the Bali Action Plan agreed on at the Climate Change Conference in Bali last year.
"We should remember that we only have little time, namely in 2008 and 2009 to formulate the four challenges of mitigation, adaptation, transfer of technology and funding, including adaptation funding and illegal logging," Witoelar said at a United Nations General Assembly session on climate change here on Tuesday.
He said both developing and developed countries should work hard to implement the action plan because of the little time left.
The Bali Action Plan is a global plan adopted at the Bali conference to tackle global climate change.
Witoelar said the developed nations should take the lead in implementing the action plan, stressing also, however, that the efforts would only be successful if all parties, including the developing nations, private sector and the peoples of the world, took an active part.
"Developing nations will act more in conjunction with the ambitious commitment of the developed nations," he said.
Indonesia, he added, would keep on playing a role to ensure that all related parties would hand-in-hand realize the commitment to holding a meeting on climate change in 2009.
Representatives from more than 190 countries at the Bali conference managed to pave the way for the formulation of a new framework to repalce the Kyoto Protocol which would expire in 2012.
The Bali Road Map which the Bali conference also produced ackowledged the need to reduce greenhouse emission dramatically, draft a new protocol by 2009 so it could take effect in 2012.
The map obliged the developed nations to reduce their green house emission while the developing nations were asked to do likewise voluntarily.
The developed nations were also requested to transfer environment-friendly technology to the developing or poor nations to help the latter face climate change.
Witoelar also said Indonesia had launched a national action plan (RAN) on climate change in support of the global action plan.
RAN contained guidelines for all parties in Indonesia involved in efforts to cope with climate change.
Indonesia, he said, was now in the process of setting up a climate change center as a starting point to implement the national action plan, facilitate and supervise the utilization of technical assistance from, and the conduct of cooperation, with the international community in efforts to handle climate change.
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