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閣僚級準備会合へのインドネシアNGOステートメント(英語)

 

Statement of Nongovernmental Organizations To
The Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change

24-26 October 2007 (Bogor, Indonesia)

Honourable Ministers, distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen


We, representatives of some Indonesian NGOs, including a coalition of NGOs in Bali concerned about climate change issues would like to share our concerns about climate justice. Indeed Indonesia is an example of a country is already and will be a victim of climate change. We have been accused of damaging our forests that are important for the global community, yet Indonesia is being eyed as a long-term source of raw materials for the aggressive growth of the global industrial complex with no due regard to the recurrent catastrophes and threat to ustainability of our communities.


Many developing countries face the same situation. Who is going to ameliorate the sufferings of these affected countries and people? Clearly, there is a need for a fund for reconstruction, which goes beyond that for adaptation. This is an issue of development and human rights, and that of humanitarian assistance, which goes beyond the charity notions of aid. The answer to this question is that those countries with the greatest responsibility for historical and continuing greenhouse gas emissions who have sufficient wealth that defines their capacity to act.


Hence, for a post 2012 regime, there has to be agreement on the “burden-sharing” principles between the North and South in avoiding climate catastrophe.


Action between now and then must also be governed by the principles of historical responsibility and the capacity to act.


An important issue is whether and how we can find a sustainable development pathway for developing countries that includes not only a climate protection pathway, but also a pathway to improve the living standards of our people and to alleviate poverty within an ecological
framework, and enables new policies for agriculture, industry, trade and finance.


For this, mitigation efforts must be integrally linked to the design of the development pathway. Hence, the following issues are critical ?


* The need for coherence in policies at both the international and national levels. In relation to the international level, policy coherence is critical in the WTO, IMF and the World Bank with the fulfillment human civil, politics, economics, social, and cultural rights as well as with the climate change regime and sustainable development. Coherence should be around sustainable development and climate change and not around trade. This also requires coherence in developed country policies as well.


Instead of advancing such coherence, mercantilist policies are being pursued through the international financial institutions with aid conditionalities, and in the WTO and Free Trade Agreements to open up the economies of the developing countries that undermine sustainable
development.


* How can developing countries put priority in integrating climate change into national policies when international policies and measures exacerbate poverty and inequity, including through the displacement of small farms and firms and loss of access over natural resources to powerful foreign corporations? Such so-called ‘free trade’ policies enhance climate vulnerability as the poor lack the resources to adapt or be resilient to climatic changes.

* There is a need to solve the problem of odious debts of developing countries. The payments of these debts have long been done by damaging natural resources and social support systems of
communities leaving them vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

* Moreover, for developing countries to undertake a mitigation pathway that enables the rapid domestic deployment of climate friendly technologies, requires changes to the way in which technology transfer is managed and governed. Many of us in the south, believe that there cannot be a strict requirement to comply with intellectual property rights thatprofits monopolies if we are to succeed. We must find a way to breakdown the barriers to rapid deployment of clean technologies that the poor can afford.

* It is also fundamental to undertake lifestyle changes especially in the North and among the elites of the South at the expenses of natural resources and majority of poor populations. We cannot afford to maintain the position that the lifestyles of the rich are not up for negotiation. We have to live simply so that others can simply live!

* In relation to the technology options for mitigation, we have very serious concerns over nuclear energy, genetically modified trees, carbon capture and storage and biofuels for environmental and safety reasons. We consider that these are not ways out to combat global warming, but endangering environment and poor populations.


Finally, some final last words. Bali is just a few weeks away. We have reasonable expectation that all of the delegates present at this informal ministerial meeting are going to return to Bali with the least NIMBY/egoistic position of the individual states.


Nevertheless, we should remind ourselves that with our all-out efforts up to COP13 in Bali, we are still using an extremely narrow language of policy and action, way beyond the grasp and imagination of the ordinary people. Beyond the procedural and global action scheduling grids of the UNFCCC since COP13, we must confront the new social and ecological externalities that the fuel-switching and other technological fix formulas we currently are pushing will impose unevenly across the globe, of which we in the South are going to absorp most of the brunt.


The post-2012 is contingently depending on your stance: whether you want to maintain the BAU economic expansion model, or whether you really care to our people back home. The most critical front for Bali and beyond remains whether we care to realize a thorough and meaningful political, economic and fiscal reform in our own country.


Thank-you.

Read by

Farah Sofa/Chalid Muhammad

Friends of the Earth Indonesia (Walhi) On Behalf of Walhi National
Executive Office, Bali Climate Change (collaboration of Bali Organic
Association, PPLH, Walhi Bali Chapter, Yayasan Wisnu, Yayasan Pelangi.
Etc).


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