Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia will use COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye, to advance its energy transition, secure international climate financing, and ensure a fair shift to clean energy that benefits local communities.
Environment Minister Jumhur Hidayat said at a press briefing held by the Government Communication Agency on Wednesday that Indonesia remained committed to global climate action but stressed that emissions reduction efforts must be fair and take the country’s development needs into account.
“Our priorities are energy affordability, workers’ welfare, and protection of local communities. We also oppose unilateral measures that disadvantage developing countries,” he said as quoted in Jakarta.
Jumhur said Indonesia would integrate its efforts to ensure a fair energy transition into the six negotiating tracks at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), scheduled for Nov. 9-20.
The priorities include promoting a just energy transition and expanding access to international climate financing through mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the Adaptation Fund.
Jumhur said the priorities were part of Indonesia’s broader efforts to step up climate action and meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement, as outlined in its Second Nationally Determined Contribution (Second NDC), submitted to the UNFCCC on Oct. 27, 2025.
The Second NDC projects that Indonesia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will peak in 2030 at between 1.35 and 1.49 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Gt CO₂e), before declining to between 1.26 and 1.49 Gt CO₂e by 2035 under different low-carbon development scenarios.
The document sets out Indonesia’s contribution to the Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep the rise in the global average temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Jumhur said.
He added that Indonesia would also follow up on the outcomes of the global stocktake—the five-yearly assessment that reviews collective progress toward achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement—at the conference.
Jumhur also emphasized that Indonesia supported efforts to raise ambition and strengthen the implementation of its NDC, but stressed that greater ambition should not create obligations beyond those stipulated in the Paris Agreement.
Such efforts, he added, must be supported by financing, technology transfer, and capacity-building from developed countries.
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