Indonesia is capable to reduce green house gas emission by 2.3 gigatons in 2030, or equivalent to 46 percent reduction in 2005.
It was the result of comprehensive study conducted by the National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) with 2005 latest data.
The result of the study was familiarized directly by DNPI executive chairman Rachmat Witoelar in the company of DNPI secretary Agus Purnomo here on Monday.
In that comprehensive study, they analyzed present day green house gas emission and its reduction potential in eight sectors of development with an estimation of green house gas emission in Indonesia in 205 reaching 2.3 gigatons.
If there was no change in the eight sectors of development, DNPI predicted that the total green house gas emission in 2030 would rise by 3.2 gigatons.
The eight development sectors in the study covered peat land, forest, agriculture, energy, transportation, oil and gas, cement and building.
Agus Purnomo said peat land and forest had the biggest contribution in green house gas emission in Indonesia.
Emission from peat land which is rich in carbon contributes 41 percent of total emission in Indonesia in 2005.
Agus said the primary initiative to reduce emission from those sectors was by slowing down deforestation and decomposing of peat land, better management of forest, reduction of land clearance through incineration, and the use of degraded land for aggriculture.
“Now that we have known where we should reduce green house gas emission and its costs, we should no longer discuss it abstractly,” he said.
He explained that one of the most important achievement in DNPI study was to clarify and quantify the importance of land use and transfer of land use in present Indonesian emission map.
