Description

Indonesia’s first National Determined Contribution (NDC) pledged to reduce emission by 26% on her own efforts, and up to 41% with international support, based on 2020 business as usual’s scenario of emission projection by 2020. Indonesia ambitiously increased these in 2017 with reducing emission by 29% and conditional target up to 41% of the business as usual scenario by 2030. To achieve those goals, Indonesia has enacted its’ National Strategy on NDC 2017. This research aims to depict local regulating efforts in Indonesia’s local governments, and suggest options for NDC implementation at the local level in Indonesia.

The main methodology for this research is identifying climate related regulations enacted by Indonesia’s 34 provinces and 158 districts, and analyzing them based on the 9 indicators set by the National Strategy on NDC.

A research of local regulations conformity to the national regulation, in this case, the National Strategy on NDC Implementation 2017, has never previously been done. There is a big possibility that goals of the national government will be hard to achieve at the local levels because of the lack of understanding, awareness, and communication on the importance of climate change. This research shows only big cities and several provinces in Java have already enacted regulations on Climate Change, which is less than 10% of Indonesia’s local governments.

About The Speaker

Linda is an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty in Universitas Gadjah Mada, the biggest university in Indonesia. She is focusing on international environmental issues, such as Climate Change, REDD+, land issues and customary/adat issues.

Linda has represented the Republic of Indonesia in the UNFCCC’s (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Paris Agreement negotiations in Paris 2015, as one of Indonesia’s negotiators, and one of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) AR6 Lead Authors from 2018-2023.