BACKGROUND

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established in 1992 as a system for international participation in combating climate change by limiting average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, as well as adapting to impacts that were, at the time, unavoidable. The UNFCCC, which eventually referred to expected “dangerous” human blockages with the climatic system, went into effect in March 1994.

The UNFCCC recognizes all nations’ susceptibility to the effects of climate change and asks for extraordinary efforts to mitigate the effects, particularly in developing countries that lack the capacity to do so on their own. During the early years of the Convention, adaptation received less attention than mitigation because Parties required more certainty about the effects of and vulnerability to climate change. Since 2011, Indonesian climate leaders have been active participants in the Indonesia Pavilion, which was organized and managed by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry beginning in 2015. Indonesia was involved in the negotiations and formation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which it ratified in April 2016. The 2015 Paris Agreement, signed on December 12, 2015 in Paris, is the most recent step in the advancement of the UN climate change administration and builds on the work begun under the Convention. The Paris Agreement defines a new direction in the global fight against climate change. The Paris Agreement aims to accelerate and increase the activities and investments required for a low-carbon future. Its fundamental goal is to strengthen the global response to climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Agreement emphasizes strengthening nations’ capacity to deal with the effects of climate change. 

The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of Indonesia outlines the country’s transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. The NDC depicts the improved activities and the critical empowering environment that occurred between 2015 and 2019, laying the groundwork for more ambitious goals beyond 2020, contributing to the coordinated effort to avoid a 2 degrees Celsius increase in global average temperature and to pursue endeavors to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Indonesia aims to achieve archipelagic climate resilience by 2030 as a result of comprehensive mitigation, adaptation, and catastrophe risk reduction strategies. Indonesia has set lofty goals for sustainability in the production and use of food, water, and energy. These goals will be met by assisting with strengthening and capacity building, advanced provision of fundamental administrations in health and education, mechanical advancement, and practicable characteristic resource management in accordance with good governance principles. Indonesia has committed to moving beyond the 2030 NDC target and toward a long-term low-carbon and climate-resilient development policy. Given the UNFCCC’s history and Indonesia’s 2030 NDC objective, an Indonesia Pavilion at the COP28 UNFCCC is required as part of the country’s role to mitigating the effects of global climate change.

Objectives 

In 2023, the Republic of Indonesia will organize the upcoming Indonesia Pavilion in COP28 UNFCCC with the main theme “Indonesia’s Climate Action: Indonesia Inspiring the World” which also in-lined with the theme echoed by the COP28 UNFCCC United Arab Emirates Presidency “Unite. Act. Deliver”, also with the ASEAN Indonesia 2023 Presidency theme “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth”, and with the Indonesia’s Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030. All of these topics are becoming more prominent in the Indonesia Pavilion’s efforts to go beyond negotiations and toward a more equitable and ambitious implementation of the climate problem in collaboration with all institutions, organizations, and people throughout the world. 

Therefore, the Indonesia Pavilion COP28 UNFCCC arrangement is aimed to realize the theme mentioned previously, which is furtherly categorized to:

1. Organize a soft diplomacy effort to voice Indonesia’s actions, strategies, and innovations to the international community, jointly leading climate action to prevent global temperature increases below 2°C.
2. Become a forum for the promotion of climate change control programs by the Government of Indonesia, together with related parties, in a constructive and integrative manner, including elaborating various efforts that have been made by the global communities.
3. Provide opportunities for all related parties, particularly to explore ideas, and broaden the networks in the context of strengthening efforts to control climate change in Indonesia.

Venue, Date, and Time

The Closing Ceremony of the Indonesia Pavilion on COP28 UNFCCC will be held in Dubai Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Monday, 11th December 2023 from 13.30 to 15.30 AM Dubai Standard Time (UTC+4).

Participants

Targeted participants of the Closing Ceremony of Indonesia Pavilion on COP28 UNFCCC are defined as government institutions, universities and research institutions, non-governmental organizations, international development agencies, academics, private parties, association, and civil society organizations who involved directly in Dubai City Expo, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.