A concern for global warming-set up by British Embassy

it's just a summary of a short discussion back from several months before yet still interesting to be acknowledged...enjoy=)

On May 2nd 2007, Indonesian Student Association for International
Studies hold a discussion in British Embassy of Jakarta. The
discussion is one of the ISAFIS main program under the name of Short
International Studies Basic Course (SISBAC). The topic discussed was
around UK Environmental Policy in Global Warming Era. This discussion
meets students demand of apprehending how UK government acts toward
the global climate change.
By presenting the Draft Climate Change Bill in the UK, Pierce Cazelet
as the representative of UK embassy related to this issue, convince us
about the delicacy of the matter. This aggravating matters could
impact the physical and human geography of the planet and startlingly,
Indonesia being scrutinized as the third country contributes to global
warming damage by its rampage deforestation.
For UK government, 2007-2008 is a critical year in persuading
international partners to sign up multilateral negotiations for our
global concern. This discussion notes several key events in 2007,
starting from March with European Union Spring Council, on June G8
Summit, on September Gleaneagles Dialogue and closing on December with
UNFCCC in Bali, Indonesia.
Amongst European Countries, United Kingdom proclaim to be the first
country succeed in forestalling the adverse effects of global climate
change. Instead of merely stengthening the carbon management in the UK
as the anticipation of the impacts, UK initiates a leverage conduct
internationally as the vanguard for developing countries in
environmental policy.
The draft regarding the climate change bill in the UK emphasizes four
general points to be stressed out by the UK government. First are
about targets and budgets oriented towards carbon dioxide emission
reductions of 60% by 2050 and 26%-32% by 2020, through action in the
UK and abroad. To accomplish this, there should be an arrangement for
five-year budgets. Second is establishing a commitee on climate change
as an independent body to advise government on its carbon budgets and
allocation for its least cost savings. Third is determining enabling
powers by introducing emissions trading schemes more quickly and
easily. Fourth is getting the Committee on Climate Change to report
annually on progress towards targets and budgets followed by the
government to report at least every five years on adaptation.
This draft bill is the UK government next step in environmental policy
after the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012, and so far, this bill was
published for consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny on 13 March
2007 and will be introduced in Autumn 2007.
Instead of thinking the global climate change as solely an
environmental problem, UK Government consider it of being a security
international area because the cumulative impact of climate change
could exacerbate the drivers of conflict and in particular, increase
the risk to those state and regions already susceptible to conflict.
The security risks in the global context e.g. border disputes, massive
migration, security of energy supplies, resource shortages—in food and
water, development failures and societal stress, and humanitarian crises.
Through this discussion, UK instills us deeper thoughts about
environment-oriented world economy. As a matter of fact, the two
things are in conjunction. For developing countries, the first thing
to be lined up is refraining from using the fossil fuels. This thing
however, encourage us to find alternatives for fossil fuels needed by
manufacturing industry which is common in Indonesia.
In spite of idealistic framework of environmental policy UK government
brings us about, we believe that an adaptation of climate change bill
in Indonesia would be strenous because it must deal with many tiers of
government and many sectors of civil society. Even as a mandatory, a
propellent in executing an environmental policy entails the cease of
illegal logging activities. Moreover, lobbying with Indonesian
government does not involve upper level only but also all the levels
of the government.
As for the ever-existence gap of knowledge among society, the
fundamental thing to do is breaching the gap of knowledge about
contriving the environment-oriented industrial programs, either
home-industry or large scale industry such as transnational corporation.
To fetch this point, all the Indonesian people must conjoin their
vision together in preserving their nature of homeland as an effort
–in terms of keeping sustainability of our living by undermining the
threat of global climate change. The discussion in the grassroot level
would indeed be a remaining mediation about how to expound a
technology-environmental friendly utilized in Indonesian industrial
operations.