Indonesia confirms its endeavor to reduce carbon emissions

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">ArabiaWeather.com- Indonesia is currently seeking to increase its existing pledges to reduce carbon emissions, as a final decision will be taken by mid-September, according to the Presidential Envoy on Climate Change, Ratchmat Witolar.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Indonesia will play a major role in the United Nations climate conference, which will be held in Paris this year, and aims to come up with a plan to mitigate global warming.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Indonesia is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases due to deforestation, agricultural soil degradation and forest fires, according to Reuters.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The international community is putting a lot of pressure on Indonesia, which has the largest economy in Southeast Asia, to stop deforestation and destroy agricultural soils and carbon-rich forests.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">It is noteworthy that Indonesia, which is the largest producer of palm oil and which includes the third largest tropical forests in the world, had pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2020 or up to 41% with financial and other assistance from rich countries.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Follow more on Arabia Weather:</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/ناسا-تنشر-صورا-للحرائق-الضخمة-في-العالم-التقطت-من-الفضاء-الخارجي"><strong>NASA publishes pictures of huge fires in the world taken from outer space.. Watch</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/بالصور-حرائق-غابات-واشنطن-لوثت-الهواء-في-مدينة-كالجاري-الكندية"><strong>In pictures: Washington wildfires polluted the air in the Canadian city of Calgary</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/رجال-الإطفاء-ينجحون-في-احتواء-حريق-مستعر-في-كاليفورنيا"><strong>Firefighters contain a raging fire in California</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>