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Enigin - Japan And Indonesia Determined To Curb Climate Change

Enigin - Japan And Indonesia Determined To Curb Climate Change

Japanese and Indonesian leaders are urging UN climate conference negotiators, currently in Copenhagen, to agree on a deal setting up targets to reduce carbon emissions.

Indonesia is one of the developing countries that could experience the most damaging consequences of rising temperatures. Japan is offering Indonesia a helping hand by proposing low-interest loans worth 425 million dollars, in order to aid the country adapt to climate change impacts.

Financial support will help Indonesia invest in energy efficient technology, through companies like Enigin PLC, in order to save the country's businesses a lot of money and also reduce carbon emissions to reach the targets set.

“We should make certain that COP15 (the Copenhagen talks) will not fail, so we have come up with very bold targets,” says Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama.

The loans, equating to 37.44 billion yen, would “support the government of Indonesia’s efforts for measures against climate change”, according to a Japanese official traveling with the Prime Minister.

These measures include reducing carbon emissions and “strengthening adaptability to bad effects of climate change”.

Enigin are specialists in the field of energy efficiency and supply businesses in all countries of the world with energy efficiency products and solutions, enabling them to reduce their maintenance costs while lowering their impact on the environment. Carbon emissions are cut along with energy bills.

In Indonesia, like in all other parts of the world, the need to save energy is crucial at a time when greenhouse gases emissions need to be reduced to avoid irreperable consequences on the planet. Businesses represent 30% of the global carbon emissions and Enigin are able to provide the most suitable and cost-effective solutions to help business owners abide by newly set emission cut targets, and save huge amounts of money on energy bills (up to 30% and sometimes more).

The Japanese Prime Minster further states that the 2 Asian nations - Japan being a major economic power and Indonesia potentially representing a future power - have established a benchmark for CO2 reduction targets and that they would “cooperate in order to involve the major emitters”.

Japan has the ambition to reduce carbon emissions by 25% by 2020 from 1990 levels, which is the best target set so far by a large, advanced economy, and which also represents the first target to meet the threshold advised by UN scientists to prevent irreversible and catastrophic temperature rises.

Indonesia aims to cut the country's emissions by 26% from 2005 levels by 2020.

Although the details of how these cuts will be reached remain slightly vague, Hatoyama claims the targets are “very achievable”.

Deforestation, for timber production and palm oil plantations, has made Indonesia the 3rd largest greenhouse gases emitter, after China and the US.

The country's need to save energy and reduce its carbon footprint is therefore all the more essential, and switiching to energy saving systems, such as Enigin PLC's, will make widely used appliances become energy efficient - lighting, refrigeration, motors and air conditioning.

The Copenhagen climate summit's outcome is expected to be the issue of a post-2012 pact to reduce the emission of heat-trapping gases that are currently responsible for global warming.

Thursday 10th December 2009