Jakarta –

Ministry of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, said Indonesia’s gross domestic income (GDP) had quadrupled over the past 20 years. However, there are other facts that accompany this. Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions levels have also doubled.

He forwarded this to the agenda of the World Bank event, Climate Change and Indonesia’s Future: An Intergenerational Dialogue.

Sri Mulyani explained that based on World Bank data, Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) or GDP level is estimated to have quadrupled over the past 20 years. The amount increased from $770.87 per capita in 2000 to $4,349.5 per capita in 2023.

During this period, Sri Mulyani said the increase in GDP was directly proportional to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The quantity increased from around 1.3 million tonnes of Co2 per capita in 2000 to 2.1 million tonnes of Co2 per capita in 2022.

“The World Bank shows that by improving income per capita, it turns out that emissions per capita have increased. Emissions per capita have temporarily doubled income per capita has quadrupled,” Sri Mulyani said, Monday (11/27/2023).

For this reason, the government is currently trying to improve the economy without sacrificing the environment due to the amount of exhaust emissions.

Indonesia’s position in per capita emissions is actually even better than that of various G20 countries. Indonesia is in 18th place or the bottom three positions on the list, ahead of Brazil (2.2 million tonnes of Co2 per capita) and India (2 million tonnes of Co2 per capita).

The countries producing the highest greenhouse gas emissions are Canada with a total of 18.7 million tonnes of Co2, Australia, 17 million tonnes of Co2, and Saudi Arabia, 16.5 million tons of Co2.

However, these data are not the reason why Indonesia hesitates to design a national development process that also takes into account environmental sustainability. Furthermore, climate change has become a real challenge that will have to be faced in the next ten years.

“So in the next 10 years, the problem will shift to climate change. And this will be felt by all countries and communities. Indonesia is no exception. The temperature in Indonesia is increasing every year,” he said. he adds.

He therefore explained that the government is now striving to improve the well-being of the population without destroying the planet. Sri Mulyani said that various fiscal policies had been taken to accelerate Indonesia’s economic transformation.

“For 25 years, we have done a lot reforms. Sustain climate programwe use it at the central level, i.e. central government policy through taxes or import duty and other instruments to improve various issues. From electric vehicles industrialization, green energy transformation and the problems faced by a number of sectors such as forestry, agriculture and Waste Management,” he explained.

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