The Indonesian government is committed to offset the carbon
footprint for the United Nations (UN) climate change conference to
a level of "carbon positive event," said a press release of the
Indonesian delegation headed by Emil Salim on Wednesday.
It is estimated that the carbon footprint for the UN conference
will be around 50,000 tons of CO2 equivalent, the press release
said.
Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact human activities
have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases
produced. It is measured in units of carbon dioxide.
"We are offsetting the carbon footprint with several trees
planting and timber plantation projects," the press release
said.
The total forest plantation area for this offset is 4,500
hectares, with a total carbon stock of 900,000 tons of CO2
equivalent, it added.
The same amount of offset could be achieved through two days of
Nyepi, or "Day of Silence" (New year day of Hindu Bali where people
are fasting, and lighting fires, working, traveling, entertaining
are restricted), it said.
Indonesia is currently hosting a two-week UN climate change
conference, which kicked off here on Monday in a bid to drum up
support for launching negotiations on a new climate change regime
to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which will expire in 2012.
(Xinhua News Agency December 6, 2007)
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