REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia remains committed to lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent through its own efforts by 2020, and by 41 percent with international assistance, chief of the National Council for Climate Change (DNPi) Rachmat Witoelar said.

"Moreover, our forestry sector has significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions," he said when announcing the result of the 19th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 19 UNFCCC) in Warsaw, Poland.

Rachmat, who is also former environment minister, said Indonesia had appealed to both developed and developing nations to participate in combating climate change by committing themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"Now is the time for the world to show its ambition and act more concretely," he said.

Thos attending the Warsaw meeting agreed to phases of preparations for the COP 21, Rachmat noted.

"Various decisions reached at the COP 19 had laid a firm basis for in-depth discussions in the upcoming years to formulate elements of agreement in 2015," he said.

Indonesia expected all countries to follow up on all decisions reached at the COP 19 by committing themselves to more actively fighting climate change, he said.

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