Liputan6.com, New Delhi – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) attended the G20 India Summit held at the Bharat Mandapam, IECC, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, on Saturday, September 9, 2023. During the first session of the meeting, he explained a number of efforts that steps could be taken to address the increase in Earth's temperature, which is expected to continue to rise over the next five years, in the presence of leaders of the G20 countries.
“Our earth is sick. Last July, global temperatures reached an all-time high and are expected to continue to rise over the next five years. This will be difficult to bear unless the world addresses it decisively. massive and radical,” said President Jokowi, citing a statement from the Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, Saturday (9/9/2023).
Reflecting on this situation, speaking to the G20 Summit audience, Jokowi said accelerating the low-carbon economic transition was one of the efforts that could be made. He estimated that at present, the implementation of emission reduction is still very limited.
“Financial commitments from developed countries remain limited to rhetoric and paper, whether financing climate 100 billion USD per year, as well as financing facilities loss And Shame“, he said again.
Furthermore, Jokowi revealed that currently developing countries need help in the field of green technology and investments to accelerate the reduction of emissions worldwide.
“We are developing countries, we really want to accelerate emissions reductions, but we need support for technology transfer and green investments,” Jokowi explained at the G20 summit in India.