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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya (Jun 3) made an address to the Plenary Session of the Stockholm+50 meeting held in the Swedish capital on 2-3 June, in which she relayed several key points.
The minister first recognized the critical juncture at which the world presently finds itself as it recovers from the global pandemic, noting too that many undertakings concerning international environmental cooperation, including those under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, are starting to be resumed.
Before laying out her main points, Minister Nurbaya emphasized the importance to Indonesia of solidarity and collaboration when it comes to carrying out environmental endeavours.
Firstly, according to the minister, it is imperative that all stakeholders intensify their actions to deal with global crises, including those related to the climate, biodiversity and pollution. It is also vital, she continued, that all available innovations, technologies, knowledge and financial resources are shared and mobilized to fill the implementation gap that exists among countries.
Minister Nurbaya then stressed the great importance of the role of youth as the main collaborators in global environmental efforts, endorsing accordingly Stockholm+50’s idea of affording greater space for youth in common environmental undertakings.
To expand on this, the minister cited recent mangrove rehabilitation programs in Indonesia which have involved joint actions on the part of youth and green leaders, referring to their contributions to sustainable development as instrumental.
Minister Nurbaya’s third key point was to appeal for a strong focus on sustainable and inclusive recovery.
Acknowledging the many valuable lessons that we have all learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said that no single country is able to recover by itself. “Nobody is isolated,” she explained, “because everyone is interconnected.”
The minister pointed out that the theme of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency, ‘recover together, recover stronger’, derives in fact from these principals. She also underlined her country’s determination to push for inclusive and resilient exit strategies that benefit all groups of people and regions without exception.
The minister also fittingly used the occasion to urge all concerned parties to turn commitments into real actions as an indispensable prerequisite for change to take place.
Minister Nurbaya concluded her remarks with an apt quote from the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which also met in Stockholm exactly 50 years prior, asserting its added relevance in the present day - ‘We must use our knowledge to build, in collaboration with nature, a better environment for present and future generations.’
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya (Jun 3) made an address to the Plenary Session of the Stockholm+50 meeting held in the Swedish capital on 2-3 June, in which she relayed several key points.
The minister first recognized the critical juncture at which the world presently finds itself as it recovers from the global pandemic, noting too that many undertakings concerning international environmental cooperation, including those under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, are starting to be resumed.
Before laying out her main points, Minister Nurbaya emphasized the importance to Indonesia of solidarity and collaboration when it comes to carrying out environmental endeavours.
Firstly, according to the minister, it is imperative that all stakeholders intensify their actions to deal with global crises, including those related to the climate, biodiversity and pollution. It is also vital, she continued, that all available innovations, technologies, knowledge and financial resources are shared and mobilized to fill the implementation gap that exists among countries.
Minister Nurbaya then stressed the great importance of the role of youth as the main collaborators in global environmental efforts, endorsing accordingly Stockholm+50’s idea of affording greater space for youth in common environmental undertakings.
To expand on this, the minister cited recent mangrove rehabilitation programs in Indonesia which have involved joint actions on the part of youth and green leaders, referring to their contributions to sustainable development as instrumental.
Minister Nurbaya’s third key point was to appeal for a strong focus on sustainable and inclusive recovery.
Acknowledging the many valuable lessons that we have all learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the minister said that no single country is able to recover by itself. “Nobody is isolated,” she explained, “because everyone is interconnected.”
The minister pointed out that the theme of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency, ‘recover together, recover stronger’, derives in fact from these principals. She also underlined her country’s determination to push for inclusive and resilient exit strategies that benefit all groups of people and regions without exception.
The minister also fittingly used the occasion to urge all concerned parties to turn commitments into real actions as an indispensable prerequisite for change to take place.
Minister Nurbaya concluded her remarks with an apt quote from the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which also met in Stockholm exactly 50 years prior, asserting its added relevance in the present day - ‘We must use our knowledge to build, in collaboration with nature, a better environment for present and future generations.’
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