Paris Agreement 2015: Formulating Indonesia’s Efforts and Challenges in Facing Climate Change
853 Interdisciplinary Social Studies, 1(7), Apr 2022
and its effects while climate change can be interpreted as changes in average weather patterns
that occur over a relatively long period and affect the earth's climate globally (Hari, 2019).
The UNFCCC is the governing body that resulted from the organization of the Earth
Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UNFCCC is a form of awareness and agreement of
countries in the world on climate change that can damage the environment and threaten the
lives of humanity as a whole. The UNFCCC aims to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere at a harmless rate in the climate system. In carrying out its duties, the
UNFCCC organizes the COP to take decisions by the relevant parties on the developments and
changes that occur in the face of climate change. Climate change can aggravate various climate
problems that already exist in Indonesia such as floods, long droughts, strong winds, landslides,
and forest fires (UNDP Indonesia, 2007).
The 21
st
COP held in Paris, France from November 30, 2015, to December 12, 2015, has
produced the Paris Agreement. According to Maljean Dobius, the Paris Agreement is a
provision that is a substitute for the Kyoto Protocol so that the Paris Agreement must remain
within the framework of the UNFCCC to control climate change globally (Pramudianto, 2016).
The Paris Agreement is an implementing rule based on the principle of justice under which
shared responsibilities are distinguished and adjusted based on the capabilities of each country
with consideration of the country's national situation. As contained in the Kyoto Protocol which
divides countries into 2 groups, namely Annex 1 countries that are developed countries and
annex 2 countries that are developing countries, in the Paris Agreement against developing
countries that are vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, it is given specificities
related to funding and technology transfer from developed countries.
The UNFCCC through the Paris Agreement has 2 basic objectives, namely to hold the
increase in global temperatures below 2
o
C from the level above pre-industrialization levels
and continue efforts to reduce the rise in global temperatures to 1.5o C above the average
temperature in the pre-industrialization period as contained in Article 2 paragraph 1 letter b of
the Paris Agreement (Zuhir, Nurlinda, Imami, & Idris, 2017). In fulfilling the two basic
objectives of the Paris Agreement, Article 3 of the Paris Agreement provides an obligation for
the parties to submit nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The NDCs are a statement
from one country to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the face of climate
change submitted to the UNFCCC about what contingency will be done. This provision is the
basis for states parties to their contribution commitments in the way of implementation to
control climate change, where the contribution is carried out in each country and must increase
in each period, in addition to developing countries being given specificity with support by other
states parties in increasing such contributions.
The Paris Agreement articulates two long-term emissions objectives: cutting greenhouse
gas emissions as soon as possible to reach peaking or global peaking and neutralizing
greenhouse gas emissions between the balance of anthropogenic emissions and uptake from
sinks and greenhouse gas emissions. The sink is an alternative in terms of decarbonization and
climate neutrality in protecting and increasing the reservoir and storage of greenhouse gas
emissions (Zuhir et al., 2017). Countries categorized as developed countries are given an
obligation that is funding to help developing countries realize mitigation and adaptation efforts
in climate change control, but this is not limited to developed countries and others can also
help with voluntary funding. Indonesia was one of the countries involved from the beginning