“We have climate modification technology. This is we can make early rain in order to prepare a pond, so we have enough water to stop a fire,” Mr Luhut told reporters at the sidelines of the Ecosperity Week 2023 conference held at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands.Haze in the Southeast Asian region due to forest fires in Indonesia has been a perennial problem over the past decades.
Last week, the Meteorological Service Singapore forecasted El Nino conditions as well as a positive Indian Ocean Dipole to develop in the second half of the year. This would increase the risk of transboundary haze affecting Singapore and the region due to warmer and drier conditions, it added.in the southern ASEAN region between June and October this year.
Mr Luhut added that his country is targeting net zero carbon emissions by 2055 “or maybe even earlier than that”. He also reiterated the Indonesian government’s goal of getting 10 per cent of the population to use electric vehicles by next year. In March, it announced incentives to entice 200,000 people to switch to electric motorcycles as part of the EV push, as reported by Bloomberg.He made reference to the US$20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership deal that Indonesia recently signed with international partners such as the United States during the Group of 20 meeting in Bali last November.
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