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Low elevation coastal zones and population density in Jakarta.The city is one of the world's most vulnerable cities to the impacts of climate change.. Due to its geographical and natural diversity, Indonesia is one of the countries most susceptible to the impacts of climate change. [1]
Tiza Mafira is an environmental activist from Jakarta, Indonesia. [1] She initiated the paid plastic bag policy enforced in supermarkets throughout Indonesia, [2] and the Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Movement with various organizations to raise awareness of the harms of single-use plastic bags.
The city is one of the world's most vulnerable cities to the impacts of climate change. Due to its geographical and natural diversity, Indonesia is one of the countries most susceptible to the impacts of climate change. [17] This is supported by the fact that Jakarta has been listed as the world's most vulnerable city, regarding climate change.
[17] [21] In 2010, Jakarta's City Government voiced concerns over the effect of climate change over the city's poor and promised to reduce their vulnerability to climate shocks. [22] However, when it came time to expand Jakarta's current sea wall as part of the Sea Wall project, many kampung settlements (i.e. informal slums) were cleared and ...
A protest was held in Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta with participants from university and school students, members of about 50 civil groups together with children from different communities in Jakarta's suburban areas to voice their increasing concerns on the alarming changes happening to the global climate, demanding the government to ...
Climate change is having and will have further serious impact in the form of rising sea levels. As Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago state, at current rates, rising sea levels will result in 42 million Indonesian households over 2000 islands being at risk of submersion by the middle of this century. [11]
Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the world, but their climate mitigation efforts have been described as not commensurate with the climate risks faced.
The climate of Indonesia is almost entirely tropical. The uniformly warm waters that make up 81% of Indonesia's area ensure that temperatures on land remain fairly constant, with the coastal plains averaging 28 °C (82 °F), the inland and mountain areas averaging 26 °C (79 °F), and the higher mountain regions, 23 °C (73 °F).