DIMENSI POLITIK DAN SOSIAL PEMANASAN GLOBAL

Abstract

The impact of global warming has been around us. The impact includes sea level rise, sea temperature rise, air temperature rise, increase rainfall, increase evaporation and increase tropical storm. Indonesia is vulnarable to the impact of global warming due to the fact that Indonesia is an archipelagic country with many small islands, has second longest coast line in the world, and has 65 % of population live in coastal area. The availability of water is influenced by climate change and it will affect to agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. Heavy and unregular rainfall, thunderstorm and heat temperature creating flood, landslide are among the phenomena of climate change triggered by global warming. The commitment to reduce CO2 emmission has been declared through Protocol Kyoto in 1997. However, the realization went slowly. Japan has a commitment to reduce its emmission up to 6% but its production of emmision still 8.1%. European countries targeted to reduce its emmission up to 8%. Until the year of 2003, they reduced its emmission at 1.7%. The U.S, the largest producer of CO2 emmission, has not ratified Protocol Kyoto. After world conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia followed up by setting up a National Action Plan and promoting mitigation and adaptation strategies. The issues regarding this strategies are the weakness of coordination among related department, sectoral egoism and big project orientation. Another strategy called energy efficiency is required to promote. This strategy includes the change of behaviour to safe the energy, to use public transportation, to utilize renewable energy, to plant the tree etc. If the environmentally friendly movement is widely done by many people across the country, the contribution to reduce the impact of climate change could be significant.