Abstract
Climate change is already causing significant loss and damage, and this issue has only become more urgent. Indonesia as the biggest archipelagic state in the world has faced great challenge of loss and damage due to climate change. Moreover, Southeast Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change as a large proportion of the population and economic activity is concentrated along coastlines; the region is heavily reliant on agriculture for livelihoods; there is a high dependence on natural resources and forestry; and the level of extreme poverty remains high. Vulnerability differs between South East Asia’s countries, however they are not immune from the occurrence of bad impacts. For that reason, regional cooperation is essential to cope with climate change and its impacts. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has stated loss and damage as the actual and/or potential manifestation of impacts associated with climate change in developing countries that negatively affect human and natural systems. Future loss and damage is potentially of unimaginable magnitude. These associated loss and damage now require new approaches that must also consider the challenge of addressing non-economic losses. In 2009, an ASEAN Climate Change Initiative (ACCI) was created to enhance coordination and cooperation in addressing climate change. This article will presents an overview of strategy and mechanism on ACCI as loss and damage response, furthermore, what kind of prospect can be taken by Indonesia. Therefore, it will analyze how such regional cooperation are made possible to be a panacea for climate change problem.
Highlights
Climate change has created a dilemma between what is morally right and what is economically appropriate both for the developed and developing countries
The following the implementation mechanism of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Action Plan on Joint Response to Climate Change:18 The ASEAN is obligated under the ASEAN Climate Change Initiative (ACCI) to provide for a consultative mechanism and process for ASEAN peoples’ engagement in the formulation, implementation, and review of ASEAN climate change policies and stance
With the ACCI as a regional consultative platform, Indonesia can take opportunities for cooperation to prevent and overcome the problems of loss and damage, especially in Indonesia where the risk assessment is still limited to the risk of loss and damage to identify and determine the strategy and priorities for action
Summary
Climate change has created a dilemma between what is morally right and what is economically appropriate both for the developed and developing countries. Many developing countries are seriously threatened by climate change slow-onset processes–sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, ocean acidification, glacial retreat and related impacts, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, salinization and desertification. These processes are exacerbating threats already posed by extreme events and seriously undermine prospects for achieving sustainable de-. The loss and damage concept refers to unavoidable character of extreme weather and slow onset events, which is the impact of climate change. Slow onset events from the perspective of the UNFCCC is defined as an increasing in sea levels, increasing in temperatures, ocean acidification, shrinking glaciers and related impacts, salinization, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity and desertification. ASEAN is a diverse group of countries with varying levels of development
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