Measurement of Composites Index on Low Carbon Development Supporting Food Security

Dwi Sartika Adetama,Dedi Budiman Hakim,Akhmad Fauzi,Bambang Juanda

doi:10.3390/su132313352

Abstract

Since the concept of low carbon development (LCD) was adopted at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, Indonesia has been committed to implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, the country issued Presidential Regulation No. 18, which made LCD one of the national priority programs to maintain economic and social through low emission activities and reduce the overexploitation of natural resources. The LCD is a way for the country to overcome the tradeoff between economic growth and environmental degradation. Nevertheless, LCD is a new initiative for Indonesia, so it needs strategic indicators that influence the achievement of development. This paper attempts to integrate macro-regional development indicators that combine each region’s gross domestic product, human development index, and unemployment rate with LCD indicators, including the environmental quality index and g reenhouse gas emissions. The combined indicators were constructed by composite index through the Shannon entropy method, geometric and arithmetic means using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method. The results show significant differences among provinces concerning to macro-regional indicators once the LCD indicators were incorporated. The results of this analysis could be used by policymakers to evaluate the green development of regions.

Highlights

IntroductionEconomic development has so far been based on the pursuit of high economic growth and the exploitation of natural resources
Convention on Climate Change as a commitment of Indonesia to undertake a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), LCD index (LCDI) will provide policy alternatives for achieving low-carbon development in the agricultural sector on a regional scale. Research using this composite index measurement has developed a LCDI that is very useful to be implemented at the provincial level
The measurement method is very simple using data available in the region, compared to the previous method which is more oriented towards sustainable development

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Introduction

Economic development has so far been based on the pursuit of high economic growth and the exploitation of natural resources. This approach can no longer be maintained because it will threaten sustainability, decrease the carrying capacity of resources, and cause environmental degradation. Fauzi [1] emphasized that one of the important problems faced in economic development is determining how to deal with the tradeoff between meeting development needs on the one hand and maintaining environmental sustainability on the other. Development becomes unsustainable if the focus is only on achieving high economic growth. In the process of encouraging a high growth rate, the neglect of the environmental dimension causes a decrease in environmental quality

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