French Embassy Holds Event in Jakarta Concerning Climate Change

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - As the day progresses, we feel the world growing warmer than ever and along the way. We have to witness the undesirable occurrences devastating a large portion of our nature.

The notion of global warming is no longer a tolerable concept as its pejorative repercussions exacerbated overtime with impacts ranging from scarcity of food and water, gradually melting icebergs to other similarly detrimental repercussions that ought to be avoided.

The issue of climate change has now become the predominant focus of many countries with a number of them showing blatant commitment to address such alarming circumstance. The world population has been encouraged to take climate change issue more seriously by presenting actions that largely support the preservation and sustenance of the world and its natural resources.

We are now exactly 50 days away from THE 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP-21) which is scheduled to take place in Paris this upcoming December. The conference sought to raise awareness of global population about the extremely alarming ‘global warming’ situation and determined to encourage them to contribute into the addressing of the issue, by doing even the smallest and the most insignificant things that may have potentially a larger and significant impact to the containment and reduction of global warming fatality rate.

This Saturday, 10 October 2015, The Embassy of France, along with German’s Embassy and the British Council here in Indonesia holds an event at Pasar Santa, South Jakarta called ‘Grrraaahhh! Perubahan di Tangan Kita’ which is very much focused on extending their overall intention on the furtherance of raising people awareness over the potent impact of global warming.

The event held that day includes activities such as writing opinion class with focus placed predominantly on their environmental perspective, waste management, healthy cooking session, the silk screening of used tote bag to spur willingness to recycle, productive movement with the World Wide Fund (WWF) and photos exhibition.

"I am here to show support towards the people who work in the British Council here in organizing such event," British Ambassador to Indonesia, Moazzam Malik told Liputan6.com during the event.

Meanwhile, The First Secretary from French Embassy in Jakarta, Thomas Biju-Duval claims that his presence during the event is a form of support for the protection of environment amidst growing threat from the repercussion of global warming,

"The situations in Indonesia especially the smokes in South Sumatera region shows just how much global warming can damage the world as a whole and so I am here to spur willingness of people to take climate change matter seriously," he said. (Akp/Tnt)